All posts by Michael Perry
Below are all of Michael Perry's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Malcolm:
The same satelites as previously is still being used, as suggested by StevensOnln1. If you have moved your dish you will need to recalculate the required azimuth, elevation and skew using the orbital position of 28.2 degrees East (the satellites are actually over the Equator above East Africa.
I know that spme of the radiation patterns used do not cover the south of Europe very well. Check for the patterns on the Astra website.
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Ken Baker:
Looking at the Digital UK Coverage Checker, it would appear that you may be better off using the Charmouth transmitter and not the Weymouth one, see Coverage Checker - Detailed View A Group B or preferably a wideband aerial is needed for that transmitter.
This website does not operate any transmitters as it is entirely independent from all broadcasters or service providers. The transmitters are operated by Arqiva who can be contacted at https://www.arqiva.com/co…us/.
Meanwhile, please check all your aerial cables and connections, unplugging all the coaxial plugs/sockets and refitting them. That will clear any possible corrosion/oxidation from the contacts, which is a common cause of problems such as you report.
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Colin Faulkner:
If you look at the Digital UK Coverage Checker, at Coverage Checker - Detailed View you will see just how problematic your location is. Winter Hill is a poor choice and Bilsdale may be a better option and possibly worth trying. They both need either a Group A, a GroupT or a wideband aerial. So you could try turning your existing Group A aerial to a bearing of 50 degrees instead of 221 degrees. Then a manual retune to the channels provided from Bilsdale: 26, 29, 23, 43, 46, 40, 31 and 37.
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Pat Wilkes :
Ypu would do better to ask the broadcaster that themselves. They are very unlikely to see your question here as this website is totally independent of all broadcasters.
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Barbara Searle:
A signal strength of only 46% is rather low, ideally you want 60% or a bit more - but not more than aboput 85%. If you would give your full post code we could look up the expected reception at your location. You could also check that your aerial cables and the plugs/sockets are in good condition. You should also unplug each coaxial plug/socket and then refit it.
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Simon:
To tell you what frequency to tune to for That's 80s means we need to know which of the over 1100 transmitters you are likely to be using, so please provide a full post code. Then we can look up which transmitter and find which channel it is transmitted on.
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janette:
Retuning was a very bad idea as you've now lost the channels that were properly tuned. It also never solves pixilation problems.
The best solution is to check all your aerial cables and connections. Unplug all the coaxial plugs/sockets and then refit them as that will clear the oxidation on the cantacts - which is the most common cause of the problems you report.
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John Hawley:
I would expect Apple Store has a suitable application you could use.
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Michael Dicker:
If you have 100% signal strwength then that is the cause of your problems as it is too strong. Try fitting a 3 dB attenuator in the aerial feed adding a new short flylead so that the weight of the attenuator does not 'hang' on the aerial socket.
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Sunday 7 April 2019 10:38PM
Sarah:
Whwther you are using the Fenton or Sutton Coldfield transmitter you should find Now 80's on the COM8 multiplex on channel 56. You need a Freeview HD receiver to get at==that together with a wideband aerial.
Try doing a manual tune for channel 56.