All posts by Stephen Phillips
Below are all of Stephen Phillips's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Ian McKie - I presume you know that the box you have will get you SD Freesat from Sky for free?
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Jenny - no idea, but it would be better to ask on the thread for the Hull transmitter, not on this old dead housekeeping place.
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Sorry - as a Lancashire man I naturally know nothing of Yorkshire. Indeed until recently I thought "Belmont" was another name for the "Winter Hill" transmitter - which is in Belmont, Lancs!
Jenny, you say "I've tried retuning, and stretching another freebies box to the tv"
Does the other Freebies (Freeview I presume?) box work or not?
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Ian - to extend slightly on jb38's comment, I think Sky installers often did use a quad or double LNB with only a single cable. I just looked at a dish here which has one cable at the far left of a box with 4 outputs.
Basically, look where the cable goes in and see how many spare slots there are.
The LNB is a clever little thing
Low noise block-downconverter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Satellites use comparatively high radio frequencies (microwaves) to transmit their TV signals. As microwave satellite signals do not easily pass through walls, roofs, or even glass windows, satellite antennas are required to be outdoors, and the signal needs to be passed indoors via cables. When radio signals are sent through coaxial cables, the higher the frequency, the more losses occur in the cable per unit of length. The signals used for satellite are of such high frequency (in the multiple gigahertz range) that special (costly) cable types or waveguides would be required and any significant length of cable leaves very little signal at the receiving end.
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Your Lateral Malleorus looks out of alignment! A fibulous injury.
Where were you? Sue council?
I hope it was near the end of your holiday, not at the start.
Doubtless Easyjet charged a high price for the seats you could not use?
Hope it mends well.
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Interesting
Thanks Brian.
Am I to take it that anywhere with "indoor" also has "Mobile"?
Don't live in Wales seems to be the message!
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So if it works indoors with a "portable set" it will certainly work outdoors with a car radio ae? Even a low one in a bumper?
I'm amused at the "old way" - to me the "old way" is AM LW/MW with no Ae at all, except perhaps a long wire for Dx.
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GFL - you are very charitable. More lioke they wanted to sell two spare seats at full price.
Depends how mobile Brian was - bend knee or not? Crutches, etc.?
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Monday 27 June 2011 12:01AM
james - you do not say what sort of aerial you use, but in a caravan it is unlikely to be 30ft high and highly directional. Plug in your postocode top right for info.
MO'P as a general rule transfer to full digital comes with a considerable increase in power which will resolve previous marginal situations.
And, incidentally, render a major part of the money previously spent on aerials totally wasted, as the new power would have worked fine through the old aerials.