All posts by Michael Perry
Below are all of Michael Perry's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Donaldraw & Wilberttielm:
Please stop posting this gibberish, it is unhelpful. This website is intended to assist people having reception problems and your posts are totally irrelevant and disruptive.
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Barry Elkington:
As MikeB intimates, different TV sets have tuners that vary in sensitivity. Sony tend to be quite sensitive and hence susceptible to overload if the signal is too strong. So that will be more affected by too much signal rather than the other set which is less sensitive.
On your strength bars, you want to be between the middle and about 3/4 of the way to the right. Further to the right is too strong and further to the left (lower) side is too weak.
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Barry Elkington:
You could try fitting an attenuator into the aerial lead feeding the Sony. They are avauilable from a number of sources including Maplins, RS, Amazon, etc and are quite inexpensive. Try a 6 dB one first and then check whether you can get all the channels again. If not then check the signal strengths of the 'missing' channels again. If they are still to strong try adding a 3 dB in series, but if they are too weak replace the 6 dB with a 3 dB. You could try a variable attenuator but they are nbot always reliable in my experience.
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Lois Goff:
I'm sorry I don't understand your garbled message. Please post in standard English.
If you are asking a question of the Drama channel, please direcrt you qiestion to them as this website has no connection with them at all.
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Tony Royston:
Please give a full post code so that we contributors cvan see what the signal reception is likely to be where you are located. You could be using one of more than 1000 transmitters and we can't tell which without the full post code.
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Nev Jack:
Further to that said by MikeB, the government have no say in these frequency changes at all. If you want more bandwidth for mobile signals the transmitter operator has to change the usage of several chennels to free up the frequencies above 700 MHz, meaning many of the TV signals have to be moved to make room for the 4G or future 5G signal usage.
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John:
Either your TV has failed or you have a serious aerial problem. It will not be a transmitter fault as they are always resolved as quickly as possible, usualy just a few hours at most.
If you have a friendly neighbour, see if your TV works on their Freeview aerial system. If it does, then your own aerial is faulty - get an aerial contractor to check it out. If it does not work than that proves the TV is faulty.
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Monday 22 January 2018 9:44PM
NigelB:
Freeview TVs usually have a facilty to check which channel they are tuned to and what the signal strength is. This will be detailed in your User Manual.
So please check the signal strengths and especially for COM 7 on channel 33 (570 MHz). Ideally you need signal strength to be between 60% and 85%, not more and not less. If you have more then look at "Too much of a good thing" on this website. If you have less then, as MikeB suggests, check all your cables are in perfect condition, correctly plugged in (always unplug and refit) and there is no damage. If you still can't get a reliable COM 7 reception then check whther your aerial is suitable for channel 33 (it should be if it is for Crystal Palace).
Could you also provide a full post code so that we contributors can check whether there are any known issues in your area.