All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Davy:If the box referred to is genuinely a Freesat device and "not" a free to air satellite box such as sold by Aldi or Lidls etc, then you do not have to enter any info relating to the name of a satellite
or transponders on, as the box is pre-programmed with the necessary info already in it.
What model of box are you using? and is the dish its connected into ex Sky, or have you just had the dish installed?, also, if the box offers options of either Satellite or Freesat, make sure that Freesat has been chosen and "not" satellite.
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John Guy: One of the easiest ways of determining what she will be able to view, or not as the case may be, is for her to remove the viewing card and run through the channel list, as a message will pop up on anything that requires a card to view it.
The only thing that may be noticed is that the local news channels will have reverted to London, but this will be rectified when the card is re-inserted even although Sky has been cancelled.
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John Guy: Another point to note being, if the Sky box referred to is of the Sky+ / Sky+HD variety she will lose the recording / play back facilities, as when Sky is cancelled the box reverts back into being a standard version, as Sky cancels access to that side of the box.
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loubod: I am quite amazed that your box has lasted this long, as the electrolytic capacitors used in the internal power supplies of these models had to be replaced even as far back as 8 or 9 years ago due to the heat generated within the box having dried them out, the effect of this being a reduction in the voltage being fed into various parts of the circuitry resulting in a range of problems being experienced by the user, what you have reported being one of them.
Replacement power units are no longer available for this model, although the capacitors are should any electronics enthusiast wish to attempt a cure, which when taking the age of the box into account, is quite frankly not really worth the trouble.
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David Garside : Although I cannot see anything mentioned with regards to viewing this programme on Freesat, but though, a starting date of Dec1st on Sky channel 117 has been.
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colin Robertson: Mux channel 49 / 698.0Mhz refers to COM6 on the Angus transmitter, and if you have previously received this channel OK then there is no reason why you should not be able to now.
Although you haven't actually mentioned as to whether or not you have carried out an auto-tune since the problem occurred, but if you have and it has not made any difference, go into your TV or boxes tuning menu and select "manual" tune followed by entering (or selecting) C49 but "not" followed by pressing search or scan, as on most (but not all) devices the signal level of the channel selected will be indicated no matter how low it may be.
The reason for this test is to determine or not, if your problem is simply being caused by the signal level received from COM6 being a fraction under that necessary for the tuner to lock onto, because should this apply, the channel will just be bypassed during an auto-tune.
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Matthew Pigg: Its not available on Freesat. But if your TV is capable of connecting into the internet you can view it on channel 240 from the COM5 transmitter.
By the way, the data channels are only of use with TVs or boxes capable of being connected into the internet.
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yvonne warriner: Have you as yet carried out a retune on your TV? as ITVBe is transmitted on the same Multiplex as used by ITV3 (10) / QVC (16) etc.
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Carole : If you are receiving signals upstairs but not on your downstairs connection then this simply points to the link from upstairs being broken at some point, maybe even caused by a defective jumper lead!
However, you should temporarily connect your box (and TV if its a Freeview model) into the upstairs connection and carry out a retune on it, this being to restore the channels lost during your last retune before returning the box downstairs, as its easier to test for a faulty connection on a box or TV that already has channels stored in its memory, as the picture will jump back on again as soon as the defective connection is moved.
If though all appears to be OK downstairs, then its really a case of checking out whatever method has been used to feed the signal from the aerial to the two outlet points, the usual way being via a two way splitter, this being either powered or unpowered dependant on the signal strength being received, although in your case I feel that its possibly powered.
Further advice dependant on feedback, but just a point to note with regards to retuning. Retuning should never be carried out on any Freeview device if all signals appear to be lost, because all it achieves is to wipe out anything already stored in the tuners memory resulting in further retunes having to be made in order to restore them.
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Friday 10 October 2014 5:13PM
Steve : Go into your Sky boxes signal check screen ("services - 4 - 6" on a standard box) and check the strength and quality levels indicated, both should be around 60% minimum and with the quality "not" being lower than the strength, as on a well aligned dish its usually higher.
If the quality is found to be lower, then this can cause problems with some programme channels even although they are on the same transponder as others that are OK, should this apply then the dish requires slight realigning, this usually being in the left / right horizontal plane.