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meaty57: This would appear to be a transmitter issue as it only affects people using Pontop Pike. At the end of the change, some change must have happened to cause this and the common factor is the transmitter.
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Peter Jackson: See the Pontop Pike page for DTT. There have been around 10 reports of this issue with the Pontop Pike transmitter in the last 24 hours.
I imagine that Burnhope wasn't used for Freeview because Pontop Pike has always been used since UHF services were introduced. I imagine that it provides better coverage overall.
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meaty57: Try again. A manual scan of C50 might restore it has been reported that started working again at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
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Russell: See:
Digital UK - Planned Engineering Works
Mendip digital TV is "liable to interruption".
I think the clue here is that you have lost signal on two separate aerials.
As the saying goes "do not adjust your set".
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Sue Pullan: The issue seems to be that (I assume) that the two longer runs are proving problematic.
If you are using an unpowered splitter it means that the split isn't even. Whether this is an issue or not depends on whether the signal level(s) at its lowest is great enough to produce a picture, which it appears not to be.
Another factor is the amount of signal that is being lost in the longer runs. If it is thin flexible coax then there will be greater loss than double-screened solid core cable. The stuff you get in kits is the former because it's cheap. See:
Satellite, Television, FM, DAB, Aerial, Coaxial Cable, Plugs, Sockets, Connectors & Leads
It may be that reducing your losses in the cable runs to the kitchen and bedroom will be sufficient to give you reception back.
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Sue Pullan: It could be that there is another cable running parallel or close to the aerial feeds to your bedroom that is being picked up in them and moving it away might help. For example, HDMI, USB, ethernet (computer network).
What sort of splitter are you using?
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milan: You appear to be making an assumption or think that it is likely that one will interfere with the other which is unlikely.
Feed the aerial lead into the recorder and out to the TV like in the days of analogue reception with a VCR and TV.
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milan: It shouldn't be expected to make any difference. It certainly won't stop it passing through because it isn't HD.
If the box has HDMI out, then you should use that because it keeps the signal digital from the box to the TV. Obviously it won't provide a HD picture, but it will be a better choice than using scart.
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Thursday 10 January 2013 12:34PM
Derek: See the comments at the end of the Pontop Pike page. There have been quite a number of reports from people tuned to the transmitter who have lost services from the "SDN" multiplex (which include logical channel numbers 30, 31 and 38).