All posts by John
Below are all of John's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Steve - Thanks for that info Steve. I already have a powered splitter box, should that do the same job as a cheap booster?
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KMJ / Steve. Thanks very much for those comments. I have checked the fly leads and they are the good quality ones. Today it seems a lot better so I do agree with you in that it maybe an outside influence or possibly just atmospherics. Also, I ran into someone from the other side of our town who said they were having the same thing yesterday so my money is on the weather. Thanks again for the advice.
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The Oxford transmitter is changing to digital this month and there's a message to re-tune our boxes on 14th and 28th. I've noticed though that the ITV channels are freezing a lot more than normal this week and wondered if this is likely to be something to do with the change over?
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I live in HP21 area and the Mux A channels have been unwatchable for the last few days. I'm not going to re-tune or do anything until the switchover has finished. Just thought I'd post this so others can see they are not alone in losing channels at the moment.
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Briantist. My postcode is HP21 9TZ. It's mainly ITV3 which is unwatchable and even sometimes shows no signal at all. It used to be fine so I have to assume it's something to do with the switchover as all my other channels are ok. I've got a new aerial, leads etc. I'll wait until the switchover is finished before I try anything else. Thanks for your response.
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Mike Dimmick. Thanks for that advice, you may well be right and I will certainly try it. I have got a powered splitter so I'll begin by changing it to an unpowered one before putting in an attenuator. Then wait on the final switchover to see how all channels are. Thanks again
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Mike Dimmick. I have now tried taking out the powered splitter and have the aerial plugged directly into the freeview box (humax PVR). I had to manually tune again to get the oxford channels as it still wanted to pick up the Sandy channels first. All channels seem ok and are showing 100% quality and about 80% strength except the Mux A channels. It is not finding them at all and showing the signal strength and quality often jumping to '0' or very very low. So it doesn't seem that the splitter box made a difference.
I've checked the frequency which is set at 714000 but can't think of anything else to try. Do you think it could be the aerial direction is slightly wrong?
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Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitterWednesday 14 September 2011 4:34PM
Aylesbury
Steve. I'm in Aylesbury too, HP21 9TZ and have lost channels too. Mainly channels on Mux A and C (listed above on this page) are the ones missing.
I've put a meter on my main aerial lead which shows a weak signal so it may be best to wait now until the final switchover before changing anything.
I also went to Michael Day's Aerials in Aylesbury today who confirmed he is getting quite a few similar problems.
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Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitterWednesday 14 September 2011 9:29PM
Aylesbury
Briantist. Is it is normal for me to be showing a weak signal on a signal detection meter at this time at postcode HP21 9TZ.? The meter shows weak directly off the aerial but just in the normal range when off the booster.
I only ask as some people near to me can still get the Mux A channels and I can't at all.
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Saturday 4 June 2011 8:23PM
Aylesbury
I'm in Aylesbury and receive from the Oxford transmitter. I have a new aerial and new good quality cable and all has worked well for the past couple of months. I am now getting a small amount of picture freezing on some channels, usually, ITV, ITV3, Channel 4, Challenge and maybe a couple of others. The BBC channels are always fine. When I check my signal and quality strength on the freezing channels they usually show 76% strength and 100% Quality. Am I right in assuming the problem is not my end? All my neighbours are on cable so I've nobody local to ask. Thanks for any advice.