All posts by StevensOnln1
Below are all of StevensOnln1's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Les Holden: Forces TV is on the COM8 multiplex, along with BBC Four HD. If you provide a full postcode (SO50 covers a wide area) we can see what the predicted coverage is at your location. It is also on Freesat 165.
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P. Kieran Ward: The Republic of Ireland have their own 700MHz clearance program, although I have no information on when changes will take place or what frequencies the Saorview multiplexes will move to, although it is being co-ordinated with frequency changes in Northern Ireland so you can safely assume that Clermont Carn will vacate UHF 56 before it come into use at Divis.
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Simon L Bradfield: No one on this website has any connection with either the transmitter company or any broadcaster. The power levels of the temporary COM7 & COM8 multiplexes is not going to be increased as this would cause interference with other transmitters. Did the engineer check whether you have a wideband aerial or an older Group A aerial? COM7 & COM8 are now broadcast at the top end of the UHF band whereas the main multiplexes are broadcast at the bottom end, so a Group A aerial designed for the lower end of the UHF band won't give good reception of COM7 & COM8. If you provide a full postcode we can see where you are in relation to the transmitter and your predicted coverage, allowing further advice to be offered.
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John Mitchell: There are no faults showing for either Durris or the Balgownie relay (both are predicted to give a good signal at your location). Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV?
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Les Holden: You're 33km away but are predicted to get a good signal from Rowridge. You need a wideband aerial mounted in horizontal polarity (with the little rods going side to side) pointing due South to get COM7 & COM8. I suspect you currently either have a Group A aerial (which isn't designed to receive UHF channels 55 & 56) or your aerial has been mounted vertically (little rods going up and down). If you can't get Forces TV on Freesat then you have a fault of some sort. If you go through all of the Freesat channels, are there any others which aren't working?
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John : Please provide a full postcode so that we can see the predicted coverage at your location. Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? Do you share a communal aerial with other residents in the same building? If so, have you checked whether anyone else is suffering with the same problem?
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David: Firstly, retuning is the worst thing to do when you loose signal as you are deleting all your correctly tuned channels and just searching for them again, which will never fix anything. Also, no one on this website has any connection with the transmitter company or any broadcaster. If you are loosing signal at the same time each day/week then you are almost certainly suffering with local electrical interference from some piece of equipment either within your home or nearby which is only operating at the weekend. It's very unlikely the be anything at the transmitter as there would be hundreds of people complaining if they lost ITV every weekend.
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Jamie Rose: You're predicted to get a good signal from Crystal Palace, however you will need a wideband aerial as the Group A aerial which you most likely have is not designed to receive the upper part of the UHF band. Nothing strange about that at all. Now 90s is on COM8 because that's the multiplex its owner has paid for it to be on. It can't move to the local mux (UHF channel 35) unless another channel moves/closes as the local muxes run in a different broadcast mode which only gives 9Mbps of bandwidth (enough for around 4 channels - which become 6 due to time sharing).
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Otto: If you give us a full postcode we can see what the predicted coverage is for your location. H and V refer to the polarisation of the aerial, i.e. whether it is mounted horizontally (rods going side to side) or vertically (rods going up and down). In most cases you would be better off fitting a wideband aerial such as a log periodic type rather than a grouped aerial. Unless you know what you're doing, you would probably be better off getting a professional to install an aerial on the roof rather than attempting a DIY job.
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Friday 3 May 2019 9:08AM
David Smith: Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? You should be getting a strong signal at your postcode, so there is most likely a fault or some sort of interference at your end.