All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Margaret : If the coax cable from your Sky box is connected into a wall plate socket of the threaded "screw in" variety and "not" a standard coax push in type such as on the rear of your TV, then this is a satellite connection.
If you can receive some programme channels on your Sky box but not others, then this is inclined to indicate a fault on the flats signal distribution system, the easiest way of determining whether it is or not being to ask one of the other flat dwellers with Freesat or Sky boxes, should any of them be using satellite boxes!
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David Rose: If an engineer has been called then the problem will obviously be sorted out, but though, on the issue of the inputs showing "unlocked" is concerned, this automatically reverts to indicating "locked" as soon as a signal is received.
However, there is another list of settings it would be worthwhile checking on your box, albeit that its unusual for a box to lose them, the procedure seen at the very top of this page being applicable to Sky+HD boxes, if though you are using either a standard box or a Sky+ (white) box, then this is the procedure.
Press : "Services - 4" - the next menu headed by "picture settings", do "not" press on.
Press : "0 - 0 - 1 - select" , this taking you into the "installers" menu.
Press : 1 LNB set up, followed by pressing the red reset button and checking that the settings are as follows, finally selecting "save settings".
Low band - 9.75
High band - 10.6
LNB power - On
22Khz command - On
Press : 2- "Default transponder" on completion of above, and as before pressing the red reset button and checking the settings are as follows.
Frequency - 11.778
Polarisation - Vertical
Symbol rate - 27.5
FEC - 2/3
These are about the maximum number of settings that you can check on, apart from going through the "upgrade software" procedure shown in the heading of this section.
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David Rose: Well you have certainly tried to correct the problem, as about the only possible reasons left are either your dish having moved slightly out of alignment, or alternatively the LNB having failed, if not indeed the box itself!
Would appreciate an update on the outcome of the engineers visit.
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joe: Practically all Freesat recorders (PVR's) are twin tuners devices enabling you to record in exactly the same way as Sky+ / Sky+ HD boxes, and just like Sky+ types requiring two input feeds from the LNB, one feeding each tuner.
A range of reliable devices being manufactured by Humax, an example of one type seen by opening the link.
HumaxDirect
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erick : On the assumption that your TV or box is unable to receive HD transmissions? otherwise you would have added HD programmes to your list, then what you mentioned is inclined to indicate that you are located in a Freeview light transmission area, stations such as this not transmitting other than PSB programmes.
Unable to confirm if you are or not without knowledge of your post code.
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Will Roney: Yeovil is out with the coverage area of Mendips LBS transmitter broadcasting on Mux C51, the signal from the transmitter being beamed on a N/N Easterly direction, the limits of its Southern coverage area being on line drawn between Castle Cary and Butleigh.
If though your TV or box has manual tuning, then try entering C51 into the box but "not" pressing search or scan, because if the slightest trace of a signal is evident it will be seen on the strength / quality indicators.
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W. Brentnall: On the issue of having lost recordings on the Humax, plus the fact of not being able to make any new ones, this definitely points to the hard drive having failed, unfortunately there being no way around the problem except by having the hard drive replaced, this action not being particularly cost effective on non HD versions of the slightly older variety.
As far as wishing to receive East Midlands programmes from Waltham rather than that more applicable to the West, although this can easily be achieved by firstly blanking out the channels already stored in the tuner, the easiest way being to remove the aerial followed by selecting auto-tune, then cancelling it just after it starts, this then followed by reconnecting the aerial and "manually" tuning in Waltham's BBC on Mux C49, storing the result before carrying out a similar action on Waltham's ITV on Mux C54, Waltham's other "National" channels being C58 (HD) C29 - C56 - C57 - COM7 (HD) C31- Local C26.
However, "before" carrying out the aforementioned, your aerial would require to be turned around to face towards Waltham (30 miles) on a bearing of 108 degrees, as Sutton Coldfield (28 miles) is on a bearing of 210 degrees.
That said, there is nothing to stop you from trying an experiment to see if any traces of a signal from Waltham are presently possible using the boxes manual tuning facility, the procedure being to select C49 (also try C54) in manual tune but do "not" press search, as the idea is to observe if anything appears in the strength / quality bars.
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W. Brentnall: In addition to that said with regards to using the boxes manual tune facility for the purpose of detecting the presence of any signal from the Waltham transmitter, as you are located at only 3 miles or so away from the Derby Freeview light PSB only transmitter which is a relay of Waltham, then this station might prove to be a better bet, its BBC being on C48 / ITV C51 / with the HD service on C52, the station being on a bearing of 193 degrees.
Should a workable BBC and ITV signal be obtained from this transmitter, this still leaves the problem of all the other commercial channels having to be received from either Waltham or Sutton Coldfield, as Derby only broadcasts PSB channels.
On the subject of the hard drive again, another point I meant to mention being, that even although on "some" occasions it might be found that disconnecting the box from the mains then waiting a minute or so before reconnecting it again appears to have rectified the problem, the downside is that it seldom ever lasts for long likewise cannot be trusted, as anything recorded could easily vanish again.
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Tony Woollett: This could suggest that the TV being referred to is one of the "HD ready" or "Full HD" variety and not necessarily a set fitted with a DVB-T2 tuner, this type of tuner being necessary for HD reception.
If you provide the brand / model number of the TV involved this can be checked out.
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Saturday 27 December 2014 10:58AM
John Preece: Unfortunately Kilvey Hill is not listed as one of the stations in line for providing an extended HD service, a few test p/codes from around the Morriston area entered into the terrain indicator revealing large multiple line of sight obstructions between the Wenvoe transmitter and the location covered by all of the test codes, this reflected by that seen on the reception predictor using the aforementioned test codes.
The only way full programme channel coverage can be obtained is via Freesat.