All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Ricci: You can carry out a visual check on what station your aerial is directed at, as Belmont is at 52 degrees (19mls) - Waltham 202 degrees (28mls) - Lincoln Central 8 degrees (4mls), with the latter being a light Freeview transmitter (limited services) using Mux Ch's 44 (BBC1) - 41 (ITV1 etc) - 47 (HD service).
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Ricci: I just noticed your 1:53PM report on the test carried out, this before your later 2:17PM posting that I replied to. (I really will have to scroll up the screen more often!!)
However, what you have said now makes me a bit suspicious as far as your sets capability to resolve HD transmissions is concerned, especially when it initially shows nearly full but immediately drops off, as that can indicate that the TV recognises that a signal is there but is unable to decode it, this irrespective of what the manual might state.
I intend to investigate this further as far as this model is concerned, because through experience I am well aware that some equipment although listed as being able to do whatever, still requires software updates to correct problems, something that "might" be applicable in your case.
Anyway, if magically it suddenly rectifies itself, (which I doubt) you could maybe post an update.
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terry: You are basically correct regarding having to wait until 21st of September, as although Litchfield is presently operating a temporary low power HD service on Mux Ch34 (@ 4Kw) its doubtful if you will receive it, as many cant.
That said though, the trade predictor does indicate that you can, so try a manual tune on Mux Ch34 and see what comes up.
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Paula: Sounds suspiciously as though your dish is slightly out of alignment, have a look at the signal strength / quality levels being shown by pressing "Services - 4 - 6", both indications should be reasonably level at about 75% of the scale.
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Mike: Lets hope you your outdoor aerial is about the minimum size you can get? as you are virtually under the umbrella of the Belmont transmitter, meaning that serious overloading problems could be well be occurring which could be desensitizing your equipments tuner.
If you have one about, try a set top aerial and see what happens.
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Paula Forgot to add, or that something is partially obstructing your dishes view, e.g: vegetation, trees, etc.
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Richard: Yes quite so! although somehow I thought you would report less than satisfactory reception, as predictors (even trade ones) are notoriously unreliable as far as their accuracy is concerned, this because of the number of local variables that nearly always exist.
Plus of course your aerial might not be even remotely in line with these other transmitters.
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Andy: Well, what you are doing can be viewed as having similarities to someone using a metal coat hanger stuck into the back of a TV for reception when in a really good reception area.
The Pendle Forrest transmitter is the nearest to you at 3 miles away, Haslingden at 8 miles and Winter Hill on high power at 18 miles, so it has to be assumed that you must be in one of these areas where a pocket of intense signal is received otherwise what you are doing wouldn't work, because it technically shouldn't, maybe even a tad on the outrageous! (meant in the nicest possible way of course!)
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Sue: Indications are that you should be able to receive Freeview at about the same strength of signal from three stations, namely Winter Hill - Storeton - Bidston, although another two could also come into the equation.
Humax boxes generally have very sensitive tuners and this could well cause great problems in your area when carrying out an auto-tune, as Storeton might take up EPG1 for BBC, and if not that station Bidston or Moel-Y-Park.
The only somewhat easy way to avoid this happening being to first of all blank the boxes memory store, this done by removing the aerial and carrying out a complete retune.
Once done, keep the aerial plug in your hand and carry out another auto-tune whilst carefully watching the progress indicator travelling up from the starting point, this being where you need to be quick, because as soon as the progress bar passes channel 52 immediately insert the aerial, and that should then enable the box to load Winter Hill, its lowest Mux channel being 54.
That said though, Storeton Wales might still cause a problem dependant on if its reaching you with any strength, as its on Mux Ch's 57 & 53 (HD on 60)
If you do not get any success then manually tuning (and storing) each Mux in turn is the only thing you can do, Mux channel numbers to use supplied if requested. Another way is if you could tune your box at a friends house who can maybe only receive Winter Hill due to their location.
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Sunday 21 August 2011 1:49PM
Don Greer: You don't really have anything to worry about except maybe that your still is still aligned properly, which it likely will be, as you just leave the extra lead uncoupled as it was possibly being used for a Sky+ set up where recording is involved.
All outputs on a dish LNB are independent of each other, so that they can be used for things such as viewing one channel whilst recording another etc.