All posts by Michael Perry
Below are all of Michael Perry's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Rikki:
The only possibility is to use internet services. The terrestrial TV signals for Freeview are not receiveable anywhere away from the coast of northern France in the Pas de Calais. However, you may be able to get some services via Freesat, using a dish and satellite receiver, but that also depends on location.
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Bruce Wells:
The symptoms you describe are those of an aerial system that has poor connections. I suggest you check all the aerial connections as far towards the aerial as you can safely reach. It is likely that there is either a problem with the cable itself or some poor connections along the way.
Since you have retuned, you need to check that the TV has tuned to the correct channels. Look at Coverage Checker - Detailed View and use the channels shown there for Whitehawk Hill. Also check that your aerial is a wideband type so it can receive all the available channels (your original group C/D type will give poor reception of several channels). Also check that it is aimed correctly at the Whitehawk Hill transmitter, which is at a bearing of 70 degrees from your location and only 1 km away. As you are so close, check what the reported signal strengths are, you do not want 100% but between 60% and 85% is ideal. If the signal is too strong that can also cause the symptoms you describe. Search for 'Too much of a good thing' on this website for ideas on how to deal with strong signals.
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Darren:
Contact the organisation rthat is responsible for managing your flats. They are also responsible for the aerial system that may now need adjustments since the frequency changes recently.
Many communal aerial system have filters to remove what was originally unwanyed signals, but they may well now be filtering out some wanted signals - hence the need for attenion to the system.
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Dave:
Try unplugging your aerial and then doing a full retune without it. Then plug the aerial back in and do a retune. It is sometimes the case that the software that runs the set will not save new data until the 'old' has been removed.
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M Davis:
No need for such unwarranted comments. I susopect the owner of this website is current unwell.
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Justin France:
I suggest you ask Forces TV themselves as this website is independent of all broadcasters and is intended primarily to assist viewers with reception problems.
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{Peter Glidden:
How are you feeding the TV sets with the signals from the aerial? Are you using a pssive (unpowered) splitter? Or are you using a powered splitter (with a mains supply)? Also check what signal strengths are being reported by the sets. It needs to be between 60% and 85% for good reception. If it is more then it's too strong. If it's less then it's too weak.
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S Evans:
Firstly, if you want 'true' Freesat (as opposed to Freesat from Sky) you will need to have the LNB on the dish changed as a Sky Q LNB is not usable for anything other than Sky Q box, plus you will need a Freesat box. I have not yet tried getting Freesat from Sky using a Sky Q box, so I don't know what will work. Perhaps some other contributors know?
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Paul Bale:
One reason is that most TV sets start on the first channel when you switch it on. That means people see BBC1 in SD by default. Bear in mind that many people are not technically minded and don't grasp that HD means better picture quality but they have to select different logical channel numbers on their TVs. Talking to my neighbours revealed that most did not know that BBC1 HD is on LCN 101, BBC2 on 102, etc (but often the regionalisation on HD is not local enough). Some cannot receive those because their TV is not Freeview HD capable, it may be an older set or merely be HD Capable (which only means the display screen can show 1080P but not that it has the required DVB-T2 tuner to get the HD transmissions. Many people are used to the idea that buying a TV set is something they only do occasionally with several years between purchases, in many cases they wait 7-10 years or more before replacing an older TV. Then consider how listings magazines show the channels. Most only give the SD LCN and not the HD ones (at least in all the ones I've looked in). So inertia is one reason and lack of information in a simple form is another.
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Monday 30 April 2018 1:03PM
JS:
The curly brackets are extraneous, read it as if they are not present and it makes perfect UK English grammatical sense. Why they are showing I don't know.