All posts by Jim F
Below are all of Jim F's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Wutty: I haven't used stackers/destackers, but have heard lots of bad stories where they don't work reliably (short cable runs generally OK, long cable runs tricky / impossible). SCR uses much more credible technology and would be my choice (if the option of adding a second cable wasn't available). Disadvantage of SCR is that it needs an SCR friendly Sky box, as well as the extra bits at both ends of the single coax run. Spare ports on the existing multiswitches will rapidly get used up, so you'll probably need new ones to provide the extra feeds before long (which will be at communal expense).
Stacker/destacker would work (well, maybe) for Freesat+ which SCR doesn't.
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Peter Dolman: Final power for the COM MUXs will be 25kW. Power-up is scheduled for 18th April next year.
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Chris.SE: Sony Bravia has an option "Program List Edit" which allows users to "remove or change the order of the digital channels shown" (I wasn't sure if this is what Lisa was doing).
Editing the channel list isn't the same as a "default setting / factory reset" which doesn't necessarily appear on the Bravia. Auto tuning on all the Bravia sets I've seen does remove and replace the existing channels.
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Jane Hore: Your TV set (even though its new) could well be faulty - it does happen. If you could borrow a digibox from somewhere, you could use that connected to your TV via a SCART lead to test the incoming signal (if the digibox works fine then the TV's tuner / decoder is duff).
The other option would be to take your TV to someone with a known good signal (neighbour?) and see if it's still playing up.
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David: Those blue leads have given me trouble before - I've always assumed it was due to either the braid becoming broken or the centre core (or possibly both). It seems to happen when the lead has been bent close to one of the plugs - waggling the lead may momentarily get the signal back again, and repositioning (e.g. for a test with a meter) can also make it seem OK (but useless once its plugged back into the wall and is bent again).
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David Meadows: The Humax HDRFOXT2 manual tuning menu has an entry for "Transmission", which you have to change to DVB-T2 to be able to decode the HD programmes. The standard definition programmes use the DVB-T setting.
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Michael Pearce: Worth checking the clock settings (somewhere in the setup menu I think) - I've seen a similar unit where the clock default is "automatic: OFF". If you set it to "automatic: ON" it should then populate the programme guide etc.
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Rod Roberts: Your postcode should get a good signal from Mendip, but you're very nearly in line with the Westwood relay transmitter (Bradford on Avon).
Have you tried a manual tune for the Mendip channels rather than an autotune (which might pick up Westwood)?
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mike: What software version is showing on your Humax (menu, system, status)? It should show version 1.00.26 (7th July 2011).
The behaviour you describe can happen if the software is a previous version.
Humax "over the air" updates were being transmitted last week, but don't seem to be running this week (you can check on http://www.dtg.org.uk/ind…hp).
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Friday 7 October 2011 7:32PM
Lisa: Not sure what you doing when you're "removing" channels.
Reception in Devizes should be from the Mendip transmitter.
Don't "remove" any channels - press Menu, then Setup, then Digital Set-up. If you now select the Technical Information option, you can choose the System Information to have a look at the channel numbers corresponding to various programmes.
For Mendip, BBC1 is on UHF Ch. 61, ITV is on UHF Ch. 54, ITV3 (LCN10) is on UHF Ch. 48, Pick TV (LCN11) is on UHF Ch. 56 & Yesterday & Film4 (LCN12 & 15) are on UHF Ch. 52.
If any of the channel numbers are wrong, you're on the wrong transmitter, but I'd expect a normal auto tune to bring these in correctly.
Auto tuning should delete all the existing channels before rescanning. If you have a duff MUX with a low UHF channel number, pull the aerial out before starting the scan and put it back in when the scan is about half-way across.