All posts by Dave Lindsay
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richard caywood: Looking on Streetview (photos taken August 2012) I can only see one aerial pointing to Emley Moor, which could indicate that it is not so good on your road. Some parts slope down, so what may and may not be possible may vary along its length.
From what I can see there are a few Belmont aerials and quite a few Beecroft Hill aerials.
The buildings in and around Elmfield Way appear as if the may be on higher ground and in the signal path. See and click link "view a map of area between SE251359 and SE222128":
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
This higher ground would appear to be a brow over which you are trying to receive.
Has some building recently been built or is in the process of being built?
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gary: Information on getting a refund of your TV Licence is here:
TV Licensing - How to tell us you don't watch TV
Note the reminder at the top which says that it will be illegal for you to view live television, irrespective of broadcaster.
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David: If your aerial points to the Tacolneston transmitter, have you confirmed that it is indeed tuned to Tacolneston for all channels?
If it is then retuning is a waste of time. If it isn't then carrying the same automatic tuning procedure may well yield the same incorrect result. As Einstein said: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"!
Bring up the signal strength screen on the following services and observe the UHF channel that it is tuned to. The following channels are for Tacolneston:
BBC One = C55
ITV = C59
BBC One HD = C50
ITV3 = C42
Pick TV = C45
Film4 = C39
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Ian: I would suggest that you will probably have to use the power supply that came with the aerial.
When you say that you get no signal, have you also disconnected the aerial's power supply? If so then it isn't likely to give any signal out.
What is the make and model of the recorder? Knowledge of this may allow the user manual to be found online so we may suggest how you might proceed.
Have you successfully tuned in the recorder?
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Bernadette Newby: Why do you "have" to retune? What are the symptoms??? You are leaving us to guess by keeping us in the dark!
There are quite a few complaints of receivers, particularly Philips ones, 'forgetting' channels when they are powered down? Is this the case here? I guess that it is likely to affect ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV 2 and other services on PSB2 multiplex.
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Ian: I have found the manual for your Philips recorder here:
http://download.p4c.phili….pdf
The 5V power that it puts out comes from the Antenna In connection and is therefore fed up the aerial lead into the aerial. Unless the aerial (complete with in-built amplifier, which this has) is designed to accept 5V, and does not take more than 50mA, then it won't work and you will have to use the aerial's own power supply (with the function turned off on the recorder).
Where the aerial feeds into a recorder (or other box) and out and then into the TV, the box must continue to allow the signal to pass through whilst in standby. In some cases there are settings to disable the signal pass-through while in standby. You will, of course, need to keep the Philips box powered in order to watch the TV, if you have it daisy-chained on the aerial lead.
I can't find any information on any settings about this in the manual.
HDMI cables can cause interference in aerial leads when in close proximity which can affect signals. Try removing the HDMI lead from the equation to see whether this makes any difference.
What does the signal strength read on the TV when it is connected directly to the aerial? And what does it show when you feed it via the recorder? Check BBC One and ITV.
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Patrick: I typed <<dab northern ireland>> into Google and the first link that came up was:
Ofcom | Extending DAB Services in Northern Ireland - Request to extend coverage area of national radio multiplex service
I believe that Ofcom has recently been consulting on improvement to regional and local DAB multiplexes.
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KMJ,Derby: Thanks for pointing that out. As you may have gathered, I didn't look the contents before posting the link.
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John: Dave is carried on COM5 multiplex. Have you replaced your Group A aerial with a Group K or wideband one? Do you receive COM4 (ITV3 etc) and COM6 (Film4 etc)?
I covered the post-switchover signals from Bilsdale not all being on Group A channels here:
Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) full-Freeview transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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Tuesday 14 May 2013 10:42AM
richard caywood: What you are describing could suggest too high a signal level:
Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | Digital switchover | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice