All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Iain Girling:
To add to the previous, Lark Stoke is now listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible service interruptions".
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Leslie Stacey:
Oxford is now listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible weak signal", so there's obviously been some sort of issue.
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Paul:
Depending on your exact postcode, you could possibly pick up 3 other main transmitters in addition to Emley Moor. Check each of your multiplexes is correctly tuned to Emley Moor's UHF channels as listed in the post before yours.
If you are correctly tuned, you mentioned an 18 element aerial, if this is an older Group B aerial as originally used by Emley Moor, then the SDN multiplex may not be received as strongly, likewise the ArqA multiplex, you may need a Group T (or Wideband) for optimal reception, especially for COMs 7&8.
If you have all these things then, as I can find no reported faults by the BBC or Freeview I'd suggest you check all your coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads are a common problem, try swapping/changing them. Also check that your downlead looks undamaged (especially if it is old) 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.
Also check you have no HDMI leads near poorly screened flyleads/aerial leads as these can cause interference.
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Lorraine Foster:
Well I'm not sure where he got that information, but at worst it's a load of cobblers, at best it's misleading, normally he shouldn't have any problem receiving the BBC channels, but there was a fault reported by the BBC From 5:49am to 6:03am on 30th Apr 2020 PSB1/BBC A Slightly reduced power due to a fault.
It may be worth that he checks in his TV tuning section, that he's tuned to the correct UHF channels for Llanddona, these are C40, C43, C46, C41, C44, C47 in the order PSB1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB HD, SDN/COM4, ArqA/COM5, ArqB/COM6
To be clear, the Main BBC Channels would be on multiplex BBCA UHF channel C40.
It's possible to be inadvertently tuned to the Winter Hill transmitter on UHF C32 or C50 where there is transmitter work currently listed.
If he's not sure how to check this, the easiest solution may be to unplug the aerial and carry out an automatic retune which should clear all previous tuning as no channels are found. Plug the aerial back in and repeat the automatic retune which will hopefully restore all channels correctly.
If there are still problems, please post back with a full postcode.
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Kenneth Lock:
Last year Sony moved a number of their channels to Local Multiplexes see Channel listings | Freeview
There is a Local multiplex broadcast from Tacolneston with a Local station - That's TV East https://www.thats.tv/norfolk/ which is at LCN7 in your EPG. It is beamed towards Norwich from the transmitter, so unless you live to the NE of Tacolneston and/or are close enough, you may not receive the multiplex. It's on UHF C32, you could try a manual tune on that UHF channel.
The UHF channel list at the top of this page is out of date as the site owner has not had time to update many pages with all the 700MHz clearance changes. The full current list is as follows -
C40, C43, C46, C42, C45, C39, C55, C56, C32 in the order PSBs1-3, COMs4-8, Local.
Note, satisfactory reception of COMs7&8 and the Local multiplexes will depend upon your location.
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Steve:
The BBC have reported a fault - From 6:22pm to 7:15pm on 1st May 2020 BBC A Off the air due to a fault.
You should find your reception is now restored.
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Roger Barber:
As there are over 1100+ transmitters in the UK, I doubt the site owner has time to read every page and probably reads very little here at present, hopefully some of the important detail resulting from the 700MHz changes will get updated. Transferring the data from OFCOM pdf documents is a manual task and I don't envy him the job.
Apart from Angel Vintage which is in Mono, and Brooklands Radio, Cheesy FM, HealthInfoRadio & Weather24/7Radio which are DAB+ Stereo HE-AAC v2, the rest are standard DAB Joint stereo.
As mentioned in the previous post it's Block 8A 195.936 MHz.
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Terry Squire :
If/when you return to the Shropshire coverage area, see https://www.arqiva.com/re….pdf you find the Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury and Telford multiplex on Block 11B: 218.640 MHz, there's some information at Wolverhampton and Shropshire multiplex and DAB radio coverage Arqiva
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Monday 27 April 2020 1:34PM
Andrew Popple:
To add to the above, Angus is now listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible weak signal".