All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
a.blumenfeld: You asked the same question yesterday and an answer was given:
My ITV/C4 Freeview channels have disappeared - what can I do? Is it my SCART cable? | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
The Commercial licence holders don't have an obligation to provide a "Public Service", unlike the Public Service Broadcasters. For this reason, we now have a two-tier terrestrial television transmitter network:
Londonderry (Northern Ireland) digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
Your only chance, if any, is to receive the Commercial channels from Rowridge although, as jb38 said on the other page, reception is predicted as variable.
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Ken Collyer: In response to your comment "but it's not on this page": which is why the text you quoted is followed by a colon and a hyperlink to the page in question.
The changes on this page are those which took place on the date mentioned. I haven't seen the other "emails" you refer to, so can't possibly comment.
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richard caywood: Because it is picking up signal(s) from another transmitter(s) maybe.
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Arnie: You are correct; Whitehawk is only vertically polarised (no horizontal component).
Why would these properties have required their aerials to be replaced? They appear to be in a great spot for reception.
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Terry Cook: The deadline that they have set themselves is 6am. I wouldn't be surprised if it's sorted before then.
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emz : There are no "Freeview" channels on your Sky box because it receives signals from a satellite whereas Freeview is the brand name of the terrestrial system.
An aerial, irrespective of how great it's amplified, will not allow you to watch the output of the Sky box; it doesn't work that way.
If you wish to watch the output of the Sky box in another room, then this will likely be via the normal aerial lead. The TV you are using will need to have an analogue tuner built-in. Analogue is the system used before digital (i.e. before switchover to Freeview).
Rather than running a cable from your lounge to your bedroom, run one from the dish to the bedroom and get a (cheap) Freesat receiver.
Or, alternatively, install a terrestrial aerial for the bedroom (to use with the Freeview receiver built in to the TV).
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G McLaughlin: "We" will not be carrying out anything. This site is independent of broadcasters.
The BBC standard definition services from Huntshaw Cross change frequency on 22 May. This is because the current freqency is to be made available for 4G mobile services.
This is being done as part of a national programme to move such channels onto lower frequencies.
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SteppeFox: The Seagry Court transmitter is a relay of Mendip. Therefore it receives the signal from Mendip and rebroadcasts it on its own channels. Because PSB1 (BBC standard definition services) has changed channel from Mendip, Seagry Court and all its other relays need retuning so that they receive PSB1 on the new channel.
You may find that you can receive the full service directly from Mendip.
Oxford is horizontally polarised (requires aerial horizontal) and Seagry Court is vertically polarised (aerial vertical). So if you are picking up Oxford with the Seagry Court-facing aerial then reception may not be as good as it might because it's the wrong polarisation.
Unfortunately, due to an upcoming channel change with COM4 from Oxford, it might not be feasible to combine the feed from a Seagry Court aerial and one for Oxford (so as to give you West programming and COM channels that Seagry Court doesn't carry).
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Friday 22 March 2013 4:54PM
kirky: Assuming that your aerial is pointing east, to Belmont, have you had your former "analogue" (Group A) aerial replaced with a wideband one?
If not, then perhaps your aerial's sensitivity isn't great enough for 60. How does this compare to the other multiplexes?
COM5 is on C53 which is also quite a way out of Group A, and so may perhaps show lower strength.