All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Charles Stuart: You should have absolutely no problem with reception in your location. I'm not sure what you managed to enter for your postcode, but when it managed to interpret something it put you near Ridgeway Rd. which you aren't. In the Site Setting box on the top RH corner of this page you should find a clickable [CLEAR] next to whatever you put in. You should enter your postcode in the following way BS15 1AZ as an example, that's letters BS figures 15 then space then figure 1 then letters AZ.
If you are using a standard keyboard and using the number pad on the right, make sure you have the Num Lock on.
The aerial should be pointing slightly south of SW so that sounds correct.
You loft aerial installation should be fine if you've not previously experience any problems since April.
When you say the roof aerial is minute, how many element does it seem to have?
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Charles Stuart: Another thought I've had is that since you have moved from Kettering, if any of your equipment has RF outputs, you may well need to re-tune them to other channels as the ones you have, or may be some wierd combination depending on what is switched on may cause interference with reception of the Mendip channels.
Depending on what you have I'd suggest trying channels above 62.
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@jb38
knowing the location, the postcode I provided in my post at 1.27pm is a nearby one. Also considering the "description" of his external aerial (sounds like a 10 element yagi) it is highly improbable that he has too much signal.
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How odd with the postcode, I've put your postcode into my details for this post, so you'll be able to click on the links on the RHS of the post for your information.
As far RF outputs go, the lowest channels possible or above 62 should be ok. If you use above 62 you might have to adjust them in the future when that part of the band gets used for Mobile stuff.
Where C is the channel used for RF you can sometimes get interference on the following C+1, C+5, C+9. But as mentioned earlier, if you have several, sometimes there can be weird coss-modulation products as well, so there may be an element of trial & error.
Have a look on the Aerial link that jb38 gave and see if you can identify yours from there. If it's one of the most common, there are pictures about 2/3 down the page where aerial polarisations are shown or further down - contract aerials. I suppose it might even be a 5-bay X-beam if the directors look like X's.
If all your multiplexes are OK now, you may as well forget the previous problem, the multiplex could have been off-air for a short while and it wasn't reported or you may have had a brief spot of local interference. It's unlikely to be cable degradation as the HD mux on Ch.58 and the BBCA mux on Ch.61 (both higher frequencies)seem ok and higher frequencies are usually affected first.
Hope that helps.
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Carol Richardson: It seems the manual download comes in 2 parts and there is also an Installation Guide and a Quick reference Guide & all are available form Toshiba's website here ftp://195.35.123.32/CCFTP/Manuals/DVD/RECORDER/RD85DT/ Hope that helps.
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Carol Richardson: Hmmm, going direct to that link that I've posted, the site asks for a username and password. So go to Toshiba Leading Innovation. European Distributor Consumer Products
Click on the area on the RHS where it says "Please note if you cannot locate your player it may be a pre-2008 model. Please click here for our old site."
Then click DVD in the Name list. On the next page click RECORDER at the bottom of the list, then click RD85DT and all four documents are listed which you can then download!
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Valerie Sweet: The easiest way do do this (whatever your transmitter)is a full factory reset using the Freeview reset procedure (there is a link below these posts).
If you are only able to receive the Hutton Relay this should be straight forward. If however you can also pick up Wenvoe and have problems with the Welsh BBC1/2 and ITV1 channels in the wrong locations, you would be best doing a manual tune when you get to step 7. If you are having problems with this, try posting on the Hutton transmitter page.
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nige burr: In your location you should have no problem with reception either from Mendip(aerial rods horizontal pointing South) or from Kings Weston (aerial rods vertical pointing West).
As you say how can you get BBC "back" on your freeview boxes, I assume that you could get them previously. If a full reset using the procedure in the link below does not solve the problem, then you may have some sort of interference (or have altered something in you set up?) so try using the other links below these posts.
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Saturday 7 July 2012 9:52AM
Briantist:
please do delete these posts by xander.