All posts by bren
Below are all of bren's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
OK it seems HD should be on Nottingham although I found it hard to get that information here. You need to know what to look for.
My TV does not have HDfreeview so I can't get it on that. I have a USB freeview stick which says it is HD and I can't get it on that either, however I never really believed I could. It only cost about £10 so I can't grumble too much. It is now possible to get similar sticks which do receive HD however they are expensive compared to the SD ones at about £60 so I might give it a miss for the time being and just get a HDfreeview recorder for the TV.
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There seems to be a problem with the Nottingham transmitter on the Sky News mux which is ArqA I believe. Yes it is ArqA as my TV says it is on channel 52.
I am getting occasional interference/blocking on this mux. This is rather disappointing as I was having no problems before the change, none whatsoever. In fact it is extremely disappointing given this is on 'full power'.
I am 4 miles from the transmitter, I also went to my parent house who are only mile form the transmittor, ie almost on top of it and they are getting the same problem.
It seems channel 52 is prone to interference.
Anyway there is definitely a problem there which needs sorting.
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Dave Jenks, ,my parent have on of those expensive but 'easy to use Humax' boxes.
I was always picking up weak Sutton coalfield signals on it. The solution for me was to lower the aerial and retune to get rid of those weak signals which block the stronger one as they are found first.
You may be able to achieve the same result by fitting an attenuator (something to weaken the signal). It may also be possible to individually tune in a channel but I found the Humax box a bit of a 'pig' to understand.
Their house was a bungalow so it was easy to get at the aerial. Basically you need to find a way of weakening the signal so it missed the bad signals completely. Maybe a bit of badly shielded cabling might do the trick?
You would only need it for the tuning. Or just running it through a long extension cable to, or buy an attenuator on ebay perhaps?
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Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) Full Freeview transmitterTuesday 4 October 2011 12:59AM
Nottingham
Hi, I am in nottingham and I am on the nottingham transmittor, everthing was fine untill the final changes about a week ago and not I sometimes get noise on Sky News mux, only occaionally and brielfly though so it's 'almost perfect'.
Reading this it seems I woudl be better switching to Waltham, I just checked the predicted signal strengths on the wolfbane sight and Walthanm is slightly stronger (51 v 50 dbuv/m) so I will try that, my aerial is in the loft so hopefully it wil be easy to do, I think I can basically sling the aerial on the ground pointing in the other direction!! :O)
It was much harder getting the aerial horizontal for nottingham, I had to build something to hold it 'upright'. I will have to sort out my eldrly parents too as that is a nottigham one.
However this last half hour I habe noticed no interfereence so maybe I will be OK, I did leave a message, on this forum I think about he problem, so maybe they fixed it (the message seems not to be here!). Maybe it was a different forum?
Anyhow all does seem fine now so I will leave it as it is for the time being.
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brendan C:
Hi mycloud, it might possibly be that following changes you are picking up a weak signal from waltham instead of the one from nottingham. I know the Humax set top boxes tend to do this. Afterall if they get the same mux from two different transnittors they have to decide which one to store, some may store both so perhaps you have the channels stored on higher numbers ie 800+?
So weakening the signal when tuning (or permanately might cure it. YOu can get a variable attenuator on ebay for a few quid.
YOu could even try making the cable longer or putting in a bad section (some insulation missing). Basically anything to reduce the signal.
Or maybe you simply need to retune mycloud?
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Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) Full Freeview transmitterTuesday 4 October 2011 1:18AM
Nottingham
brendan:
OK I found my post I refered to on this forum it was on the shieffield and nottingham switchover page.
Anyway my recpetion has been perfect on the problem Sky mux so hopefull the problem is solved!!!
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brendan: mycloud, I put your postcode into the wolfbane sitet and it seems you should get a strong signal from the Sheffield transmitter and only need a set-top aerial.
But presumably you had a strong signal before the anyway?
I am in Nottingham and I also have (slight) problems on the moved mux. I also had perfect reception until about a week ago.
Also mycloud I would check the channel number of the channel with interference and make sure it says C39, it maybe the mux got overlayed by the same mux from a more distance transmitter. This happen on my parents TV, I fixed it by laying the aerial on the ground and retuning so it could not find the weak signal.
The may also be a way of manual retuning C39 where you specify the channel to search for, try that.
A bit of co-axial cable connected to a metal coat-hanger might be good enough for you.
I have been getting a bit of interference on mine again today on C52 but it's a negligible problem really.
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Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) Full Freeview transmitterSaturday 22 October 2011 1:24AM
Nottingham
NG7 2FW
I am still getting problems on channels 51 and 52 (sky news and itv2 + 1).
This is extremely disappointing given I had no problems before the recent change.
My parents also have the same problem and they are much nearer the transmitter so it seems to be a universal problem. The other channels are fine, but I get pixels occasionally on 51 and 52.
As I had no problems before I find the situation unacceptable.
How do I make an official complaint?
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Wednesday 24 August 2011 10:43PM
Can someone tell me clear information about HD on the Nottingham transmitter. Is it available and if so on what dates.
Please don't tell me information about other transmitters because I only get Nottingham.
Also why can't I seem to find this information, I have looked really had for it.