All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Simon: Are you sure that its a 9200T? as it only has an automatic "software" updating facility and not channel updating.
However, you should try removing the aerial and follow this by carrying out an auto-tune for purposes of blanking the tuners memory, then once complete reconnect the aerial and on the options of the left hand side of the screen select "installation" (password 0000) and then select "manual" tune.
You will see a channel number entered in the bar on the top, click the right arrow on the large centre selection button and the channel numbers will now appear, then using the up down arrows run up or down the list to Ch45 and press OK and the number will then be in the box, immediately it does the signal strength / quality of that channel will appear and so using the down arrow select and press search.
Once done select to store.
Repeat this process until all five muxes from Hannington are captured and stored.
Channels used by Hannington: 45(BBC) - 42(ITV) - 41(ITV3) - 44(ArqA) - 47(ArqB)
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Simon: Meant also to add, that whilst in the installation menu you should disable the auto software update facility as well as the regular same, that being the one that has 4.00 as the default setting.
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jenny belte: If you have a standard Sky box you press: services - 4 followed by pressing 0 - 1 - select and you will then see the installers menu, select RF outlets - power.
If you have a Sky+ box press "services" and you will then see the main menu with "options" being highlighted, using the right arrow button to highlight the "settings" menu and press select, then choose RF outlets.
By the way Amstrad DRX595 Sky+ boxes do not have RF modulators and likewise do not have RF outlets mentioned on the menu.
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Michael Monaghan: I wouldn't be too worried about that problem for the time being as the station is switching to full high power operation on the 26th, and although maybe nothing is seen mentioned on the engineering page its not necessarily the case that nothing is actually going on as far as minor testing / adjustments is concerned.
By the way the BBC is the only transmitter thats already on high power of 100Kw, the remainder still being on 6Kw except Mux D (Film 4 etc) on only 1.6Kw, whereas on the 26th the PSB's will all be on 100Kw and with the commercials on 50kw.
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Dmichael: Diagnosing satellite problems is far in a way easier than terrestrial based Freeview simply because if a dish has a clear view of the Southern skyline then it "has" to receive a signal, and this applies to anywhere in the UK.
As you mention that you have been through all the on line advice but this appears to be your first posting then maybe you could give a brief run down on what you have actually done, as it would save a great deal of possibly duplicated information being given.
Further advice given as appropriate, but please also mention if you are on a communal dish system or not.
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Jeepers!: Basically yes, as the Calne PSB only transmitter is, as you will probably already know located at just over 1/2 a mile away, and with its "light" status unlikely to ever change.
However you are indicated on the predictor as being able to receive Mendip, and although I have serious doubts as to whether you would be able to receive a usable signal from there if you can access your aerial then there is nothing to stop you swinging it around to face 243 degrees (presently 203) as well as changing its mounting to horizontal, then follow this by carrying out a manual tune signal check on Ch48, Mendip's ITV3.
The only problem you are likely to encounter being the possibility of your aerial being group A, and this would reduce the signal strength of anything picked up from Mendip as it uses higher channel numbers, although this would not necessarily stop you from receiving anything on the manual tune check referred to.
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William: Ayrshire is a reasonably large area and it would have been of great assistance to anyone answering your question if you had provided your location, this being in the form of a post code or one from nearby, eg: a shop being suffice, as although Darvel is the main station transmitter for Ayrshire judging by what you have said it would appear that you are not in its coverage area. (maybe Girvan?).
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Parsley: Chinley and Ladder Hill are the only two Freeview PSB only stations indicated to cover your area, and so I am afraid your neighbours are incorrect in what they have said regarding Ladder Hill.
However anything that they may have managed to receive could possibly be from either Emley Moor (22mls) or Winter Hill (31 mls), but I feel that this good fortune (if true) is very likely only because of a spell of favourable atmospheric conditions, as although in most cases these conditions usually kill reception for many there are cases where the reverse applies, but though with all reception achieved this way the signals are liable to vanish at some point just as quick as they were received.
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Sean Fitzgerald: I would keep the channels between 64 - 69, as modulators in most boxes work best in these ranges.
I will say though that Sky HD boxes do have a record of complaints regarding weak modulators, so keep this in mind.
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Monday 24 September 2012 8:51PM
Alan McGregor: Going back to your 1.10pm posting and your report that the aerial directly connected into the feed for the other rooms enables all channels to be seen but not if via the non-amplified(?) splitter, obviously indicates that the signal level being received is running on the verges of just being good enough and no more, the Humax and its superior tuner possibly being the only reason for success in the living room, although knowing the strength / quality being indicated would still have been of assistance as a Humax is one of the very few devices with reasonably accurate indicators, this essential for assessing a situation.
If any of your other TV's allows manual tuning I would like you go into the tuning menu / manual tune and enter Ch46 but do NOT scan it, because on most devices as soon as the channel number is entered the strength / quality of the signal being received is indicated, giving an update on the result.
One thing you could try for an experiment is to connect the main aerial into the non-amplified splitter and feed one of its outputs to the Humax, then feed another of its outputs into the "amplified" splitter and feed its outputs into the other rooms.
The idea being to boost the other rooms but not the Humax which you report as being OK.
By the way the other rooms boost will not be quite so powerful as before as the amplified splitter is being feed via a slightly reduced signal from the non-amplified splitter.