All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Will: Which is a messy solution. The moral is when purchasing such a device to ensure that it has manual timer recording facility.
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k: The postcode is only required in order to give you the regional programming for your location. Try entering another postcode.
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Mike: In addition to the response given by jb38, it is worth pointing out that Bilsdale currently has ongoing engineering works which could affect your reception.
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MikeP: Judging by the radiation pattern and ensuing coverage map above, it would appear that the Calne transmitter does serve JamesD.
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D Hardy: It isn't necessarily the case that your aerial is not pointing to Winter Hill.
Even with an aerial pointing to a particular transmitter and providing a good signal, a receiver can "decide" to go with a different one during the automatic tuning scan. It is worth noting that Ladder Hill's channels are lower than Winter Hill's and so are picked up earlier during the scan.
Winter Hill is on a bearing of 309 degrees and Moel y Parc is at 255 degrees.
Try manual scans of Winter Hill's UHF channels. Digital UK predictor doesn't rate them although I'm somewhat sceptical that predicted interference from another transmitter could be playing its part in the prediction.
If your Romiley aerial is a Group B one (yellow tip) then it won't be best for Winter Hill:
Aerials, TV Aerial and Digital Aerial
Winter Hill is all Group C/D, although with the possibility that in the future the rest of C/D could be sold off for mobile services it is wise to use a Group E or even wideband.
If you can receive COM channels from Moel y Parc you could diplex that aerial with one on Ladder Hill to give you North West programming.
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D Hardy: Receiving channels from Winter Hill or Moel y Parc come with the warning that it might not work or might be intermittent, perhaps seasonal.
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Nicholas Willmott: There is another factor and that is the availability of suitable broadcast channels, C31 through to C37 (C36 excepted) being used exclusively.
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Wednesday 20 November 2013 4:38PM
Reilly: I suspect that Will is correct - it is down to the data the broadcaster is putting out.
I have had the same thing happen in the past with a Freeview PVR which has series link enabled.
The workaround may be to cancel the link to the EPG and instead set a timed recording. This obviously does mean that if the broadcast time is changed that the recording time won't change accordingly.