All posts by Michael Perry
Below are all of Michael Perry's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Trevor Harris:
As a similarly qualified physicist, I find that the range of learning offered by Future Learn (https://www.futurelearn.com/) to be beneficial to those wanting to improve their knowledge. Some of the courses are a bit naff to the likes of us but people have to start somewhere. Some of the courses are free but others have a smallish fee requirement. You have to be selective of course.
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carl cutting:
Tacolnston is not the best transmitter for you to use in Great Yarmouth. There is a Freeview light transmitter that will give better and more reliable reception - but with a limited range of services. See About us | Freeview for more details.
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Glyn:
Freeview transmitters serve thousand or even millions of viewers. If there was a fault giving rise to problems as you report then thousands or millions would have been complaining. Hence it very strongly suggests you may well have a fault condition within your system. So please help my fellow contributors and I to assist you by giving us a full post code and a house number/name. Then we can look up the expected reception conditions at you specific location. Then, and only then, we may be able to suggest suitable solutions.
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Denis:
As we contributors are trying to assist remotely, omitting the fact that you are in a block of flats with a communal aerial is crucial information we needed.
A Freeview DVB-T2 tuner will work with any DTV service in the British Isles.
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Chris.SE:
I can't see that point in any of his recent posts. If he is the official provider of the distributed aerial system, why can he not provide a dual feed - two cables per flat with a coaxial switch so the tenant can select which source they want to watch?
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Guy Peirson:
Different TVs have different sensitivities. The new LG has a more sensitive tuner so needs less signal. Insert an attenuator in the cable feeding that TV by adding a new flylead as well so the weight of the attenuator does not 'hang' on the aerial socket.
You can get a range of coaxial attenuators or an adjustable one, there are several possible suppliers.
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John:
In that situation you should unplug the aerial lead, perform a full retune and refit the aerial plug and perform another retune. That clears the redundant memory data and allows new tuning data to be saved afresh.
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Chris.SE:
But it does resolve the problem effectively. It is so easy to flip a simple switch during the installation process.
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Roger Livesey.:
It has been stated many, many times on this website that the channels indicated has not been updated due to the pressure of work on the site owner, Briantist. Again, we contributors always suggest you look at the channel allocations given by the Digital UK Coverage Checker that is run on behalf of the transmitter operators and is the most accurate source for such information.
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Monday 21 October 2019 7:26PM
Denis:
The solution I used when I live in an area where I could get signals from two transmitters that were on opposite direction was to use a coaxial switch that had two inputs and one output. That meant that by merely flipping the switch I could watch signals from one transmitter or the other without any problems and no conflicts. Some people don't like tht solution because of needing to operate a simple switch - but it works perfectly.