All posts by StevensOnln1
Below are all of StevensOnln1's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
silvano webb: It means that your TV isn't receiving a signal, probably because something was damaged by the storm. Is your aerial still pointing the same way as your neighbours aerials? It may have been blown out of alignment by the high winds or the cable may have been damaged or be letting water in causing a short circuit.
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Paul Teti: We need a postcode to see what your predicted coverage is and whether aligning your aerial on an alternative transmitter would indeed give you more channels. Having a dish and cabling installed for Freesat probably wouldn't be any more expensive than having your aerial changed (unless you have any trees or tall buildings blocking the satellite signal, making it necessary to locate the dish further away or higher up) but you would probably have to buy a Freesat box (unless your TV has a built in satellite tuner and you don't want a separate PVR for recording).
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Carole Redgrift: What's the make and model of your TV? You might be able to connect your loop amp directly to the TV (possibly via a converter as suggested by Neil). Alternatively, does your DVD player have similar red and white output connectors on the back? If it does, you could use an audio switch to connect your loop amp to both the Tivo and DVD player and use the switch to select which one you hear the sound from.
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Mr. R. Rigby: Channel 87 is Keep It Country (this is the page for CBS Reality +1) which is on the COM7 multiplex along with BBC News HD, BBC Four HD, Channel 4 +1 HD, 4seven HD and several others. Are any of these channels missing or are they all working?
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Mark Tennent: If you are seeing 100% signal strength then you have too much signal and your TV's tuner is becoming overloaded and is unable to cope. If your amplifier has a variable gain control, turn it down until you can receive all channels without breakup (select BBC1 on your TV then view the signal strength and adjust the amplifier until strength is down to around 75% then check all the other channels are still working - you'll probably find all have a similar strength but may vary by a few %).
If your amplifier doesn't have a variable gain, you'll need an attenuator to reduce the signal strength such as the one linked below which should be connected somewhere between the amplifier and TV (you'll need one per TV if they're fed by separate outputs from your amplifier rather than one amplifier output going into a splitter).
6dB Coax Plug Inline ATTENUATOR: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics
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Mr. R. Rigby: In that case, I would suggest carrying out a reset in order to clear any glitches in tuning data etc. Make a note of any scheduled recordings as they will need to be set again when the reset is completed, then unplug the aerial from your Youview box and run a first time/full channel scan to wipe all your existing channels. The reconnect the aerial and run a full scan again which should find and store all available channels with fresh tuning data.
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Mark Tennent: You could try bypassing the amplifier (just turning it off and leaving it connected will block any signal going through it) and see whether you have enough signal strength on all your TVs without it.
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MikeP: Presumably you'd include services like Netflix and Amazon Video which have never been involved in traditional broadcasting in the list of services that would require a TV licence then? The purpose of requiring a TV licence for watching iPlayer is to ensure that everyone who watches BBC programs contributes to funding the ad-free content that they are enjoying. Commercial catchup and streaming services are already funded by the viewer either having to pay for access or being required to watch ads before/during the program. The BBC never asked the government to bring any other catchup services within the scope of TV licensing when they asked for iPlayer to be included in order to partially offset the reduction in funding the BBC will suffer when they have to take over responsibility for the government's social policy of providing free TV licences for the over 75s.
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John Street: There are no faults showing for the Hannington transmitter which you've posted against, but if you provide a postcode we'll be able to see which other transmitters you can receive, as DAB radios receive a combined signal from multiple transmitters. Are you using a telescopic or wire aerial attached to the radio, or is connected to an aerial on the roof or in the loft?
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Saturday 25 February 2017 4:12PM
Bob: LBC is broadcast on the D1 national multiplex which has coverage over most of the West Midlands, so please provide a postcode and we can see what coverage is predicted at your exact location.