All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Una: I have just tried the instructions referred to on a Humax Freesat recorder and it works exactly as described, and yes "V" does correspond to vertical, this automatically being linked to 27500 and likewise did not require to be entered.
If you give the model number of the box in question I will have a check on its menu system used, as obviously they are not all exactly the same in operation.
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An Irate Freeview viewer: I presume that you do realise that you are not officially predicted as being able to receive these two channels? namely Ch54 & Ch63, and although you might well have managed to receive them before it should however be appreciated that this was only really through good luck and not through entitlement, but unfortunately this good luck having been spoiled because of the massive differential in power between the main muxes and the two commercials, as the main muxes will most likely be desensitizing your tuner thereby making it difficult for it to pick up the very much weaker signals being received from these two commercials, something thats affected quite a number of viewers in the Sudbury coverage area, even a number who unlike yourself, are actually predicted to receive it.
By the way, the three commercial channels of SDN / ArqA / ArqB are not connected in any way whatsoever with the TV licence, it only being linked with the PSB muxes, these three commercials being purely for profit purposes and likewise not being required in the legal sense to ensure they can be received by any licence holder.
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kc: Its not really possible to offer assistance unless a persons location is known, this in the form of a post code or one from nearby, as only then can the transmitter serving the area be known as well as being able to assess the signal levels expected from it at the persons location.
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James: You are located at only six miles away from the Rowridge transmitters and as such could be receiving an excessively high level of signal which can be saturating your TV or boxes tuner, try a test using either a set top aerial or a short piece of wire (about 12/18") inserted into the inner part of the aerial socket, then give the TV another auto-tune.
Although Rowridge is far more powerful on its vertically polarised transmissions than on horizontal, but at your distance from the transmitter this should be neither here nor there.
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matt: A Sky box uses exactly the same input connection from a dish as does Freesat and a card is not required to view Sky's "free to view" channels except for Pick TV(152), and so if the box is working OK then whoever you give it to will be able to couple it up via the usual scart lead and all should be OK.
I would give them your mains lead though!
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Freddie pearce: Indications are that you are located in a bad reception area for Hastings as all muxes (except ArqA / ArqB) are indicated as having the reception status of permanently variable, although ITV4 should be OK in three days time when it as well as the other muxes increases power from 200watts up to 1Kw that the BBC is presently on, a retune being required then as ArqA & ArqB (ITV4) are changing channels, although ArqA (PickTV etc) falls into a variable status on the same date leaving only ArqB as the only mux not being variable.
The other point is that Bexhill will be starting service on that date as well, something which "might" cause a problem as far as your reception of Hastings is concerned by it desensitizing your tuner, as the Bexhill relay is indicated as being exceptionally close to you, the other somewhat negative point about Bexhill being that its a PSB only relay and does not transmit anything other than the BBC1 / ITV1 / HD services.
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Robert: My comments were purely based on you having stated (7th @ 9.55pm) that it now appears that up-scaling via HDMI is now an issue post DSO, and also you having referred to reception deteriorating when it rains with of course me having explained a possible reason for this occurring.
That said though, the reason I explained would affect a communal aerial system much more than an indoor one by the fact that the communal aerial will also capture the high level of EMF that's in the rain by having direct contact with it, whereas you wont with an indoor aerial and why I mentioned the rod on window ledge test as being the only way to verify this.
So when you say that you now think that there are two different intermittent problems, yes! I feel that as well, but in my opinion one concerns the communal aerial system, and the possibility that its distribution amplifier "inputs" are being overloaded by an excessively high level of signal and is causing slight instability in the amplification / distribution system, and with this being reflected in the quality of the signal from the other end that's being fed to the various apartments.
The second being that your indoor aerial is suffering from an element of capacitive type problems, i.e: movements from within the room or from an adjacent apartment, the only way to eliminate (or near anyway!) this being to have the aerial placed as near to the window as you can.
I honestly do feel that you are looking (or maybe hoping?) for some highly technical reason for your problems that possibly involve the construction of the radiating elements on the mast, whereas the real reason is far simpler, that of being located in area where a permanently high level of RF is circulating around it from all angles.
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David Taylor: If a digital recorder or PVR loses previously recorded programmes then it can only be caused by either (1) the hard drive has been accidentally re-formatted or (2) a fault having developed in the actual recorder itself, as nothing external can cause that to happen.
Even if a factory reset is carried out, in 99.9% of devices this still doesn't delete previous recordings.
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Sarah C: Yes, keep the info stored away for future reference as this type of thing is much more of a problem than most people realise, basically because that the symptoms seen by the viewer is exactly the same as to that of a weak signal, it even indicating as such! this because of the high level of RF having corrupted the signal level measuring system and resulting in it giving a false reading.
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Sunday 10 June 2012 3:39PM
Nickie: Is Yesterday(12) also missing? as its on the same mux transmitter, if it is then go into your TV's tuning menu / manual tune and enter Ch56 into the box then press search or scan, or whatever your TV calls it.
By the way Ch56 is for reception from Plympton proper, not the North road relay which does not transmit commercial muxes, if though you receive your signal from Caradon Hill then the channel number required would be 27.
If you still have a problem then select ITV4 on the TV can receive it and carry out a signal strength check, as the mux channel number its picking it up from will be seen along with the signal strength.