All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Emma: Great to hear it!
Last Saturday's Doctor Who is repeated tomorrow night on BBC Three at 7.15. ;-)
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Mr R.A. Shergold: I think that you need to speak to the party responsible for the aerial system. The issue clearly lies with it and so there is nothing you can do.
Sometimes communal aerial systems need adjustment where new frequencies come into use, as is the case here.
If a set is tuned correctly then there is nothing to be gained by retuned - it is a waste of time and effort. For BBC standard definition (non-HD) services the signal strength screen should say that it is tuned to UHF channel 49 (698MHz). If that is what it is on then retuning will achieve nothing.
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Jayne Wilks: It's possible. The page on this site for the Clearwell relay TV transmitter has not recorded it being off since last Wednesday when the retune was required.
But according to 'Sitefinder' Mobile Phone Base Station Database , the station is also home to GSM (2G) base stations for Orange and Vodafone. A power outage to the site would be likely to knock them all out. Or maybe there has been engineering works which has necessitated the transmitters to be switched off.
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Mary Martin: If you unplug your aerial when the automatic tuning scan gets to 30% it will avoid picking up the Welsh channels.
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Di Stanley: Emley Moor is definately broadcasting messages and these appear on BBC One. I don't know whether these also appear on Belmont which is a different region.
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brendan: No. The dish can be used for Sky's subscription service, "Freesat from Sky" or "Freesat". I would expect that, unless they say they will leave it for you then they will take it.
For Freesat from Sky you have to pay a one-off charge for a viewing card:
FREESAT from Sky - Call now to order
Note the dagger which denotes:
"For security reasons Viewing Cards may be inactivated from time to time. In this situation, if you wish to continue to receive all the encrypted Free to View channels, you will have to purchase a new viewing card at our then applicable standard charge."
So, for "security reasons" you may have to pay again in the future!
Personally, between the two I would go for Freesat; I wouldn't want to take the risk of having to pay for the aforementioned security.
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Rob: Communal aerial systems may need adjustment to work with the new channel. This could, perhaps, explain why a hotel may have lost access to BBC services.
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David Preedy: No because EE's current 4G network uses some of its 1,800MHz frequency allocation which is what it uses for GSM (2G).
It is only 4G services that will operate at 800MHz that are likely to affect some TV receivers due to TV signals being just below that band of frequencies. So it isn't the case that 4G services will interfere over that of any other service, but the fact that the frequencies used are at the top end of the TV spectrum.
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Thursday 4 April 2013 1:09PM
B.BUSSETTI: Scart connection should be used over that of analogue RF out as it provides better quality picture and stereo sound.
In such circumstances the RF out should be set to off, if that is an option.