All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
I have a Sony RDR-HXD870 and am served by Emley Moor. I haven't seen any messages telling me to retune and I haven't retuned either.
I don't intend to retune as every time I do this I have to skip all those I don't want and set the timer for the programmes that were set before carrying out the retune.
It is absolutely ridiculous that this reform of the numbering is being carried out on more than one day.
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Mark: Try doing a manual tune on UHF channel 58. For some receivers the user needs to tell them which mode is being used.
DVB-T is what standard definition is in and DVB-T2 are HD broadcasts so if there is such a setting for the manual tuning function, then make sure it is set to the latter before scanning on C58.
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Douglas Angwin: Click the link "Digital UK Tradeview" by your posting. Redruth is at 274° although remember that Magnetic North moves and therefore your compass may not be exact.
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blondie: Freesat boxes ask for the post code only so as to select regional services.
Where a postcode is not recognised or where it gives regional programming other than that which the user wants, then simply enter another postcode that is within the desired region.
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Gill W: See Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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Mick Carter: In which case your TV must have tuned to a transmitter other than your own.
Without knowing where you are or which transmitter you have your aerial directed to, I cannot be very certain.
However, if your aerial is directed to Whitehawk Hill, then Rowridge may have been tuned in instead. You can find this out by viewing the signal strength screen whilst on BBC One. For Whitehawk it will say that it is tuned to UHF channel 60, whereas for Rowridge it will be tuned to C24. Other channels (those other than the BBC) may also be tuned incorrectly for the same reason.
Rowridge uses all low UHF channels (frequencies) and Whitehawk, high ones. Thus, if you do find that you are tuned to Rowridge when you require Whitehawk, run the automatic tuning scan with the aerial unplugged for the first 50%.
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On every transmitter page below the coverage map, under the heading "<transmitter name> transmitter Freeview broadcasts", it says "If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first" which links to this page.
Is this not a bad idea as in general, loss of signal is down to any but a fault with the receiver somehow loosing its memory as far as tuned channels goes?
People come on this website saying that they lost signal and then retuned thereby wiping the memory. They are shooting themselves in the foot as they are probably creating a second problem.
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Mr Gilligan: Indeed there is as others have reported on the transmitter's own page: Kilvey Hill
Now you've rescanned you will have to do this until all channels are back but they will only become available when the transmitter is back. But, perhaps other than viewing this website, you won't know when the transmitter is back because your TV isn't tuned, which means you may end up carrying out repeated retunes.
As I said in my posting immediately above yours, rescanning in such a situation only ever serves to make the problem worse. It is shooting oneself in the foot.
Had the TV been left, then all you would have had to have done was view the channels to see if they were back.
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Wednesday 19 September 2012 3:02PM
Ron Gibbs: Unfortunately not.
There are now two types of broadcaster in the UK: Public Service (PSB) and Commercial (COM).
The Commercial ones are purely profit-driven organisations and the Public Service ones, as the name implies, have a Public Service obligation.
The COM channels achieve coverage of 90% of the population by broadcasting from 81 of the largest transmitters (largest by viewer population).
There are over 1,000 PSB-only relays like West Runton which serve about 8.5% of the population. For the COMs to add them to their portfolio would roughly double their cost of transmission. As they operate purely for profit derived from advertisers which requires viewers, then they wish to acquire most viewers at lowest possible cost. For this reason it isn't surprising that they don't wish to double their cost of transmission in order to add about 10% to their existing viewer base.
Along the North Norfolk coast Belmont comes in well and this is a full-service transmitter. It is, as you may know, a transmitter for the Yorkshire region.
In some cases where reception from two transmitters is possible, the feeds from each aerial can be combined. This requires the signals from each transmitter to be in different parts of the band.
West Runton uses low (Group A) UHF channels (frequencies) and COM5 and COM6 from Belmont are C/D ones (high channels) and this means that the two aerial approach will work. (This obviously assumes that reception from both transmitters is possible.)
However, because COM4 from Belmont is low down in Group A, it will be unavailable.
For a list of which services are carried on which multiplex, see:
DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex
For example, ITV3 is on COM4, Pick TV is on COM5 and Yesterday is on COM6.
Your other possibility is to have a Belmont aerial fitted (assuming reception is possible) but not combine it with West Runton. This will mean that you will need at least two receivers.
For example, if you have a recorder, you may have this tuned to Belmont. The West Runton aerial may feed a simple set-top box receiver thus allowing you to switch to it when there are regional variations you wish to view.