All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
bryan:
Without a full postcode, we can't see what the predicted reception might be at your location, never mind which transmitter you might be receiving. It's possible that your LG's tuner may not be as sensitive as your Humax, but there may be other issues. What happens if you connect the aerial directly to your LG?
If your problems have arisen directly after one of the recent transmitter frequency changes, it's possible your aerial may but unsuitable to satisfactorily receive the multiplexes on their current UHF allocations. If so, depending on circumstances, you may be entitled to free help.
In the meantime please check all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads can be a common problem, try swapping them. See what signal strengths (if any) and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section, this might indicate potential issues with your aerial or downlead. Also check that your downlead looks undamaged and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
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StevensOnln1:
I had similar thoughts about the LNB, or maybe it or the Dish have moved out of alignment?
Out of curiosity, are you able to list those FTV channels that aren't FTA?
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Bob B:
Glad it's all working OK now then Bob, let's hope things remain stable.
As for Marketing people, they always say things like that, generally without having a clue :o
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Mr Julien Helme:
Further to MikeP's comment and mine immediately prior to your post here, the information is not only is in error but incomplete. There is some further detail and information about the local muxes posted on p187 on the Winter Hill transmitter page.
All:
To get what should be accurate and up-to-date information about UHF channel usage, and any planned UHF channel retunes or reception changes whatever transmitter you receive - the best place to look is the official listings on the Freeview site (now that the digitalUK site has been merged into it).
Goto Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free and scroll to the box "Check Freeview at my home", put in the postcode and house number/name and click "Check".
On the new page, amongst other things, you should see a mention of any Planned work Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free corporate/platform-management/planned-engineering-works
also whether there's any current transmitter issues - I've not always found the latter to be 100% reliable.
You can get information about BBC reception issues at Advice about receiving TV and radio | RTIS
On this new page, scroll down just over half way and click "Detailed view".
You'll now see a list of any transmitters and their multiplexes that are predicted to be received at your location.
(The most likely transmitter is not always the one you want, often based on nearest transmitter with good PSB1&2 reception. Just scroll through the list. Local muxes are usually at the end of the section.).
You can hover over some of the information to get more detail/explanation, eg. hover over a channel number will give the transmission mode and the power in kW.
For which channels are on which multiplex see Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free corporate/platform-management/channel-listings
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free service-updates is a page worth keeping an eye on.
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John-Claud Lau:
Further to MikeP's post and mine immediately prior to yours, yes, BBCB HD should be listed on UHF C30.
However UHF C35 is not COM8, it's the Local multiplex L-LON which amongst some other channels has London Live.
COMs 7&8 are on UHF55&56 and you should have no trouble receiving them at your location, reception is predicted as Good.
If you are not receiving these temporary HD multiplexes, it's likely that you are still using and old Group A aerial, and a Wideband /Group T is need to receive all multiplexes satisfactorily. COMs 7&8 moved to those UHF channels back in March 2018.
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Fred:
Without a full postcode we can't say what your predicted reception might be. There maybe nothing wrong with the aerial if you are getting the main BBC and ITV channels.
Did you used to get the missing channels? You appear to be missing the 3 COM multiplexes SDN, ArqA & ArqB.
Have you changed anything lately?
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Mr Julien Helme:
The relevant information has been covered in many posts on the Winter Hill transmitter page.
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Huw Radley:
Both the BBC and Freeview(DigitalUK) predict Good reception of all multiplexes at your location. But that does assume a suitable externally mounted aerial. If you have an old Group A aerial, you'll struggle with the COMs 7&8 multiplexes or not get them (BCC News HD etc.). As David Warner says, loft aerials can suffer various weather issues, never mind signals being obstructed/reflected etc by objects like water tanks, solar panels, walls etc.
If you have an external Group A aerial you should be fine with the other multiplexes.
However, if this is happening at exactly the same time each night (day), then as StevensOnln1 says this is likely to be interference. For those times you have quoted it looks to me like the off-peak times of Economy 7. So have you or a next door neighbour got Economy 7 and probably with Night Storage heating or some equipment timed to run during the cheap rate time like a washing machine tumble drier etc.? If it's just storage or some other Heating then there may be a bad connection, something arcing. I would get investigating.
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Saturday 14 December 2019 3:59PM
Kif:
Without a full postcode, it's difficult to come to any conclusions about reception at your location as reception of the muxs from Bluebell Hill can vary somewhat across the ME10 postcodes.
I assume you've done obvious checks such as checking all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them, flyleads can be a common problem, try swapping them.
Just a reminder that problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes. Whilst it looks like the possibility there may have been/still is a transmitter issue and depending on the nature of the problem if that latter, it may take several days to resolve, it's nevertheless prudent to ensure you don't have any latent issues in your own installation.