All posts by Michael Perry
Below are all of Michael Perry's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Stephen Hopps:
Depending on what your current signal strength is, a booster could actually make matters worse!
The information given on the Digital UK Coverage Checker for your location (see Coverage Checker - Detailed View suggests thatBelmont is the better bet, with Waltham, Tacolnston and Sandy Heath either very poor to useless. The signals from Belmont will provide decent reception, but will include Yorkshire services rather than East Midlands or East Anglia.
Belmont needs a wideband aerial for full reception.
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Andrew simms :
Bridlington is far too far away from any transmitter carrying Radio Derby.
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Tyreena Brooks:
You should be asking Pick or Freeview that question, Pick is run by Sky. This website has no connection with any broadcaster and is intended to assist people having technical reception problems. It does not appear that there is a streaming service of Pick, so that suggests it would not be possible to view on you tablet computer.
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Jane Oates:
There was some work done on the Brecon transmitter on Friday of last week. That means you should have had a retune message on your TV. If you have not retuned, then I would suggest you do that and then check what channels you now receive.
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Oliver Taylor:
The License allows you to watch live TV progreammes and the Catch-up services on the BBC iPlayer. That is irrespective of how many channels you can receive. Therefore there is no reduction in the License fee payable.
The technical organisation used by the BBC does not currently allow for local/regional programmes to be distributed in HD, most local studios are not HD equipped. Hence all local news and programming is in SD. That will be the case until the BBC find some way to obtain the necessary funding to upgrade all their systems - that will be extremely expensive to accomplish.
Note that you don't directly pay for the commercual channels as they are funded through the advertising that they carry, hence they are more able to fund the technical improvements they want to provide. You still need a TV License to watch their programming though.
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Norma Dale:
Do you mean ypu're having problems with DAB recep[tion? They did some work on the Caradon Hill DAB transmitter yesterday - see the posting above yours.
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Mr D Beresford:
The channels used by the Watham transmitter are as per you final list, the earlier listing you give is incorrect. Use the Digital UK Coverage Checker at Digital UK - Coverage checker to determine the correct current channels used.
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Gill:
The first thing you should do is to check all your aerial cables and connections. Unplug the coaxial plugs/sockets and then refit (oxidation of the plug contacts is a common cause of the loss of channels you report).
For many years before Freeview, TV aerials were designed to receive only part of the spectrum available as the transmitters were set to use a small group of the available channels, for example, the Crystal Palace transmitter used to use just channels 23, 26, 29 and 32. Hence you used an aerial that matched the 'group' of channels being used, the aerials being designated for group A, B or C/D. Nowadays the main transmitters use 6 channels (usually) but they are often more widely separated so that some use the lower channels as well as a couple of the higher channels and hence the 'old' type of 'grouped' aerial is no longer appropriate. You need to use a wideband aerial, which covers the whole range of channels being used and not just some of them.
Without your full post code we have no idea what the reception conditions are at your location so we cannot provide any more detailed advice. It is often the case that aerials in a loft gove poorer reception than one mounted externally, often on a chmney stack or similar. The tiles and roof structure will absorb some of the signals, especially when it is raining or the roof covered in snow or ice.
As fitting a better aerial is not just a case of putting it in place, I would advise you get a proper contractor to fit and adjust a good wideband aerial. You can look up local aerial contractors on the Confederation of Aerial Installers website at Aerial Installers trade association - Confederation of Aerial Industries
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Margaret Lyons:
I suggest you aim your comments at the broadcaster, see Untitled Document
Tis website has no connection with any broadcaster and is entirely independent.
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Sunday 19 May 2019 10:45PM
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The USB socket is only there to allow yopu to record programmes onto either a USB stick or a HDD connected via USB. It will not do what you are imagining as the software is not designed to allow that.