All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
aytch:
What you need is something like this eBay item 264646940009 but can I find a new one or similar by a different manufacturer at a "sensible" price!! These things used to be widely available, two a penny!
In that example you can remove the existing "leads" and connect your aerial and downlead coaxes directly to it.
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aytch:
OK, found this https://staks.org.uk/prod…uhf/ nice low insertion loss.
Don't know if they'll supply retail, give them a ring (0)28 9146 9136
With a bit of luck they'll send it Royal Mail 2nd class, total inc postage may be under 10.
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Susan Rutherford:
I suspect the post after yours is the explanation, but there's been Planned Engineering listed for the transmitter all week.
If you've retuned whilst the transmitter was off-air, it may well have cleared correct tuning. However to be sure you don't have any incorrect tuning, unplug the aerial and do an automatic retune which should clear any previous tuning as nothing will be found. Plug the aerial back in and repeat the retune. Hopefully all channels will be restored correctly.
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Roy Johnston:
BBC Newcastle is as mentioned here on the Tyne & Wear multiplex. Sites that transmit this multiplex that you may be able to get are Kenton & Morpeth, but it could be hit and miss in your area. If you are in the vicinity of North Rd., Berwick Hill Rd, or the central area you may not get it. Whichever transmitter, it's on block 11C, 220.352MHz
If you go to Problems with DAB radio reception | RTIS and put your postcode and house number into the boxes, it should show you which transmitters you might get and what reception is predicted to be like.
Other useful sites for DAB are https://getdigitalradio.com/ ukdigitalradio: Home
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helen:
It's on DAB 11B (Bournemouth), 11C (South Hampshire) so depends where you are.
Useful sites for DAB are https://getdigitalradio.com/ ukdigitalradio: Home
You can put your postcode into those sites and they'll tell you what you should be able to receive.
It's also available on the internet Wave 105 Live | Listen Again | Online Player
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Brian Gilbraith:
This is a free independent help site for those with reception and technical problems.
Apart from the fact that the site owner has not had sufficient time to update every transmitter page with the current and remaining changes resulting from the 700MHz clearance programme (bear in mind there are over 1100+ transmitters in the UK) virtually all the sort of information you mention is available either on the various transmitter pages, or elsewhere on the site via links given on various pages.
Where it isn't, or where up-to-date information is needed where this site is out of date, on most transmitter pages, recent posts will provide the correct information. eg. here for Winter Hill have a look at some of the posts from 12th January onwards (p189) and in a lot of cases you'll find links to Freeview site pages where a lot of the current information is given.
Non technical people are able to (and usually/very often do) ask questions, they don't have to understand every bit of information here, explanations can be provided if needed, and very often are by most of the regular posters here.
As for information such as "The more technical may wish to know that the channels are 8MHz wide" I think you will find that not only is that information available elsewhere on the site, there are many places on the internet you can find it, but the technical people posting here (or even reading) already know that! Granny does not need to be told how to suck eggs.
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Margery McWhirter:
If you are receiving your signals from the West Kilbride transmitter then you should be getting perfect reception as you are only 0.7km from it. Your aerial should be pointing almost ESE (a few degrees S of E) with the rods vertical. However, the transmitter has had poor quality since the 20th until the 28th, and there's been Planned Engineering as mentioned on the West Kilbride transmitter page, and you aren't the only one that's been having problems - have your neighbours had problems too?
If it's this transmitter you normally get, and your box has retuned it may be tuned to the wrong transmitter, so to be sure, unplug the aerial and do an automatic retune which should clear any previous tuning as no channels will be found. Then plug the aerial back in and repeat the retune and hopefully your channels should be correctly restored.
You say you've had the aerial checked, did that include the coax cable from the aerial to your box? If the cable hasn't been checked then it could be water getting into it causing problems. If that's all ok, and you are still having problems, describe your set up in more detail. Does the aerial lead go to a socket on the wall and a flylead to the Youview box and another to the TV set from the Youview box? Or does the aerial cable go directly to the Youview box, or through a splitter etc.?
If your aerial is pointing NNE (rods vertical) at the Rothersay transmitter, there is a hill fairly close which is in the way of the signal and you won't get reliable reception.
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Keith:
We'll need a full postcode to look at the predicted reception at your location. However, there has been Planned Engineering at Crystal Palace with "Possible Weak signal". I'd be surprised if that's still the case since 1600, but if you retuned when not receiving a signal and haven't since, it will have cleared the correct tuning, so try another retune.
You say "new setup" do you mean new aerial and cable or new TV etc.?
Other than that, 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 other 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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Thursday 27 February 2020 11:51PM
Anthony:
There's no 700MHz Clearance changes listed for the transmitter, or any power changes, still 37W apparently!
It could be that changes elsewhere have resulted in a little less co-channel interference and so slightly better coverage. Whether it remains like that, time will tell.