All posts by Steve
Below are all of Steve's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.S
Freesat reception - all about dishes | Free satellite - generalWednesday 2 February 2011 6:39PM
Sheffield
On my SKY box I can watch all BBC variants and with a bit of manual tuning can get any ITV region. Does this facility apply to freesat - I imagine it would.
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Freesat reception - all about dishes | Free satellite - generalMonday 21 February 2011 6:55PM
Sheffield
I notice that BBC1 Scotland has a channel number for Virgin Media when outside of Scotland. Does this mean it can be accessed through Virgin Cable? I emailed them to ask but probably won't live long enough to wait for an answer....
Thanks
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Freesat reception - all about dishes | Free satellite - generalMonday 7 March 2011 11:04AM
Sheffield
Is there a good channel guide to FREESAT which includes BBC regions and nations, and ITV regions? Friend having Freesat insrtalled soon but wants to play around with it.
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Freesat reception - all about dishes | Free satellite - generalTuesday 15 March 2011 6:40PM
Sheffield
The FREESAT/SKY ITV regions are a mystery. We live in Sheffield and would get Yorks W service with an aerial. Sky used to put that on EPG but a few months ago changed it to Yorks E - the Lincolnshire service. Mum in Nottinghamshire gets this too. Friend in Notts put a Nottingham postcode in his FREESAT to trick it to give him Central E but bizarrely it gives him Cenral W. I gave him the frequencies to tune manually but I wonder why you can't just choose your own regions for BBC and ITV
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Freesat reception - all about dishes | Free satellite - generalMonday 21 March 2011 6:56PM
Sheffield
Mike - thanks for the info.
Briantist - thanks for that contrbution. The truth is that my mate put in a Nottingham postcode to try and trick Freesat. An NG17 postcode usually brings up Yorks E. I'll find out the postcode of the transmitter itself!!
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Mick in Eckington
I live nearby in Gleadless and go to Eckington a lot. Most aerials in the town point to Belmont so I am sure this is why you get BBC1 Lincs. To be fair, lots of homes in North Derbyshire and Sheffield do - it may be possible to fit an aerial for Emley Moor but if you live down at the bottom of the hill this might not be possible. It will cost you too
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Steve in Chesterfield
If you used to get the Yorks W service and now get Yorks E after a re-scan, it is likely that your receiver has picked up the Belmont signal first and stored it; the Yorks W one may be in the 800 series of channels, but if not wait until DSO has been complete. If the problem persists post again. Keep re-scanning.
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The local service for Sheffield will be transmitted from the Sheffield relay, but most of Sheffield gets it's pictures from Emley Moor, Belmont, another local relay, even from distant Waltham or Bilsdale.
What about Sky/Freesat viewers?
I can't see sponsorship or support for a service which many won't be able to get, never mind want to watch!
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Jimmy James: most of Notts gets Look North - where do you live? Sounds like digital overlap. Please provide postcode.
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Wednesday 26 January 2011 4:11PM
Sheffield
Daft idea anyway having Lincoln in the "Yorkshire" region when much of Yorkshire is in the "Tyne Tees" region. However as I too get Belmont in Sheffield, it just goes to show that UHF television signals are difficult to predict, and that when existing regions are split further, viewers using different transmitters for perfectly good reasons will be confused.