All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
KMJ,Derby: Well spotted!! re: the shared frequencies between Bilsdale / Hunmanby & Belmont / Oliver's Mount, as its an indication of the frequency planners predictions (or expectations) of only a low level of signals being received at these locations from the two more distant main stations, which having knowledge of the area, I can say that apart from a few exceptions was indeed just about the case.
My reason for suggesting JPR try for Oliver's Mount is that a while back I had a report (not on UK FREE.TV) from a person residing not too far away from Filey golf course (albeit slightly higher ground) that he was having good reception from all muxes at Oliver's Mount since switchover there.
The other point is, that although I admit that most of the aerials seen in that locality do point to Bilsdale (as mentioned by Dave Lindsay) but many of them always have been prior to Oliver's Mount being upgraded, as Bilsdale was the only semi-reliable option for reception.
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Emma: Ross uses various companies equipment under their banner, so is Ross shown on the box or is it Tevion? and if so what model is it?
The other point is, are you using it with an existing satellite dish or the dish that came with it? although if you have already completed the dish installation (or using an existing dish) to the point of seeing menus on the screen did you make sure that "Astra / Euro1" was selected as the satellite? this listed as number 22 on the dish setting menu. (if Tevion)
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Nicola: The two ended cable you see coming in from the dish (if it definitely is!) is almost guaranteed to have been used by the previous occupiers for Sky+, as this requires two inputs for proper operation.
If you purchase the Bush box you mentioned, which I believe is a BFSAT02SD, then you only require to use one of the leads and leaving the other one unconnected, as these inputs are totally independent of each other, although it could be used at a future date if you purchased a Freesat PVR, as anything that records (via satellite) requires two inputs.
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RUTH HUDSON: According to the trade view predictor you are capable of picking up a signal from Moel-Y-Parc as well as Winter Hill, so whilst on one of the channels that is causing problems (Viva) go into the signal check menu screen and observe if the Mux channel number shown is Ch55, as if its Ch48 then that's not Winter Hill, so manual tuning of the channel will be required.
Winter Hill uses: Mux Ch's62 (BBC) - Ch59 (ITV) - Ch54 (HD) - Ch58 (ITV3 etc) - Ch61 (Pick TV etc) - Ch55 (Film4 / ITV4 etc)
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alan: According to info I have seen you cant, as its automatic on boxes such as you have and so you will have to wait until it appears (hopefully) on the EPG later on in the week (8th) when it officially starts.
EPG 129: 5USA
" 130: 5USA+1
" 131: 5*
" 132: 5*+1
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Dave Lindsay: Yes, I was aware of what you mention as one of the three aerials I have in operation is facing Belmont, although when referring to Belmont in relation to Scarborough its never really been a viable proposition due to its erratic reception, which being at 66 miles away isn't entirely unexpected.
Oliver's Mount serves quite a large area in and around Scarborough, and the increase in power from 100watts up to 2Kw on the main muxes was certainly welcomed by many in the more low lying parts of the town where screening from higher buildings exists, as even some who resided at only a couple of miles away (if that) from the transmitter frequently suffered from picture break up etc, this at the same time as others at about 5 miles or so away on the doorstep of Filey (or similar distances) received a reasonably viewable signal.
Of course I suspected that the bad reception suffered by many was possibly because they were suffering from the umbrella screening effect of being too close to the transmitter mast base, this whereby the main power of the signal was effectively radiating above them.
Still that's up to a point in the past!
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DAVID: With a query of that nature you really have to give info on your location (post code) so that the ArqA transmitter being referred to is known.
But just to clarify a point, are you saying that its only the TV that is suffering from this problem, as if viewing through your recorder reception is perfectly OK?
If so maybe you could come back with the make / model of the TV you are using plus your post code, this to enable a check on technical aspects of the channel involved in relation to the spec of your TV.
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Ed Hogbin: Well I fully understand your frustration, including everyone else's that's affected by this problem, but I found a posting made by a person a few days ago extremely interesting, insomuch that these two multiplexes that's proving to be so elusive to pick up at relatively close distances to the transmitter were actually being received perfectly OK by the poster until recently, them now having disappeared being the basis of the query being made.
The aspect of this which particularly interested me being that the poster was located at 24 miles away from the transmitter, this somewhat giving credence to my suspicion that its the receiving equipments tuner being desensitized by the massively high powered main multiplexes that's causing the problem, as being an RF engineer myself I know this can happen, as although transmitters of vastly differing powers can operate relatively OK together, this does not necessarily apply in the case of receivers that's picking (or trying ) to pick them up, especially in the case of tuners with wideband inputs such as used by TV's etc.
Only experimentation can help to resolve the problem, as in situations such as this a hit and miss element exists.
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Saturday 3 December 2011 9:02PM
bob: If the dish hasn't moved during any exceptionally stormy weather, not of course that this would be noticeable to the naked eye, then its likely that high static rain has damaged either the LNB or the Sky boxes tuner.