All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Jonathan Snowden: If it's happened just the once then I'd say it was some administrative error in feeding the feeds where they should be fed.
Perhaps the "master" feed is that which is given to BBC News channel and that the BBC East opt-out wasn't slipped in -- maybe the presenter was talking to the camera but no one was watching!
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Jonathan Snowden: How often did it happen for? Perhaps the opt-out switch is automated and the thing was not set-up correctly and it took them however long to become aware of this.
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M Dainty: See:
Digital UK - Planned Engineering Works
Heathfield: "Possible weak signal"
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john mcarthur: Perhaps because your aerial points to Bilsdale rather than Pontop Pike.
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john mcarthur: Sorry, that should be the other way around. Made in Tyne and Wear is from Pontop Pike and Made in Teesside is from Bilsdale. To get Made in Teesside you will need to have your aerial facing Bilsdale. I'm not sure whether Made in Teesside is on air yet.
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Joan: It won't. COM7 (and forthcoming COM8) multiplexes have been built on a shoestring due to their expected short lifespan of only five years. At that time frequencies might get re-jigged and Sudbury might get other services such as carried on COM7.
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Tony Franklin: There's no such thing as a "digital aerial", as against an "analogue aerial". Aerials work by frequency.
Do a manual tune on UHF channel 24 which is PSB1 (BBC standard definition TV and radio) from Rowridge, Isle of Wight. Enter/select C24 but don't press the button to scan/add services, rather wait and see what the indication as to strength and quality is. In this state the device acts like a signal meter and you should be able to move the aerial and see the readings change -- give it several seconds to catch up when you move it.
If you still get absolutely nothing then is there a signal amplifier connected inline which isn't powered as this is likely to result in no signal, even where the aerial is picking one up?
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Tony Franklin: I should add that if this aerial is on a static caravan and has always pointed to Rowridge, then at switchover no change of aerial would be required as all digital channels are in the same portion of the frequency band as they were for analogue.
(For some transmitters this isn't so thus "some" users of those transmitters may find that a different aerial, e.g. wideband, is necessary.)
If you're in the market for a new aerial then see here:
TV Aerials for Boats and Caravans
Other retailers are available. Judging by your location I'd say a log periodic should do just fine with no requirement to amplify, this being if it's a static caravan.
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Sunday 15 March 2015 4:27PM
Bob Story: Vertically. The transmitter can be seen on StreetView to the east on the hill.