All posts by StevensOnln1
Below are all of StevensOnln1's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
joe deehan: You are most likely receiving a different transmitter at each location and will therefore need to carry out a full retune when moving the TV as each transmitter broadcasts on different frequencies.
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Duncan Macpherson: Planet Rock and Absolute 80s moved to the new SDL multiplex earlier this year. Both stations are available to listen online or via Sky/Freesat. Unfortunately SDL doesn't have any coverage in Inverness. Team Rock left DAB around 18 months ago but still broadcasts online, however the company is currently in administration so it may well close completely unless a new owner can be found to continue the station.
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A I Gilmour: This website is independent and has nothing to do with any broadcaster or transmitter company, therefore the problem you are experiencing cannot be caused by anything to do with this website nor we can't send an engineer to investigate. If you look at the transmitter engineering posts above yours, you'll see that they are already aware of a fault.
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R.Morgan: By retuning you will have deleted all your channels which were correctly tuned and as such is the worst thing to do when a sudden loss of signal occurs. You will now have to keep retuning periodically until your channels return (unless you have access to another TV which hasn't been retuned yet) as you will have no way of knowing when the problem has been resolved with a TV which isn't tuned.
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Bill walters: Jazz FM has never been on Freeview. Do you mean Freesat? Jazz FM used to be on Freesat but was removed recently, however most Freesat receivers will allow you to manually tune in free to air TV and radio stations which aren't already listed on the program guide.
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John Alexander: BBC Four HD won't be expanding it's coverage any time soon as it is broadcast on a temporary commercial multiplex (COM7) which is only available from 30 main transmitters covering around 70% of the UK population. This arrangement is expected to remain until sometime around the end of the decade when the BBC want to cease SD transmissions which will free up capacity for all BBC channels to broadcast in HD with full national coverage.
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Karen Williams: No plans have been announced for any transmitters to be upgraded to receive more channels and it's unlikely that this will change. The operators of the COM4, COM5 and COM6 commercial multiplexes were given the opportunity to expand their coverage from 80 transmitters to 200 at digital switchover but they declined to do so, presumably because they didn't think it would be profitable enough after all the costs they would incur. If you want more channels without subscribing to Sky, you should look at getting Freesat.
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Paul: No HD channels have been taken away from Midhurst or any other transmitter. BBC One HD, BBC Two HD, ITV HD, Channel 4 HD, Channel 5 HD & CBBC HD are broadcast on the PSB3 multiplex from every transmitter and have nothing to do with the availability or COM7 & COM8. PSB3 is broadcast from Midhurst on C58 at 20kW (the same power level as PSB1 & PSB2). If you have lost this for an extended period of time then you have a fault with your aerial system, which no amount of upgrading at the transmitter will fix.
Also, COM7 & COM8 will never be coming to Midhurst or any transmitter other than the 30 main sites which broadcast both muxes to around 70% of households. This is because both are temporary services which will be closing in 2020 and were never planned to have any further coverage due to the cost involved and lack of available broadcast frequencies (which aren't available beyond 2020 anyway).
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Robert Goulden: Any new relay transmitters built will only carry the public service channels, not the commercial channels which you refer to. Please provide a postcode so we can see the reception prediction for your location and which transmitters are available to you, so that further advice can be offered.
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Monday 26 December 2016 11:26AM
Pauline Scuffell: If you're referring to an Amazon Fire TV stick, it uses your internet connection via wifi and doesn't receive TV broadcasts from a terrestrial transmitter or satellite dish. As long as you have sufficient internet speed you can use one anywhere.