All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
richard:
The good news is you aren't stuck with it. According to the Freeview detailed coverage checker, you should have no problem receiving all the multiplexes from Emley Moor - that includes the Local multiplex which carries Leeds TV at LCN7, 3 Sony channels at LCNs 48, 50, & 60, and Children's channel Tiny Pop at LCN207.
My suspicion about your problem would be confirmed if you did not previously get this Local mux before the retune on the 23rd October when it was previously on UHF56 now moved to UHF39. The multiplex carrying BBC4 HD is COM8 (HD) which moved to UHF56. The other temporary HD mux COM7 is due to move to UHF55 on date just announced Feb.5th 2020 along with COMs 4&5 (SDN & ArqA) moving to lower UHF channels 33 & 36.
If you got the Local mux before Oct.23rd, then a retune should resolve the issue, but done as follows - unplug the aerial and do a retune, this will clear all previous tuning. Plug the aerial back in and again repeat the retune. This should restore all multiplexes and channels.
If you did NOT get the Local mux before Oct.23rd and now not getting COM8, then this is probably because you've got an old Group B aerial, do you know (roughly) how old your aerial is?
With the changes you'll need a Group T / Wideband otherwise you probably also lose COM7 when it moves (carries BBC News HD & others).
If you have an old Group B then providing you don't have Satellite or Cable TV you should get free help by contacting the Freeview Advice line on 0808-100-0288 where they should be offering to send an engineer to replace your aerial with a Group T / Wideband which is what you'll need to have satisfactory reception of all multiplexes.
Having said that, I've heard of cases where they aren't providing the free help because it's not the main BBC channels that you are having trouble with - those on PSB1/BBCA and PSB3/BBCB HD. You MAY need to try ranting on a bit about losing BBC4 HD and you'll be losing BBC News HD along with others with the next change.
Hopefully it won't come to that and they'll send an engineer to replace your aerial without a problem.
If you post back about your aerial there maybe other advice that could be offered.
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Ha, it seems nobody beat me to a post whilst i was typing my detailed reply and doing other things!
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Bert Leslie:
The Dover transmitter (nor any other not transmitting COMs 7&8) will never be upgraded to transmit them. They are temporary multiplexes currently scheduled to be closed by 2022 but that will depend on the auctioning of the small frequency band in which they sit for 5G SDL services. The frequencies immediately above and below are already allocated to 5G (hence the current 700MHz clearance program).
Whilst Dover doesn't serve all parts of the Canterbury area, eg. towards Chartham which has a Relay transmitting only the PSB muxes, there's no other major transmitter officially covering Canterbury.
The only (Meridian) transmitter in the region that I can think of that carries COMs 7&8 is Bluebell Hill. There is also Crystal Palace (London region) but you are going to need to be quite high up (and most likely N of locations like Tyler Hill, Blean, Rough Common etc) to even stand a chance of getting them. In essence it depends on location and a full postcode would be needed to look at the predicted reception. Even them you will need a really clued up aerial installer to provide you with an installation that'll give reliable reception.
The best alternative would be Freesat. If you have a very modern HD (UHD even) TV, it may already have in in-built satellite tuner so you would only need a dish and LNB. But watch any planning conditions, parts of the area will be "Conservation" areas and there can be restrictions.
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Jimmy:
I'm not sure if you misread the list above but Channel4+1 is on 15 and is on the D3&4 multiplex which you should be/are getting. I haven't checked the accuracy of the listing for other channels which may be out of date here as the site owner has not kept up with all changes.
Information about Film4+1 (LCN45) & More4+1 (LCN86) may be out of date in various places as they have moved last week multiplexes to ArqA/COM5 & COM7 respectively, which are not broadcast from "Light" transmitters. E4+1 (LCN28) currently on ArqA/COM5 is due to move on the 14th but no details have been provided by Channel4 or Freeview.
This list Channel listings | Freeview should be the definitive list as to which channels are on which multiplex, but at time of posting it has NOT been updated for the Film4+1 and More4+1 changes !!
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Barrance:
Your favourite search engine would have given you ITV Logo but specifically see ITV Logo help
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John H:
Yes it has been amalgamated into the Freeview site and a very sloppy even bad job has been made of it, and some of the issues that I would have expected to have been fixed quickly have not.
