All posts by StevensOnln1
Below are all of StevensOnln1's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Angus Cameron: The satellites that broadcast Sky/Freesat channels to the UK have plenty of overspill into Belgium so it should be possible to receive most UK channels there although you may need a bigger satellite dish to ensure you are receiving sufficient signal to avoid breakup in bad weather. I gather that some UK channels are also carried by cable TV operators in some parts of Europe so that may be worth investigating too.
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Michael: If your TV has no HDMI connection and the box you're buying has no SCART connection, then yes you will need an adaptor. According to Argos's website, the Bush HD Set Top Box @ 39.99 has both HDMI and SCART connections on the back, although for the Bush Freeview Play Zapper Box @ 79.99 I couldn't see any information on what connections it has on the back (other than HDMI and ethernet).
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Martin Longmore: Does your TV have a manual tuning function? If it does, run an auto tune with the aerial unplugged to clear all the Sandy Heath channels, then run a manual tune on each of Oxford's frequencies to store those channels instead.
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Paul : Please provide a full postcode so we can see the signal prediction for your exact location. Half a postcode covers a wide area and doesn't give us enough information to offer any meaningful advice.
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Julie Cotterill: It does seem very likely that you are suffering from electrical interference from something being used nearby in the mornings. I would suggest checking within your own property and with your neighbours for anything being used during these times and see whether turning it off restores your signal.
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Helen wraith: There is no such thing as a digital aerial, it's just a piece of metal that picks up signals and doesn't know or care what they are. If someone told you that you needed a new aerial specifically for digital TV then they were out to mislead you in to paying for a completely unnecessary new aerial if your old one was working fine for analogue channels. Retuning was a bad idea as you've now deleted the channels which were tuned correctly and leaves you with no easy way of knowing when the problem is fixed, unless you have another TV which still has Dave and Sky News showing in the TV guide?
The coverage prediction for your postcode shows that you should get a better signal for Dave, Sky News, etc if your aerial is mounted in the vertical polarity (i.e. with the little rods pointing up and down) rather than horizontal (little rods going side to side).
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JohnH: Capacity on the commercial multiplexes (COM4-8) is sold to broadcasters on a commercial basis by the multiplex operators. There is no other logic to which channels are allocated where, other than what level of coverage each broadcaster is able/willing to pay for. The local multiplexes use a different transmission mode which is more robust and may explain why you can receive it but not COM7/8.
Helen wraith: There are no faults showing for Rowridge, and being a major transmitter broadcasting to over 600,000 homes it certainly wouldn't be allowed to have a fault unresolved for several weeks. The problem is at your end and no one else is going to fix it unless you take action yourself. If you've checked all your cables and connections and the problem is affecting multiple TVs then it's likely that the fault lies with your aerial or spliiter/amplifier or the cabling that distributes the signal around your home.
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Damodar Shanbhag: Where are you located (please provide a postcode), which channels were you receiving and how were you receiving them (aerial/satellite dish etc)?
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S-J: You'd have to ask the broadcaster, but given that they reduced their DAB coverage last year, I think it's unlikely that Absolute 80s would join Freeview.
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Sunday 30 April 2017 7:42PM
Karen: Is this for just one channel or for every channel? If it's just one channel, it may just be that the broadcaster hasn't confirmed their schedule for next weekend yet.