All posts by StevensOnln1
Below are all of StevensOnln1's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Bruce: COM7 and COM8 are broadcast at much lower power than the other multiplexes so it may be that you are not receiving quite enough signal, or it could be that you are seeing interference from another source. Do you have the same problem with COM8 on UHF C35?
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Peter Cairns: BBC Radio Scotland is carried on various commercially operated local multiplexes. There isn't currently a local DAB multiplex covering the Highlands and Islands however I believe there are plans to extend coverage once the government have announced a date for a digital radio switchover.
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Richard Cooper: The coverage map for Crystal Palace (Croydon is a backup transmitter and is not a main station) stops far short of Aylesbury so I think it would be unlikely to give good reception. A friend who lives there gets good reception from Oxford and the coverage maps shows good coverage for the whole of Aylesbury and surrounding areas. Sandy Heath also shows as a reasonable alternative for my friend's postcode on the Digital UK checker, although is show as being stronger. If Nikki provides their postcode they will be able to see which is the recommended transmitter for their location.
Don't forget that the transmitter network wasn't originally designed to be regional and was intended simply to cover the highest proportion of the population possible from each main station, with relays having been added later to improve reception in areas that couldn't get good coverage from a main station. Although the BBC and ITV's regional news does get many millions of viewers, many people aren't that bothered about which region they receive and it would probably be of secondary importance for many behind getting the best reception with the largest number of channels. Also, there is always satellite for those who want to watch a region which they can't receive terrestrially.
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Hannah Owen : Retuning was a bad idea as you've now wiped out all the channels that were tuned on your TV. You'll have to keep retuning periodically until your channels return as you'll have no other way of knowing when they are working again, unless you have another TV or box connected to the same aerial which is still tuned.
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James: Dave is not broadcast from the Moss Bank transmitter as it only covers a small number of homes and therefore only provides a basic service of channels from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. If you provide a postcode you'll get a prediction of which transmitters should be available to you and whether any of the carry the commercial multiplex which Dave is broadcast on.
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Nick Wallace: If you click the Digital UK Trade link under your post it will provide the compass bearings of the Craigkelly and Black Hill transmitters which are both predicted as having good reception at your location.
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MikeP: With the congestion all the mobile networks face in busy areas it's hard to claim that they have more spectrum than they need. I agree that DTT and satellite will be around for many years to come, however advances in technology (i.e. DVB-T2 etc) have reduced the amount of spectrum required for DTT and I am looking forward to a future switch of all DTT multiplexes to DVB-T2 so that the current simulcasting of HD and SD channels can end and the remaining DTT spectrum can be better utilised allowing capacity for the channels on COM7 and COM8 to reach a wider audience as well as the further additional capacity that will be created. I'm sure many people will complain about having to buy new equipment, but if we let that hold up progress we would never have the current Freeview service we enjoy now.
Virtually all cars that have DAB radios (or adaptors) also support DAB+ (the standard used by 4 national stations as well as some stations with coverage on various local and trial muxes as well as being used by various other countries across Europe) which is now fitted as standard to over 85% of new cars sold. Of course there are still millions of older (and fairly new) cars on the roads that don't have DAB, however adaptors have come down in price massively over the last few months and will be affordable to most who need them by the time we reach a digital radio switchover, which is still a few years away at least.
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MikeB: I think you've summed it up quite well. The latest figures I've seen put digital radio (all methods combined) at 45.3% of all radio listening and is expected to reach the Government's 50% target next year, which should lead to a date being announced for a digital radio switchover. I expect we'll find out more about the future of DTT and radio for the next few years once the BBC's charter renewal is finally completed.
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David Brigden: Looking at the Digital UK trade prediction for your postcode you would probably be better off pointing your aerial at the Sudbury transmitter to your North. This should give good reception of the main HD channels (assuming your TV or box is actually capable of receiving HD channels - it should have a Freeview HD logo, just saying HD ready isn't enough).
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Tuesday 13 September 2016 10:59AM
IAN: There is currently a transmitter engineering notice for Black Hill warning of possible weak signal. Do not retune as this may cause you to loose channels.