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Many thanks JB
Please note, all who are trying to help with my problems, I am talking about two separate locations, one five miles north of Orford, one five miles south. The southern one is better, but still poor, apart from stuff put out on ch 41 and 44. Until 27 June, all was fine at both, except for Challenge, Pick, Yesterday, but even they came through, at both, sometimes, since then, it has all gone to pot.
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Please can someone help with this one?
At a location with the aerial on Sudbury but strong signal also from Aldeburgh, my box tunes itself to stations from ch23, Aldeburgh, and then the same channels from Sudbury on ch41.
When I view, which one of these transmitters am I watching? It would not matter except that I would imagine Aldeburgh would be more prone to pixellating, as when we had analogue, the Aldeburgh picture used to break up and be very ghosty as that is not where the aerial is pointed or polarised for.
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Thanks Dave,
It seems to me this is a right muddle, if only freesat had pick, challenge etc.
My aerial at H has no amp, the one at A does.
Jb was kind enough to tell me which channels Sudbury uses, as opposed to what this site tells me it does.
41, 44, 47, 56, 58, 60. Which muxes are using each of these channels? Can I assume that if, for example, Pick was on mux c before the upgrade, so called, it remains on that mux, albeit on a different broadcasting channel, or do the various stations also change muxes periodically? I hate to think of the elderly trying to follow all this messing about and trying to work out where their stations have gone!
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Dave,
Why do you say my box has opted for the Aldeburgh stations from channel 23 rather than those from Sudbury on 41? How do we know which it has decided are best? It is a bit tricky plugging the aerial in when I 'guess' it is near 41 as sometimes I am too early and get ch28, which I don't want either!
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Dave, I have misled you.
I have no Aldeburgh aerial at either of my locations, but the signal is strong. I need to know how to tell whether I am watching the progs from ch 23 or ch41, he latter theoretically being stronger, although I take your point about unplugging the aerial, which gives my fingers a tingle when I plug in.
I cannot find the thing you referred to to tell me which muxes are on which channels, but, one up to me, have found the freesat box can be manually tuned to get Pick and Challenge, both in plus 1 for some reason.
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Can anyone tell me what exactly is included as PSB? Obviously not ITV 3. If the Aldeburgh transmitter included this rather than all the plus ones, Gay Rabbit etc, I would settle for this, rather than all the aggro from Sudbury.
I think if there is a regulator for how this freeview is set up, he must be money for old rope.
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Thanks Dave.
It strikes me that those on Dover are very fortunate. I can get it at the moment, though probably not in the winter, [struggled to get analogue in the winter.] They have their transmitter digitalised and all the channels come through straight away. Here, on Sudbury, they are still piddling about a year after switchover. Dover are also fortunate that all the channels used seem to be within the old group c aerial group, whereas we have to use wideband, and by definition not high gain, aerials to cover channels as far apart as 41 and 60.
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Dave, do you know which stations are classified as public service? Obviously not ITV 3.
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Thanks, Dave, yes, Dover too far from Aldeburgh. Might try Tac if Sud misbehaves.
Guess you don't know what constitutes a psb channel.
Can you tell me what happens if, say, the ITV on channel 23 and 41 are different regions? If the box tunes to both, can I see both and where would I view the second one, channel-wise?
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Monday 2 July 2012 8:24PM
Please would someone say which channels Sudbury is using? The info at the top of the page is useless.