All posts by Michael Perry
Below are all of Michael Perry's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
:Jane Evans:
There are no analogue channels broadcast now, they were all turned off in 2012. All television transmissions are now digitally encoded and have been since at least 2012 or before. A good read of the Sky Eye User Manual should help.
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Keith webb:
The changes made at Rowridge a few months ago meant that you need to have a wideband aerial fitted. Then you may be able to receive all the available channels. To check that we need a full post code so we can see the predicted reception at your location.
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Neil Robbins:
This is not the website for transmitter engineering. Further, that feature has not been working for some weeks at least.
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Brian Oliver:
Please provide a full posy code so that we can examine the reception conditions at your location.
There are n o reported propblems with the transmitter at Westwoo, Bradford-on-Avon. So please check all you aerial connections. If there are plugs/sockets please unplug and then refit, that will clear any corrosion/oxidation from the contacts.
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Hi Briantist:
I got 68 emails Saturday but the first 37 were all 'empty'!
I know you have a lot of catching up to do as every transmitter page has what are now incorrect channel information and several of ther programmes have moved too.
The system for sending emails has had a problem as I didn't get any emails at all for almost two weeks, so had to rely on the 'Your latest comments' option at the top of the page - I'm sure I missed some of the comments too. Didn't get any fresh email Sunday either.
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Alan Granley:
Normally you need a Freeview HD equipped television or set top box. If your equipment is described as Freeview HD then it can receive the HD programmes providing you have a wideband aerial, changes to the transmission channels earlier this year meant that the older Group A aerials are unable to receive any of the HD channels provided on the COM7 and COM8 multiplexes. (An HD Ready television will not receive the HD transmissions as the description only applies to the screen capability.)
If you also give a full post code we can check the expected reception conditions at your location and advise accordingly.
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peter foster:
Please provide a full post code so that we can examine the predicted reception conditions at your location. Then we may be able to offer some meaningful advice as we have no idea which of the over 1100 transmitters you are trying to use.
Please also check what the signal strength reported by your television is for each of the multiplexes it is tuned to. Having too much signal can cause apparent loss of channels, seach for 'Too much of a good thing' on this website.
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Mike:
If you look at the results of your post code in the Digital UK Coverage Checker at Coverage Checker - Detailed View you will see that reception of the ARQB multiplex is expected to be variable and that COM8 is predicted as not being available from Waltham. However, all eight multioplexes are predicted as being good reception from Sutton Coldfield. If you have a wideband aerial you could turn it towards a bearing of 212 degrees and retune to the Sutton Coldfield multiplexes on channels 43, 46, 40, 42, 45, 39, 55 and 56. If you require East Midlands news, etc, then you may need a second aerial and a coaxial switch to swap between West Midlands from Sutton Coldfield and East Midlands from Waltham. You may be lucky to get some Waltahm signals via a back lobe on your aerial, but not certain.
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Peter Trayte:
You will need to ask Arqiva and the BBC. Arqiva operate the transmitters and arrange the transmissions, The BBC would have to pay for BBC South to be transmitted from Crystal Palace. I would have thought that BBC South would not have been available from Crystal Palace but it is available from Hannington, so were you really getting it from Crystal Palace? Or from Hannington?
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Friday 23 November 2018 3:49PM
Marion:
Further to that said by Briantist, Freesat is free to watch, all you need is to have a suitable dish installed and a decent Freesat receiver - there is no subscription required.