All posts by Michael Perry
Below are all of Michael Perry's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Michael:
Please tell Arqiva as they operate the transmitters. They are nothing to do with this website which is entirely independent and intended to assist viewers having reception problems.
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Mathew Crouther:
Please provide a full post code so that we can see the predicted reception for you location.
Also check all the aerial cables, unplugging nad refitting any connections. Could you also check with your neighbours who use Freeview to see if they have the same problems.
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Mathew Crowther:
You should be getting good reception on all 8 multiplexes from Oxford as you areo nly 24km away.
I suggest you unplug your aerial from the TV and perform a full retune. Then refit the aerial plug and do another full retune. That should restore all your channels. If not, then perform a manual tune using the channels shown as current at Coverage Checker - Detailed View which is correct for yopu location.
Note that you should have a wideband aerial as the original Group C/D aerial does not cover all the available channels. If you do not have cable or satellite you may get a wideband aerial installed free if you contact www.freeview.co.uk/tvchanges and look in the FAQ section. Or ring 0808 100 0288.
Note also that there is another retune event scheduled for 23rd May 2018 and you will definitely need a wideband aerial to get all the available channels then. The listing at Coverage Checker - Detailed View shows what the new channels will be after than retune.
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Bjorn:
Please check your aerial cables and connections. They are the usual cause of the symptoms you describe. There is no reported problem at the transmitter - if there were thousands would be complaining but they are not.
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Allen Cousens:
Further to that said by StevensOnln1, an indoor 'set top' aerial of the type you describe were always dubious for reception and often very unreliable, especially as you moved around the room or anyone next door moved around nearby. Traffic often caused serious disruptions as well. So 'set top' type aerials are not a good answer at all. It is better to do as StevensOnln1 suggests and have a wide band aerial fitted free-of-charge if you qualify (no cable TV service and no satellite system).
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Graham:
Lok at the posts immediately above and below yours. That should give you a clue.
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Tim Forsuthe:
Look at the blue box at the bottom of your posting titled 'digitaluk trade' (http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/coveragechecker/main/trade/SO40+8DZ/NA/0/) and then look at the expected reception from Rowridge.
That shows that currently your location gets variable coverage of the SDN, ARQA, COM7 and COM8 multiplexes, even though you are only 28km from the transmitter. It also shows that from April next year reception of COM7 and COM8 is expected to improve. Further, it shows that COM7 and COM8 use channels 55 and 56 - which is way outside the reception ability of any Group A aerial. So you need a good wideband aerial fitted. So go ahead and talk more firmy with the Freeview service on 0808 100 0288.
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Tnlywlnlayy:
This website is NOT about football so please stop wasting our time, and yours, with irrelevant junk. It is ONLY about TV reception problems.
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Tony James:
It is free to view compared to the likes of Sky. You have to have a TV Receiving License to view *any* live TV but you do not pay the broadcaster to allow you to watch whatever is available, unlike on Sky where you have to pay a subscription to watch any of the programming carried on their satellites, apart from the PSB channels which are 'free'. Your license fee goes into a government coffer and is paid out to run the BBC. So Freeview and Freesat are free to view once you are licensed to be allowed to view any available channel broadcast on those two services.
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Sunday 6 May 2018 1:06PM
David Leaworthy:
You clearly have either a fault with your aerial system or else the TV has a problem. By retuning you have made it more difficult to determine the cause of the problem. A full post code would also help as then we can see what your predicted reception is like at you specific location.
Start by manually tuning your TV into the channels used by Rowridge. Some have recently changed and you need to have a wideband aerial to get them all again. You need to tune to channels 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 55 and 56. It is these latter two that require a change of aerial as an 'old' Group A aerial cannot receive them. If you TV can tune to them but still not show any channels you need the TV checked. If you cannot tune to those channels, then yopu have a fult in the TV tuner system.
Your licence fee would not be watsed money if you can receive any TV services live on-air, it is onpy if you use catch-up services that in some curcumstances you may not need a Television Broadcast Receiving Licence.