All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
J Peter Wilson: As a fellow Yorkshireman I agree.
I watch BBC Look North (Yorkshire) which carries stories and OBs from Whitby, Northallerton, Kirkbymoorside and other parts of "North Yorkshire" despite the fact that it is impossible, or nigh on, to receive that region via terrestrial means.
I am in Donny and like to hear about these places. But of the Yorkshire coast it is only Whitby, Scarborough and possibly Filey which get a mention. I would like to hear of news from further down including Brid and 'ull.
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Briantist: The quoted figure of households with PVRs is 47%, so just under half. It is also claimed that by 1998 85% of households had VCRs.
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Cameron: According to Digital UK these services aren't on air yet from Pontop Pike and there is no date shown (other than "2014").
The new channel will be on lower power than the rest and will be "out of group" as far as the former four analogue channels and current digital ones goes. The latter may mean your aerial may have to be replaced with a wideband, assuming that you are in with a shot at reception.
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Paul Fletcher: As far as Waltham goes, you are just the wrong side of a drop which prevents line-of-sight at 30.7 miles:
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
According to Digital UK, C31 doesn't come on air from Waltham until 25th of this month. It is to be only 8.7kW though.
The local mux is directional and not intended for you. Therefore there is probably nothing you can do.
Sutton Coldfield's new HD channel is on air now on C33 which you might get to some degree, as you appear to have a fairly good path.
If you're using manual tuning and there is an option for DVB-T or DVB-T2 then select the latter for HD channels or it won't find it.
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Briantist: I can't believe what I'm reading!
Look North is the only local news programme I watch, having not watched Calendar for years. I value it greatly. If I didn't have it then I wouldn't know what was going on elsewhere in Yorkshire.
I watch BBC national news broadcast on BBC One, but on occasions watch BBC News channel. I invariably watch Channel 4 News, which gives me my national news.
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David: Because, unfortunately, that is not the way it works.
The engineering solution would be a preference for in-group channels, whereas because 31 to 37 excluding 36 was ringfenced and "sold" to a single operator, this principle being the one that rules.
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charles carrington: Read the reply from Briantist to the question you posed previously.
The signal is directional as the radiation pattern above for "LEH" indicates, so it isn't likely to serve you.
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trevorjharris: I thought the offence was using TV receiving equipment without a Licence, which is not the same as non-payment.
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Don Ellam: Try unplugging the aerial at about 30% of the scan, or once it gets past UHF channel 30.
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Thursday 6 March 2014 5:30PM
Briantist: Are you serious that the majority don't have PVRs (and Sky+ boxes must surely be counted)?
What is being suggested is that some households do not timeshift, which takes us back to the days before VCRs.