All posts by Stephen Phillips
Below are all of Stephen Phillips's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Thanks Brian - it will indeed have been 09:55 when it failed. Seem to have found a good signal that works.
Is there a list somewhere of all the Tx I might be able to receive, and their frequencies. For Radio 4 - my wirelesses don't like other channels!
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Thanks Brian. Looks like I use Llangollen or Sutton Coldfield. But frequencies only shown in whole kHz(s/b MHz?). I was wanting to know more precisely!
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Brian - are you having to do it manually, one by one? ATM some are 99.9 format and others no unit at all! But where there is a nuit, still kHz!
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alan - absolutely not!
And I don't think you can get boxes to do analogue tuning.
Sounds like a swap with someone with a decent analogue TV would be best.
Do check that Cyprus TV is entirely compatible with UK. There can be variations in things like sound separation.
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Hi Brian - Thanks for sending me here from the thread I posted on.
I knew about that thread from the "Related Stories" panel on the "Delusional Arguments" thread. I knew about that because I got an email linking to it - presumably because I am a DAB delusionee! (Though in fact I have no view on DAB; just want to keep R4 FM!)
Anyway, I join in appreciation of your site, which is very useful. And I hope it make you some money.
Although I have been here a fair amount, I am not entirely clear on the structure of the discussion threads. But i have never looked into it either.
Incidentally I love your mugshot!
Thanks again
Steve
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Not noticed Freeview radio differing from freeview TV - but will check later and correct myself if ity is!
What I have noticed is that Freeview sound is quieter than Analogue, and picture colour intensity far lower. Using CRT TV! Sony Trinitron. I am not an early adpoter, and have said I won't buy a TV until they come able to receive directly from my WiFi!
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Mark - I think it is understandable that the laity confuse dishes and aerials. They are not even wrong. A dish IS an aerial after all!
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Brian - If only the LNB of a dish is an aerial and the rest is a waveguide; surely the same applies to the reflector and director elements (ie most of the elements) of the yagi?
I too like "earthstation", but I think that would include the electronics too?
Mark - I think most people's problem is lack of basic understanding of what tuners and monitors do, which is understandable if the TV has until recently been a box with both inside. Then they get more confused with RF and SCART connections!
For me it is easy as I recall the set top box tuner we got to receive ITV!
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Brian - If you removed the director and reflector elements from a Yagi the dipole would also get a very weak signal.
Both are radio telescopes. One refractor, one reflector!
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Monday 7 February 2011 11:58PM
Wrexham
Brian - bit off topic for this thread, but does your vast data source extend to knowing about changes to FM transmission?
I am in LL14 5HD- Chirk, south of Wrexham.
For Radio 4 we have long had a choice of two not great signals on very close frequencies. This morning one of them turned to hiss, and there now seem to be two wider spaced signals on the 3 radios I have used since and needed to retune.
Is there a source to check for changes?
TIA
Steve