All posts by jb38
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Sue : Pleased to see that your Mums BBC channels have reappeared. It would however have been interesting to know if others in the area were also affected by the problem, because if they were, then that would have eliminated any possibility of the problem being down to an intermittent fault having developed in your Mums TV/box, something which cannot be completely discounted, as although the signal path from the Bluebell Hill mast (@1.6 miles) is seen to suffer from a line-of-sight obstruction at approximately 0.3 miles prior to her location, it appears as being only of a minor nature, whereby the signal should (in theory anyway) still be exceeding strong in the area.
Re-retuning. This should never be carried out unless a message to this effect has appeared on the screen, because if a signal vanishes due to a glitch at the transmitter, it will "always" return of its own accord provided that its not wiped from the tuners memory. i.e: all that's required is to try (select) it now and again.
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geneann: Motors TV has now ceased transmission on Freeview, the undermentioned explaining the reason why.
Dear Motors TV UK viewers,
Motors TV UK is no longer available on Freeview (channel 71) and YouView (channel 240). We experimented with these platforms to provide additional avenues for showing Motors TV coverage in Britain. However, for various reasons this supplementary service did not match either our expectations or those of our partners, which led us to cease broadcasting Motors TV UK on these platforms.
Motors TV UK remains available to viewers throughout country on Sky channel 447 and Virgin Media channel 545.
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Sue: Purely out of curiosity, should the latest situation remain the same, it would be of interest to know if your Mum is able to get BBC Solent on 719, as this radio programme is broadcast on the same Mux transmitter as BBC1/2 etc.
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Sue : In addition to the advice given by MikeP, it would also suggest that carry out your intention of (5th @ 5.15pm) trying your daughters Freeview box on your mothers aerial system, because apart from the possibility (albeit slight) of your mothers TV being defective, some Freeview devices are more sensitive than others, the effect of being that viewing might be possible from a low level signal on one device whereas not on another, this being why its always better to try reception tests using more than one receiver, as your mother's problem might simply be down to the signal received from Bluebell Hills BBC Mux (C46) hovering at a level just high enough and no more to resolve a picture, but which is dropping off slightly towards night time.
If though the BBC channels are not received on either device, go into the TV or boxes "manual" tuning menu followed by entering C46 (Bluebells BBC) but pausing at this point, i.e: do "not" press search or scan, because if any signal is being received (no matter how low) the level of will be seen on the strength / quality bars.
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Sue : Meant also to add, disregard that said re 719 which is BBC Radio Kent (local), the test channel I should have referred to is the BBC World Service on 710.
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Ken C: Yes, you are perfectly correct, the BBC Solent error being down to me having mistakenly viewed the Meridian channel list for another transmitter, but which I had corrected in a follow up posting made early (very) this morning @12.28am.
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Sue : UHF46 means that you are receiving BBC1 etc from the correct transmitter. However 50% strength cannot be classed as particularly good on a box of the type mentioned as it isn't that much above the reception threshold drop out level, if though the quality of the signal was also indicated along with the strength? maybe you could give an update on what it was, although I do appreciate that some of these boxes only indicate a combined level.
By the way, it would also be of assistance if you could indicate the brand / model number of your own Freeview box, as many of these boxes sold under a range of different brand names are actually made by the same manufacturer.
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Sue : Should by any chance "your" Freeview box perform in a similar fashion to that of your mothers when tried out on "her" aerial system, then the next stage is to ascertain (by asking) if the problem is also being experienced by any of the other residents nearby, although I do appreciate that many loathe having to resort to this measure, but though checks of this nature are essential in order to narrow down the reason for the problem.
By the way, the other person you referred to with an "apparently" (as its not guaranteed to be) similar problem to your Mum is Mick, as he is located at 1.5 miles from the transmitter but minus the line-of-sight obstruction to the signal path such as applies to your mothers location, Bluebell Hill being on a bearing of 211 degrees, whereas with Mick its 230 degrees.
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Sue : In addition to that said. Although its unlikely that your mother will be using an HDMI cable to couple her Wharfedale box into her TV as only a few models have HDMI sockets, but though if her box is one
that does? then make sure that the HDMI cable cable is "not" running parallel (or close) to aerial input cable.
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Monday 4 April 2016 11:55PM
Sue : Also meant to say, that its most inadvisable to carry out a retune simply because channels are lost, as the problem is invariably down the factors external to the TV or box, all that's achieved by retuning same whilst the signal is down is to delete everything already stored in the tuner, frequent retunes then being required to recover same once that the signal has been restored to normal.