All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Alan Clerk:
Once again? When was the transmitter down recently/previously?
There was Planned Engineering the last week of August and the 1st week of September when the transmitter would have not been off air continuously although there may have been an odd day when it could have been off for a few hours during that period. I can't find any other reports of problems or issues.
Carno is a Freeview "Light" transmitter which only broadcasts the PSB multiplexes and doesn't broadcast the 3 COM multiplexes as you point out. This is normally because the commercial broadcasters don't consider it commercially viable to pay for the extra equipment needed etc due to the small number of households covered by the transmitter..
Perhaps you should consider getting Freesat for a much wider choice of channels. A lot of modern sets have built in satellite tuners so all you would need is a Dish and LNB.
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nick :
No you can't use the channel 3 times over. The + & - offsets are there to help reduce co-channel interference in cases where the possible propagation path is probable under more typical "lift" conditions when it's not been possible to allocate other UHF channels. With over 1100 transmitters in the UK (never mind considering interference from outside the UK) the frequency planners must have had one hell of a job even with "clever" software!
How exactly it works, neither of us are certain.
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Tony1234:
As you mentioned in your first post, Quality was zero and occasionally blipping. With zero, there wouldn't be no reception of a single TV channel on that mux, even if it appears in the EPG, because if so it obviously got tuned when Quality wasn't zero and was high enough for the set to decode the channels at the time.
Good luck with the manual tune, it shouldn't be a problem.
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Andy:
See the post immediately before yours.
Angus is the correct (and only) transmitter that you are predicted to get signals from.
You are 18km from it and the aerial should point at compass bearing 132 degrees (just fractionally E of SE) with its rods (or squashed Xs) horizontal. You have clear line-of-sight to the mast and should have good reception in normal circumstances assuming your aerial installation is upto scratch.
Check that the aerial looks intact, is pointing correctly, that the downlead isn't flapping in the wind, and that your coax plugs are ok with no corrosion or water.
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Janet Hignett:
AFAIK there is no way to catch up on Sky's Freeview channels. Looking at the guide for Sky Mix and Sky Arts for the last 7 days, none of the past programmes are available. There may be a way if you are a Sky subscriber, but I can't help there.
They didn't add Sky Mix to NOWTV Entertainment as they did Sky Arts so no direct way there either.
However, not all programmes are Sky exclusive, or Sky original and those programmes may be available elsewhere, you could try searching by programme if that's the case.
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Callum Precious:
Well, I'm afraid without a full postcode, the approximate direction (compass bearing) that your aerial is pointing and whether its rods are vertical or horizontal, also some details of a selection of channels that are affected and what the problems are, no-one will be able to help.
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Stuart Manson:
A fault has been reported according to the latest data from the BBC but Arqiva never provide details of such things as it will take time to get an engineer on site, discover and remedy the fault.
The fault reported is "From 10:35am on 30th Oct 2023 BBC A Off the air due to a fault"
Now the timing of that is after your post above which suggests the possibility of another problem if your neighbour hasn't been receiving the BBC channels for a while. When did she stop getting them?
Were you getting them prior to 1035?
The was a previous fault reported 3 days ago
From 3:44pm to 6:51pm on 27th Oct 2023 BBC A & BBCB HD Off the air due to a fault, along with the DAB & FM faults, that one suggests the whole transmitter may have been off-air (the BBC don't report on the ITV/C4/C5 channels) perhaps due to a power cut!. Have you been receiving other channels ok? have you had any power cuts in the area today?
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Stuart Manson:
Service was restored at 1.46pm.
The fault report comes direct from BBC Engineering.
From 10:35am to 1:46pm on 30th Oct 2023 BBC A Off the air due to a fault
Long Mountain had no reported faults.
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Phil Charlton:
As listed in the post at the top of this page (208), Bilsdale is still subject to Planned Engineering.
Work was continuing to finish the installation of the DAB antenna, and the FM and Local TV antenna were only installed a few weeks ago but not in service at that time.
Whilst Planned Engineering is continuing, that is the most likely explanation for No signal for the COM muxes when you checked.
I'm fairly sure that the FM services are now operational on the new mast, but DAB transmissions are still on the temporary Bilsdale Tower.
The Local multiplex is on UHF C30 but it's still being transmitted from the Eston Nab site.
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Friday 27 October 2023 11:17PM
Gary Greensmith:
Yourservice should now be restored. The following was reported -
Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 27 Oct 15:44 until 27 Oct 18:51
Arqiva never provide details on such things, even with Planned Engineering. When there are faults, it will take time for an engineer to attend the sire and that could be dependant of engineer availability as well as any other problems elsewhere.
There were power cuts in parts of the SY17 area which may have been the cause.