All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.johnjohnson:
Depending on your precise location you may be able to receive several main transmitters, without a full postcode it's not possible to confirm which ones.
If at any time, for any reason, you had loss of signal or badly pixellated signals, whether due to temporary weather conditions, transmitter engineering or faults and you retuned, it will most likely have just cleared the correct tuning. You should never retune when you have any loss of signal.
If you did so, you could have ended up incorrectly tuned to weak and unreliable signals from another transmitter.
There are no current faults or current or recent Planned Engineering listed for Pontop Pike.
But in any event, check for loose connections on your aerial plugs, at the back of the set or any other equipment. Check your aerial is still pointing in the correct direction and the rods (or squashed Xs) are horizontally polarised.
Check in your TV's tuning section that you are tuned to the correct UHF channels for Pontop Pike -
In the multiplex order PSBs1-3, COMs4-7, Local - they are C39, C42, C45, C32, C34, C35, C55, C33
Whether you actually get COM7 or the Local Multiplex will depend on your precise location.
If you find you are incorrectly tuned, often the best bet is to unplug the aerial and do an automatic tune to clear any existing tuning (as no channels should be found), then plug the aerial back in and ideally do a manual tune for the UHF channels listed above, if you can't do that just repeat the automatic tune.
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Adrian Appley:
Just a note to say that this isn't Ch.5's website, so they are unlikely to see your comment here. Visiting their website (as per link at the top of the page) Home - Channel 5 and contact them by one of the social media links at the bottom of that page would probably be best.
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Rob Stamp:
I can't access your full post atm due to a system error, but if what I can see in "Your comments" listing is your whole post then I'll base my comments on that.
Firstly, Forces TV - LCN96 is carried on the COM7 multiplex, not everyone can receive COM7 for a variety of reasons, but you should also be missing other channels on the COM7 HD multiplex if that's the case. See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for the list of which channels are on which multiplex.
Are you missing channels like BBC News HD (107), BBC Four HD (106) for example?
Secondly, Crystal Palace is currently listed for Planned Engineering with the effect of "Screen may go black on some or all channels" which is essentially a service interruption
If you can normally receive COM7 then do NOT retune as this normally just clears correct tuning if there is no or badly pixellated signal..
If you do not know if you can normally receive the COM7 HD multiplex, we can't offer any reception advice/comment without your full postcode to check predicted reception.
If you normally get it and If you did retune and are not getting any COM7 channels now (but are receiving the other multiplexes OK) then in your TV tuning section try a manual tune for UHF C55 for COM7. You may have to try several times if engineering is affecting the signal. We don't know when this may be happening as Arqiva don't publish that detail!
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Rob Stamp:
I can now view your post normally. No further comment to add without feedback from yourself.
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RONALD MCKENZIE:
The simple answer is yes, possibly. However, I can't find any reports of any current or recent faults at Rosneath by the BBC or Freeview and it hasn't been recently listed for Planned Engineering.
Depending on your location, you might be able to receive other transmitters and if you retuned at all if there was any brief interuption due to weather conditions etc., you might have inadvertently got tuned to the wrong transmitter. Check in your TV's tuning section that you are tuned to the UHF channels listed at the very top of the page. Those in the 5 Sep 2018 listing lower down are not up-to-date.
If you are correctly tuned, check that your downlead looks undamaged and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction. Also 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.
Aerial mis-alignments, problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just AN individual or several multiplexes.
If you've altered anything around in your installation, check that you don't have any HDMI leads close to any aerial or flyleads, especially if the aerial and flyleads aren't high quality double screened types. HDMI is known to sometimes cause interference.
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Annabell:
Yes. LCN49, but It's carried on Local Multiplexes, and not all areas have a Local multiplex, only those main transmitters serving large conurbations.
Also all Sony channels have just been rebranded to Great! See Sony general entertainment channels rebrandingtoGREAT! | Freeview
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are carried on which multiplex.
If you aren't sure which multiplexes you can receive, we'd need a full postcode to look at predicted reception and which transmitter(s) and Multiplex(es) you may get.
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DOUG:
Can't find any current or recent listed issues with the Craigkelly transmitter and it's not been listed for Planned Engineering recently. As you probably know, you shouldn't have any problem with reception from Craigkelly.
Sounds like it would be a good idea to check out your installation.
Check that your downlead looks undamaged and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction. Also 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.
Aerial mis-alignments, problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just AN individual or several multiplexes.
If you've altered anything around in your installation, check that you don't have any HDMI leads close to any aerial or flyleads, especially if the aerial and flyleads aren't high quality double screened types. HDMI is known to sometimes cause interference.
Other than that, if the issues start at the same time of day everyday, then it could be interference. Check your signal strength and quality (or error count) figures when you don't have a problem and compare to when there is a problem. If you find the quality figures drop, then consider what electrical equipment that you or near neighbours, or other premises may have that's coming into use at that time (including lighting).
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Andrew Marsden:
It's quite likely that you were actually getting the ArqA multiplex signal which carries Sky Arts from another transmitter and you are no longer getting it, reasons could be various.
It depends very much on precise location as to what transmitter(s) and multiplexes you might get. We can only advise on that with a full postcode to look at predicted reception.
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StevensOnln1:
Coverage along a lot of that North Devon coast is a bit dismal. You'd be lucky to get anything in Lynton if Arqiva's coverage map is anything to go by https://www.arqiva.com/re….pdf
Mendip's coverage may just about struggle into Minehead, but anything further west isn't that likely.
I'd have thought (my guess) that the saving in running cost (never mind maintenance) of the MW transmitter would be enough to help fund a DAB Local mux on a few of the Freeview Relay masts along that area!
Berrynarbor, Countisbury, Porlock, Carhampton, Woodcombe to name a few possibilities, further in land is Exford. Not considered which might give what coverage, I expect michael will have a better idea.
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Wednesday 19 May 2021 12:33PM
Dunkeld
Russell Cobban:
Additional information - If the site postcode is PH8 0JR the aerial should be pointing at the Dunkeld transmitter 3km away, bearing 102 degreees that's 12 degrees S of due E.
The Dunkeld Town transmitter (bearing 34 degrees - slightly N of NW) is not predicted to give good reception of the PSB1&2 multiplexes as it's very lower power even though it's closer (1km).