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 Goss:
Hi. It will depend on where you are within a postcode where the terrain is hilly, it can be very variable over short distances. On balance, with a good aerial, Heathfield is likely to be better looking at the figures. Tunbridge Wells is a very low power transmitter.
Still no reports of any problems!
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Arthur:
Arqiva should have completed the work at Emley Moor today on behalf of Freeview. All multiplexes have now moved to their final UHF channels. (The list at the top of this page is out of date as the site owner has not had time to make all the changes to all the transmitter listings).
The multiplexes that were on UHF C51 and C52 have now moved, COM7 has also moved from C32 - this was the whole point of the retune!
Emley's Multiplexes & UHF channels are now as follows, in the order -
PSBs1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB HD, COM4/SDN, COM5/ArqA, COM6/ArqB, COM7 HD, COM8 HD, & Local
C47, C44, C41, C33, C36, C48, C55, C56, & C39.
I'd suggest that you unplug your aerial and carry out a retune which will clear all previous tuning as no channels will be found.
Plug the aerial back in and carry out a retune, then check your multiplexes are correctly tuned to those UHF channels. If not repeat, the initial clearance and then retune manually to those UHF channels.
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Richard caywood:
What local news programmes were you picking up on each set before today?
For the Upstairs set, I wondered whether you've got PSBs 1 & 2 mixed up. As for the other channels there's something of a mystery, except C51 & C52 are the old Emley COMs 4&5, and C48 is now Emley COM6.
I think first I'll list the Bilsdale ones for you in the same order as I've done for Emley in the previous post for Arthur.
Bilsdale C21, C24, C27, C43, C46, C40, C55, C56, C30. You can ignore the HD & Local ones C27, 55, 56 & 30.
As for the other channels I can't find any transmitters that you are likely to pick up with those numbers!
Maybe start with the Upstairs set, unplug the aerial and do an automatic tune to clear memory of all previous tuning.
Then carry out a manual tune for each of the Bilsdale UHF channels and see what %Signal & Quality you've got for each multiplex.
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David Levitt:
Have you lost BBC channels as well? Have you retuned - I assume you saw the pop-up on screen messages that will have been posted over the last few days notifying of a retune on the 5th.Feb.?
The PSB1/BBC A & PSB2/D3&4 have moved UHF channel to C31 & C37 respectively. The other multiplexes remain on C29, C43, C46 & C40. There are no further retunes planned or reception changes indicated for this transmitter.
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Jane:
Well that is slightly odd, the transmitter should have been back on air early afternoon on the 5th. But there are reports from the BBC for twice on the 5th for different (overlapping) timeslots, I'm wandering if the 2nd entries are in fact for today 6th Feb. In any event the transmitter should have been back on the air since 1.08pm if it applied to today.
The another retune, first with the aerial unplugged which will clear all previous tuning as no channels will be found, then with the aerial back in again. If you are manually tuning, the UHF channels are C39, C45, & also C42 for the BBC B HD multiplex if your set does HD.
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Dave Bates:
Your other post hasn't disappeared, it's there on the Emley Moor transmitter page. As you've provided a postcode, I'll answer it over there. Not sure where this "It was apparently only outputting at 5 KW from a "local" transmitter" came from, virtually all Local transmitters & Relays do not transmit COMs 7&8 at all, Sheffield is the only one locally that did and COMs7&8 there have now closed since the muxes at Emley have now moved to their final channels C55 & C56.
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Andrew:
All Emley's UHF channels are as I detailed them in my post yesterday at 7:48pm
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Dave Bates:
There was no retune at Emley in December, the previous one was 23rd October and the transmitter power was reduced to 47.86kW, but that small difference shouldn't have made any difference, it's more likely to have been the effect of the channel change from C34 to C56.
For your postcode (picked up from your other post), you should have no problem with any of the multiplexes from Emley, so yes, a new aerial may solve the problem, especially if your "oldish loft aerial" is a Group B with 10 or 14 elements and not a larger wideband or Group E, although a Group T aerial will do, a Group E might be better as it should have slightly better gain unless you have a more elaborate Wideband/Group T.
Do you know what aerial you have at present, how many elements it has (describe if need be)?
It's also worth checking its alignment which should be bearing 187 degrees, that's 7 degrees W of due S at your location.
It might also be worth you checking that you are correctly tuned to all Emley's UHF channels as listed in my post yesterday at 7:48PM.
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Charles Hill:
The Drama channel is on the SDN multiplex, see Channel listings | Freeview and that is on UHF C25 from Stockland Hill. If your other missing channels are on the same multiplex then there is probably a fault which may/may not be short lived. I can't find any listing of a fault at this time, but that doesn't mean there isn't one!
If the problem persists, if you visit their website as given in the link towards the top of this page, you'll find a "Contact Us" link for UKTV at the bottom of that page where there's a phone number listed. Whether it's manned at this time of day, I don't know.
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Wednesday 5 February 2020 4:03PM
Alan Goss:
The Meridian region has some Planned Engineering but Heathfield is not one of the ones listed and the BBC are not reporting any problems affecting any of their channels.
There is purportedly some predicted "Tropospheric Ducting" around at present with the high pressure which might be affecting your reception if you normally don't have a strong signal - but a full postedcode would be needed to see what the Freeview predicted reception is likely to be at your location.
If you have retuned at all, you could have lost some of your correct tuning and you will have to retune as conditions change (maybe more than once) and/or if/when the transmitter comes back on air if there's a fault not yet notified.