All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
js: Thanks js!
By the way, I find your own updates on what's happening on Satellite etc of interest, the info recently supplied alerting me into updating the EPG listings on my own Freesat devices in order to accommodate the return of "Keep it country", having been completely unaware of same.
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Andy: Oxford is listed (as from yesterday 14th) on the planned engineering page under the heading of "Possible weak signal", this always having more of an effect in area's where reception is not of a line-of-sight nature, such as applies in your particular case.
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John Giblett: Engineering work is presently being carried out on a number of transmitters in the Yorkshire area, a warning of "Possible service interruptions" seen listed against Chesterfield.
That said is on the assumption that your reception is from said station? as "some" viewers in your area are able to receive Freeview from the Emley Moor transmitter (@ 27mls/330 degrees), if you happen to be one of them? then no faults are listed against this station, although its noticed that the signal path from this station suffers from multiple line-of-sight obstructions from roughly 8 miles prior to your location.
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Walter raybould: Well, although the Welsh Moel-y-Parc transmitter is indeed indicated as being receivable in your area and at a good signal level (clear line-of-sight), tuning into the Welsh station wouldn't help the situation as far as receiving Al Jazeera etc in your housing complex is concerned, as Moel-y-Parc's COM7 transmits on C32, and as such would be blocked by the aerial filter in the same way as Winter Hills C31.
I will say though, that the management of your complex would certainly appear to be on the ball!, as I was really impressed at the speed the aerial engineers arrived to retune / replace the filters, especially as it wasn't actually a system breakdown but just an upgrade.
Anyway, pleased to know that your COM7 problem is now OK. Cheers/jb.
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Gkirsty: Have you tried disconnecting the box from the mains supply before carrying out the "first time install"? If you have and Ch4 etc is still missing, are you able to view Freesat 608 (CBeebies) or 800 (QVC)?, if neither, then this can be caused by one of the following reasons.
(1): A fault having developed in your Freesat box, try carrying out a complete reset. (if menu allows).
(2): A defective LNB (mounted on the dish arm), or
(3) Water contamination inside the "F" connector (on end of coax) screwed into the LNB.
Maybe you could indicate the model number of the Grundig box in question?
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Dawn : A "no signal" warning can be down to a number of reasons including a defective box, although this applies more to older Sky boxes, maybe you could indicate the model involved? e.g: standard or Sky+ / Sky+HD etc.
However, this warning is more usually connected with problems associated with the dish, or cabling to/from, including it (the dish) having moved "slightly" out of alignment, e.g: blown by the wind etc, the movement necessary to do this being so minute that it couldn't be detected by the human eye.
If you are using a standard box, press: Services - 4 - 6 and checking if any signal / quality levels are seen, if they are but at a very low level (under 50%) then this points to the dish having moved.
For Sky+HD boxes.
Press "Services" on your Sky remote control and you will see the main menu
with "Options" being highlighted.
2:- Select the "Settings" menu using the right arrow button and press
select.
3:- Use the left / right arrows to scroll to "Signal" and press select, the
grey bars displayed will show you the strength of the signal being
received.
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Sandra Hares: If the TV that you report as not getting a good signal on any channels is found to be the same when tested on any of the outlet sockets used by other TV's? then the TV is defective.
One possible reason for the problem could be that the "inside" of the TV's aerial socket ("o" shaped section) has widened to the extent that it isn't gripping the aerial plugs middle pin, meaning that there is no electrical contact between both.
If on a visual inspection the inside section of the TV's aerial socket does appear to have widened, slightly crimp it together, or just crimp it slightly no matter what it looks like!
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Kay Flannagan: Your area is indicated as receiving the best signal from the Pendle Forest transmitter, the station located near to the village of Fence at approx 4 miles away / 254 degrees, aerials pointing towards this transmitter having to be vertically mounted (elements up/down) for reception.
Winter Hill @ 25miles / 222 degrees is also receivable in your area, aerials pointing towards same being mounted horizontally, i.e: flat.
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heather: Not quite clear as to exactly what you are meaning, but can it be assumed that you do have a fully operational Sky box working from a dish?, if you do, and are wanting to feed the programme being viewed on the Sky box into the (gifted) Freeview TV possibly located in another room?, then this is achieved by connecting a coax cable from the Sky boxes RF1 output socket into the TV's aerial input socket via a splitter, the "normal" aerial also being connected into the splitter, the main point being, do *not* touch the coax cable going into the Sky boxes LNB input socket, as it has to be of a continuous nature.
Should the aforementioned apply? further advice can then be given, however, as this involves going into the Sky boxes menu system maybe you could indicate what type of Sky box you are using, e.g: standard non-recording / white Sky+ box / Sky+HD box fitted with RFoutput sockets on the rear, more recent models of the latter not being fitted with RF output sockets.
If on the other hand you are simply intending to use this new Freeview TV instead of the one you are presently viewing Sky on? then why can't you just feed the Sky box into the TV's scart input socket (as presently done?) and switch between Sky and Freeview by using the "input select" facility on the TV's remote control.
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Tuesday 15 March 2016 4:26PM
Walter raybould: Many thanks for the update, much appreciated! pleased to know that you have finally succeeded in capturing the elusive C31.
I do feel though that your problem is one which is very likely to crop up with communal aerial viewers in other areas where the COM7 (or 8) transmitters covering their area are operating on an entirely different band from the main Muxes, as band filters are used in numerous communal aerial systems.
The main purpose of these filters being to eliminate the possibility of inconvenience caused by multiple channel pick up from other "out of area" transmitters, something which can plague viewers in certain areas every time retuning is required in order to update the EPG to cater for additional programme channels.