All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Sheebs: You don't connect the two feeds into one; you use one or the other!
A recording device such as Sky+ or Freesat+ requires two feeds so as to be able to receive two different channels simultaneously. The two feeds are identical, so they can be used interchangeably.
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Matt De Luca: Because it carries only Public Service channels. See here for an explanation:
Londonderry (Northern Ireland) digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
It may be worth seeing if you can receive the full service from another transmitter. The power of Whitehawk Hill is greater than the former analogue.
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francis: Maybe or maybe not.
Freeview HD receivers definitely work with Saorview. Some Freeview standard definition receivers will show Saorview pictures.
Saorview pictures are encoded using the MPEG4 standard whereas Freeview standard definition pictures use the earlier MPEG2 format. For this reason, many Freeview SD receivers don't have the capability to resolve MPEG4 pictures. In such a case the signal will be received, albeit with no picture.
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Becky: I would use a AM (MW or LW) radio powered from batteries. Tune it away from a station and listen for any noise. Have it on at the start and end time and see if the start and end of the noise on the radio coincides with the TV signal breaking up, that way you know you are listening to the cause.
AM radios have a ferrite rod in which act as the antenna. They are most sensitive in the axis perpendicular to their length. Hence, if you hold the radio with it facing you, when the sound is the loudest you know that it is coming from in front of, behind, above, or below you (or somewhere on that axis). Spin round to where it is at its quietest and the source of the noise must be from either end of the radio.
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Pete Green: Transmitter engineering is a bot whose job is to scrape the information from official sources. In this case it is from Digital UK, as the presence of its logo denotes.
The information comes from Digital UK's engineering page at:
www.digitaluk.co.uk/engineeringworks
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Patrick: What aerials do you have pointing where?
The transmitter on Sheriff Mountain broadcasts only Public Service (PSB) channels, which does not include ITV3. The only way you will receive ITV3, Pick TV, Film4 and others (which are carried on the Commercial/COM multiplexes) is to receive from Limavady, if indeed this is possible.
See here for an explanation of why the COM channels don't have as great a reach as the PSBs:
Londonderry (Northern Ireland) digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
For a list of which services are PSB and which are COM, see:
DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex
You've posted before about Saorview, which is an added complication. You may be able to receive it from Moville and get away with one horizontally polarised aerial pointing on a bearing somewhere between it and Limavady.
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Pete Green: I suspect that this the "no analogue radio" bit might be a bug in the program that takes the information from its source. I have e-mailed the site owner to make him aware of it.
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Rob: As stated many times on this website, there is a two-tier terrestrial television network in the UK. On the page for the Whitehaven transmitter only last month was this covered:
Whitehaven (Cumbria, England) digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
If you cannot receive the Freeview Commercial channels by using an alternative transmitter then Freesat may be your best bet to expand your viewing choice.
Freesat Freetime is the on-demand service, similar to what YouView is to Freeview:
Freesat :: free time from freesat
The YouView website suggests that a minimum speed of 3Mbps is required. This does not preclude the use of ADSL if it is sufficiently fast enough. Based on your comment I presume that you are too far away from the exchange for ADSL to function.
Is this what you're looking for?:
Home page : Connecting Cumbria
Perhaps write to your MP.
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Rob: According to SamKnows, Whitehaven exchange is due to get fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) this year:
SamKnows - Broadband Availability - Whitehaven (LCWHI) Exchange
However, you may be connected to one of the others. Cleator Moor, for example, does not have a forecast for FTTC.
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Sunday 12 May 2013 8:04PM
Deehcee: As stated on the UKTV "About" page:
Who We Are and What We Do | About UKTV | UKTV Corporate Site
UKTV is "an independent commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. (SNI)."
BBC Worldwide is the commercial arm of the BBC and therefore not funded by the Licence Fee.