All posts by Mark Fletcher
Below are all of Mark Fletcher's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Alison.If you leave your full postcode preferably then us experts on here will give even more valuable assistance to you.
One possible indicator to your predicament is the booster you mentioned,the other possibly could involve resetting your appliance which is causing all the problems.
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Richard,Southampton.Two options,firstly try taking your bedroom TV (if it's not too heavy) downstairs into the front room and try after deleting all channels on the bedroom TV,by plugging out the aerial plug on the TV already in your front room and replugging the downstairs aerial connection into the bedroom TV and rescan again.Hopefully this should remedy itself.
The other option if the bedroom TV is too heavy to be transported downstairs and if you have a set-top aerial is to try either that or a piece of wire or coat hanger and stick this into the aerial socket of your bedroom TV,delete all the channels then rescan again,hopefully this should do the trick either the above methods that i suggested,then replug the aerial connection back into your bedroom TV.If this fails then you may have to perform a full resetting procedure to clear the previous memory.Give it a try ?
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Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview transThursday 3 May 2012 10:32PM
St. Neots
Paul,PE19 1JP.I have checked and there are no problems whatsoever with Sandy Heath transmitter,only the reduced 20kw lower powered MuxA multiplex on frequency 31 which is switched off in the early hours of Wednesday 9 May 2012 and replaced by higher 170kw powered SDN multiplex which relocates to frequency 51 as such.
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Correction to my above post.My location is Halifax not St Neots.Apologises for my error of location.
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Gary.No probs,glad to assist you !
Then again you could always consider Freesat which gives you obviously more choice than limited Freeview from minor relays that only broadcast PSB multiplexes,but not COM multiplexes due to high cost levels.
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Jim Davies,Wirral.Having just did a check around 11.20pm i can confirm that using a borrowed larger group W wideband aerial for testing purposes only and temporarily clearing my current set up,i can get the ArqA multiplex from Winter Hill on frequency 61 in my location (somewhat pixellated without the amplification,less pixellated with amplifier on) and Pick TV is on programme channel 11.
You may have to do a reset procedure.
Do you have any boosters as such,and also did you accidentally delete programme channel 11 as such or is the whole of ArqA from Winter Hill on frequency 61 missing from your set up ?
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Shirl,Southampton.Switching the polarity of your aerial from horizontal to vertical is a start as the SDN,ArqA and ArqB commercial multiplexes from Rowridge only transmit 50kw in horizontal mode but 200kw in vertical mode.The reason for this dual polarity is that the SDN,ArqA and ArqB multiplexes from Rowridge on frequencies 25,22 and 28 respectively clash exactly with the 200kw horizontally powered commercial SDN,ArqA and ArqB multiplexes from Crystal Palace transmitter also on frequencies 25,22 and 28 respectively there.Hence the horizontally polarised 50kw SDN,ArqA and ArqB muxs from Rowridge are overpowered by the 200kw horizontally polarised SDN,ArqA and ArqB muxs from Crystal Palace and instead a 200kw vertically polarised equivalent to offset this problem on Rowridge was implemented and alleviates this difficulty as such !
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JB38.No,ArqA from Winter Hill is still broadcasting on frequency 61,not on frequency 49 at this moment in time.I just did another test with my borrowed group W wideband aerial and there is nothing on frequency 49 around 12.10am,yet a minute later on frequency 61 without and with signal amplification i did pick up ArqA from Winter Hill as the system information denotes transmitter name North West.
I do know once the UK is all TV digital that Winter Hill ultimately will have to relocate both muxs ArqA and BBCA from frequencies 61 and 62 respectively to 49 and 50 respectively to clear the 800mhz band or simply frequencies 61-68/69 for upcoming 4G mobile phone services.
It will be even more interesting if rumour speculates that possibly the 700mhz-800mhz band too may also one day be cleared for other services not known at present,effectively putting frequencies 49-60 out of terrestrial use,this certainly will effect Winter Hill altogether.
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Thursday 3 May 2012 1:47AM
Halifax
Tim,Possibly !
At the same time for now try a reset procedure,delete all channels,plug your appliance out of the mains for 30 seconds then back in,now plug the aerial out of your appliance and for now leave it plugged out,do a first time installation normally an automatic scan let it run from start to finish,roughly 2 minutes,the result it will fail to pick up anything.Now after this replug your aerial back in then rescan again it should now work as the previous memory was erased.If this fails,then maybe what you stated about the aerial being misaligned by 5 degrees you may have to realign the aerial by those 5 degrees to pick up the elusive ArqB/Com6 multiplex once again.