All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
David Parker: If your receiver doesn't automatically add them, then manually tune to channel 48 and it will hopefully add this new service.
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Rob R: Yes, that is correct, Whitehawk is by the racecourse.
41 and 47 are from the "Brighton Central" transmitter which is a filler-in that doesn't carry all the services now and did not carry any Freeview before. Brighton Central is on the top of Theobald House, so your aerial will be pointing roughly in the direction of the railway station.
If you are to ever get all the channels, you need an aerial on Whitehawk.
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Ben Ward: Check that the receivers are tuned to the channels used by Mendip and not Bath.
You should only need to check BBC One, ITV1, BBC One HD (if applicable), ITV3, Pick TV and Yesterday. The UHF channel numbers are at the top of this page.
Mike Dimmick: For some reason the DUK Tradeview predictor suggests four digital transmitters at Ben's location, but only gives a reception prediction for Mendip.
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Linda Parsons: What's the make and model of the box?
This reminds me of a Panasonic box that I have. Having tuned, there was, it seemed at first, no way to get rid of the on screen display window. Eventually I figured out that the only way forward was to select the option to program in a code (IIRC a house code), but it didn't make that clear! Most people would have probably given up and thrown it away.
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Andrew Benham: This is because at switchover those BBC services move from one multiplex to another. Thus, they are presently duplicated until 18th April. This happens from all transmitters as part of the switchover process.
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Linda, Thea, Matt: Just out of interest (maybe a long shot at a fix), when you run the tuning scan, unplug the aerial when it gets to 30%. Once completed plug the aerial back in. Then let us know whether this works or not.
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Linda, Thea, Matt (and others with the same issue): In addition to knowing whether my suggestion of unplugging the aerial at 30% solves the problem, it would be useful to know the make and model number of the problematic box or TV.
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Hugh: "HD Ready" means that it is "ready" to display HD pictures, but does not have the means to receive HD signals. It will therefore need a separate HD receiver box.
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Big Mart: I suspect that the 14 comes from the BBC duplicates that exist inbetween the two stages of switchover.
Prior to switchover BBC Four, CBeebies, BBC Parliament and BBC radio are on Mux B but move to the main BBC standard definition mux at switchover. This is the one you have now, along with the pre-switchover Mux B.
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Tuesday 3 April 2012 6:03PM
David Parker: It probably depends on the design of your machine. My Sony RDR-HXD870 had stored 4seven as LCN804 as there was another in 47, so I just swapped them and skipped the 804 one. I also skip the shopping channels, adult channels, data channels (UK Racing etc).