All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Chris Welton: Both the Minigaff and Cambret Hill which serve the area are Freeview "Light" 3 multiplex stations, whereby only PSB (public services) programmes are broadcast.
The reason for this being, that the commercial interests were not willing to pay towards the running costs of additional multiplexs because the coverage / area population was not considered large enough for the returns made.
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Craig: You should carry out a signal check noting the Mux channel number shown, this to ensure that your TV or box hasn't picked up the lower multiplex channels used by Hannington whereby pushing Oxfords channels up into the 800 ranges, as the reception of Hannington is shown as being possible on your code, albeit in an inferior fashion to Oxford.
Oxford using (BBC)Mux Ch53 / (ITV1 etc)Mux Ch60, whereas Hannington is (BBC)Mux Ch50 / (ITV1 etc)Mux Ch43.
If it has, then blank out anything stored by scanning without the aerial, then after re-connecting manually enter the channels given, finally using the "add channels" (or whatever your device calls it) to obtain the remaining multiplexes.
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Ian: You would really have to provide a post code to enable any element of accuracy to exist in the answer to your query, as a few test codes tried out based at various points including Maldon High street indicated large differences in what its possible to receive, this suggesting that the location comes into the category of being a difficult reception area, and is possibly the reason for your problem.
This of course said taking it that you do have a device fitted with a DVB-T2 tuner, as only that will pick up HD transmissions and not anything (if TV) under the title of "HD Ready".
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Chris Welton: Yes, not having any choice other than the PSB multiplexes cuts out quite a range of programmes, as Freeview has a number of channels (e.g: Quest etc) that isn't duplicated on Freesat, and although Sky does have them its as part of a package and not "Free to view".
Just out of curiosity what model of Freesat box are you referring to? and when you say "through to the attached external hard drive", is this being said connected to what you actually have, or is it just a thought? as a Freesat twin tuner PVR is the ideal choice for situations such as yours.
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caroline: I am not quite sure what you mean when you say "turn over", are you meaning when changing channels?
Also what model of Philips TV are you referring to? as "HD ready" in most TV's does not mean that they can actually receive HD transmissions, but only show an HD image when the said TV is coupled into an HD receiver via its HDMI socket.
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Yvonne: Re: Post code, there is absolutely no danger of that, as you haven't given it!
Also, its impossible to give any form of helpful advice regarding your upstairs TV's problem, as you haven't mentioned anything about how these TV's are connected to the aerial system used by the downstairs TV that you say is working fine after a re-tune.
Haven't you done the same with these upstairs TV's?
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Mr J T Stuart: Re: aerial access statement, when you say that "you do not have", are you meaning that you cannot view it at all? even at a distance? if though by any chance you can, then there is a square plastic cap pushed into the end of long horizontal arm that holds the elements (NOT the end that the reflectors are mounted on) and its the colour of the plastic cap that indicates the group.
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Ken: Thanks for that report, as it gives a good indication of the signal strength being received at approx 27 miles due South of the station.
Loss of lip sync is a thing that can happen on some equipment after a glitch in the signal being received, but obviously you have discovered the simple and easy way to cure it when viewing a real time signal. (not PVR)
If your TV (or box) displays both signal and quality indications you should observe them for a few minutes on the channel known to suffer most with the lip sync problem, the purpose of this being to see if the quality rapidly dips to actual zero at any time, or that it just jumps about between two levels, because if its the latter then a booster (12-15dB) would assist with this problem by keeping the average level higher, however it wouldn't really if the dip was frequently to zero.
This said though, taking it that the signal received is not a continual 100% strength, as if it was then it could be that an intermittent signal reflection (e.g: aircraft etc) is making the signal more intense whereby its just about overloading the tuner, albeit in too rapid a fashion to cause any noticeable level of picture freezing.
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Rob Tinkler: As far as Hastings old town is concerned yes! but only BBC on the 30th of May 2012, as ITV and the HD service is shown as being from June 13th 2012.
Indications are though that you should presently be able to receive Freeview from the main Hastings station, this being at 1 mile away, unless that is there is some local obstruction in existence which blocks the signal from your area, the station being located @ 280 degrees and with the aerial being mounted vertically.
Purely for a test you could try manually tuning in BBC on Mux Ch31, ITV being Mux Ch27.
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Monday 10 October 2011 9:50PM
Matt: Well, the difference I see is that out of the six multiplexes presently available from Crystal Palace both confused and yourself only has two of them in the green scale, the remainder under variable, confused's green being Mux Ch's 34 / 29, whereas in your case its Mux Ch's 32 / 34.
There is only two miles of a difference between you both, but with CP being at 67 degrees from confused, whereas its 49 degrees from yourself.
Predictors cannot really cater for local conditions, and so they give an approximation of what's expected.