All posts by Michael Perry
Below are all of Michael Perry's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Pete Forman:
A number of people have complained that their Panasonic device will not record. I understand that Panasonic are aware of this problem but have not issued any solution as yet.
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Ian:
This website is managed by Briantist and he has been made aware of the need to update the channel data for all the Freeview transmitters.
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Albert Honey:
You should be using the Oxford transmitter. From personal knowledge, the signals from there are good in almost all of Faringdon. Have a look at Coverage Checker - Detailed View which will tell you what transmitters are possible and give you the channels to tune to.
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Guys:
This website is not at all interested in football nor anything not relating to TV signal reception. Please stop spoiling this service for others having reception problems.
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K Gardner:
Further to that said by fellow contributors above, you may need to change your aerial to a wideband type to enable recepotion of all available channels. If you look at thwe digital uk website with your postcode, Coverage Checker - Detailed View you will see that a wideband aerial is now recommended and it also shows the actual channels being used to broadcast the TV services. (Note that these are not the same as the Logical Channel Numbers used to identify each broadcast service, such as BBC 1 on LCN 1.)
You may qualify for some assistance, you can check by contacting Freeview on their website at www.freeview.co.uk/tvchanges or by ringing them on 0808 100 0288.
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Me At Home:
Please provide a full post code so we can see what the predicted receptions is at yiour location.
You can also use the Digital UK website (http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/) to search for useful information, such as the actual channels being used and future changes expected.
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Roger:
Please perform a retune after removing the aerial connection from the back of the TV set. Then refit the aerial plug and perform another retune. Finally check which channels are being received and check the channel numbers against those listed at Digital UK | Home for both Crystal Palac e and Hanningtomn to check that you are tuned to the correct transmitter.
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Moz:
That you are missing some channels when using a set top aerial is not surprising as they are very ineffective unless you are really close to the transmitter mast, typically less than 5 km away. The sollution is to have a wideband aerial fitted either on the chimney stack or in the loft if it can get a clear view of the transmitter and without any water tanks, etc in the line of view.
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Dan T:
Highly unlikely as COM 7 and COM 8 are temporary service transmissions. Sometime in the next few years when all transmissions use the DVB-T2 encoding they will be removed as the newer HD system can carry more channels.
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Saturday 21 April 2018 12:36PM
Alan Goss:
Please check the signal strengths reported by the TV sets, especially the Sony. They are known to have rather sensitive tuners and if the signal strength is too high it will report 'No Signal'. Ideally you want between 60% and 85%, no less and no more - you do not want 100% signal strength ever.
If the signal on the Sony is above 85% that is the cause of your problems. It needs to be reduced using coaxial attenuators. They are available in different 'strengths' from 3dB up to 24dB. I you need then I#d suggest getting a 3, 6 and 12 dB and tring each one, the lowest numbered one first. Use an extra fly lead so the weight of the attenuator does not 'hang' on the aerial input sockets.