The only old link that redirects correctly is the channel listings, but here is some links that will provide most of the useful information
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free corporate/platform-management/700mhz-clearance">What is 700MHz clearance? | Freeview
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free service-updates">Service updates | Freeview
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free corporate/platform-management/planned-engineering-works">Planned engineering works | Freeview
Freeview seem incapable of providing decent fault information so check this site (BBC) -
Welcome to BBC Reception Advice | Help receiving TV and radio or Advice about receiving TV and radio | RTIS
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free corporate/platform-management/channel-listings">Channel listings | Freeview
For the Coverage Checker -
Go to Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free scroll down the page to the box "Check Freeview at my home" and enter your postcode and house number/name. Scroll down the following page where available channels are shown in "tiles". Below the initial block there is a "down arrow" if not all are displayed. But if you are only interested in one group of channels click on that button on the top row.
If you scroll down just after half way down the page, there is a button "Detailed view". If you click on that it will show the predicted reception of transmitters and multiplexes that may be receivable at your location.
It's not currently possible to get/derive links for specific postcode predictions but there's a long winded work around for a given postcode. At the top of the Detailed View page there is a button for "View Region". If you select that (for the region for the postcode) it will give a url with postcode (and house number if provided) which is of the form -
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free help/coverage-checker/detailed-view/west?postcode=bs35%202yj&address=80
To get to the predicted reception for that address, scroll down the page slightly and click on "Summary view". Scroll just over halfway down the new page and click on "Detailed view". It will now display all the transmitters and multiplexes that are predicted to give some reception at your location.
The only advantage I can see for this method is so others might be able to look at exactly what you've looked at, because otherwise they may as well check for themselves using the instructions in the previous paragraph.
NOTE: The Yorkshire Region information is not working at time of posting and wasn't last I checked when it was DigitalUK. (The pdf for Yorkshire clearance events wasn't working either last I checked!).
It does seem that Region pages can be accessed from a cut-down of the above example link, eg. -
Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free help/coverage-checker/detailed-view/west
For other regions, replace "west" with the relevant region name eg. central, wales, etc.
However I have discovered some inaccurate information on some of the above pages.
HTH.
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Dave M:
A lot of the Sony channels were moved by Sony back in the summer to Local multiplexes.
See Channel listings | Freeview
If you receive a local multiplex on LCN7 then you should get them.
I did not think that there was a local multiplex transmitted from Sandy Heath but one listing I've seen suggests that there may be a Cambridge one on UHF35. You may/may not be able to receive it at your location as it will be low power compared to the main multiplexes.
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Gordon:
Thank you for your information and I'm glad that you are getting good reception with your set-up. If this is the version with the amplifier that automatically adjusts the signal level output, then it clearly will have some useful advantages in some locations.
BUT these aerials have a very high windage, so I wouldn't recommend them except in circumstances where there are no other reliable options nor in very exposed areas subject to frequent high winds.
I hope yours is mounted securely on a high quality pole and if it is on a chimney you have a quality lashing kit properly fixed otherwise you could quickly end up with damage to your chimney.
I would also point out that it is possible to get good "gain" from other installations using an aerial of lower windage whose gain is around 12-14dB and a masthead amp whose gain can be upto 25dB giving a potential total gain upto 39dB.
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John:
Well since you were receiving the COMs 7&8 multiplexes previously then I would be telling the Aerial installer to come and sort it out. Is the aerial accurately pointing at Black Hill, don't want it pointing slightly towards Darvel!
My suspicion would be that this is a gain issue. Bearing in mind the gain of the aerial you had previously, I would have initially gone for the larger log-periodic, a log 36, but did you have a "booster" previously, I haven't spotted any mention? You mentioned your receiver showing signal strength 97 previously and now getting 74 on COMs 7&8. What strengths are showing on the other multiplexes?
Is the booster external or internal? Is the 4G filter one built into the aerial or an extra one?
Although you say your log periodic has 14 elements, it's actually a log 28 - each element on each side of a log periodic is counted a one element. BUT because your predicted reception is very good, it might be a case of having too much signal, so the log 28 may be sufficient or need attenuating. If it's too much signal, it's odd the other multiplexes are ok
If it's a problem with insufficient signal, even with a log36 you might still need a decent masthead amp with adjustable gain.
I'm wondering if it's the directional qualities of the log periodic that's got rid of your aircraft issue or the lower aerial gain.
If the 4G filter is internal, I'd try unpugging it to see what difference it may make to the signal strength 74.
Likewise, if the booster is internal, what happens to the signal on all multiplexes if you take it out?
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Saturday 9 November 2019 6:08PM
Susan Allen :
Movies4men has been renamed by Sony to Sony Movies Action and is still on LCN40 on the SDN/COM4 multiplex except in Wales where it's not available.