All posts by Michael Perry
Below are all of Michael Perry's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Kerry Beck:
It is operated by Arqiva and is nothing to do with this independent website that offers reception advice.
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Andy:
Further to that said by StevensOnln1, having signal strengths as high as 90% or more is cause for concern as it is too high. Note that this refers to signal strength and not signal quality. Many TVs and PVRs do not respond well to such a strong signal and display the effect your describe. So you may need to try reducing the signal strength, the ideal is between 60% and 85%.
So firstly check all your aerial cables and plugs to ensure they are in good condition and clean. Then, if the signal strengths are still so high, obtain some coaxial attenuators, they are available in different 'strengths', and tray the lowest numbered one first. Use an additional fly lead so they are two between the wall socket and the TV. Then insert the attenuator in that lead so that the weight of it does not 'hang' on the aerial sockets. Then check the strengths again. If needed, swap the attenuator for the next higher numbered one until the strengths are all below 85%..
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Briantist:
Please can you urgently take a good look at what is happening on your website. Firstly, and most annoyingly, there are a number of 'people' posting totally inappropriate junk on several pages, especially on those for Winter Hill and ITV, but there are many on other pages. These all need to be removed as some are of objectionable nature and all arw inappropriate.
Secondly, please can you update the individual transmitter pages to reflect the recent changes as it appears to be confusing people. I know there are more changes due, and that the Digital UK website (http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/) gives the details, but it seems that few people bother to provide a full post code so don't get to see that information.
Thanks for the website, I still like to contribute and help the many non-technical viewers who are having reception problems, etc.
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Linds:
There was engineering work overnight at Hannington, look at the Transmitter Engineering post below yours.
Retuning at that time was very bad idea. If there is no signal there is nothing for the TV to tune too! All you have achieved is loosing all your channels you had before. Only perform a retune when required, not whilst engineering work is being carried out. Now that that has finnished, for today at least, you should now retune.
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Paul Bale:
Closing Channel 4 HD on Freesat was a purely commercial choice by Channel 4.
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R G Heath:
Put your full post code into www.digitaluk.co.uk (http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/coveragechecker/main/index/dummy/NA/yes)and it will show you the coverage and any engineering works current of planned.
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Mike Bacon:
Alternatively to that correctly said by StevensOnln1, pout your full post code into the Digital UK website at www.digitaluk.co.uk and check which transmitter you are using and what channels it is currently using. It wall also tell you what channels will be used in the next few years as well as the correct aerial type.
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Michael:
All you need to do is have the aerial changed for a wideband type. That will receive all the current channels being transmitted plus all the foreseeable future ones as such an aerial cover *all* the possible range of channels.
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Roger Milbery:
Tropospheric lift is a well known phenomenon during hot weather with a high pressure system nearby. It has been known about since at least the mid fifties but is more noticable on UHF transmissions rather than VHF (BBC1 405 line was Band 1 VHF and ITV 405 line was Band 3 VHF). Previous 625 line transmissions were all on UHF, as are all the Freeview signals nowadays. It is not unusual to find signals that normally only travel 50km are able to be received, and viewed, 150km or more away! Whether the source of your current signal problems is from the mainland Europe is hard to tell - it could be from any direction that is 'visible' to your aerial. In the current weather conditions do not retune.
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Monday 16 April 2018 12:33PM
Gareth:
Mendip uses 6 multiplexes, see Coverage Checker - Detailed View for details.