All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
S Owens: Unfortunately it won't. The PSBs are available to all where the former four-analogue channels were. The COM channels fit in where possible.
Unfortunately some can't get the COMs and others, such as you find that they aren't reliably available because they are interfered with. In some cases it is possible to use a different transmitter, but at your location there is only Brougher and "perhaps" Divis.
See here for more of an explanation:
Londonderry (Northern Ireland) Freeview Light transmitter | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
The only suggestion I can make, and this isn't forced to work and is certainly a bodge, is to turn the aerial to face Divis. Then tune in Divis' COM channels and Brougher's PSBs, the latter being picked up of the back of the aerial which could potentially cause unreliable reception.
Or, having done this you may be able to pick up all of Divis' channels, or you might find that its PSBs are interfered with at some times by Brougher's COMs.
As I say, it's not ideal but then you don't have a lot of choice.
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paul: Is this a communal block? If so then maybe the electrical circuit that the distribution amplifier runs from has tripped. In any case, contact the party responsible such as your landlord.
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Bill: You are not alone in the area in reporting issues with radio reception:
Newhaven (East Sussex, England) DAB transmitter | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
Saltdean (Brighton and Hove, England) Freeview Light transmitter | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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Andrew : Each DAB multiplex operates as a "single frequency network". This means that all transmitters broadcast on the same frequency and in time with one another. This means they complement each other as far as strength at any one place goes. Evidently you are picking up a faint signal from one or more other transmitters.
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Lisa: And of course as far as the aerial lead goes connect one box first and then the other. If it doesn't work try it the other way around (there is no need to adjust the scart/HDMI connections as these are independent of the aerial connections).
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DONALD: I imagine that the EPG might populate eventually and perhaps could be speeded up by switching to Film4.
Film4 is not and is never likely to be available from the Cupar relay.
Judging by the postcode supplied on a previous posting of yours I would suggest that Film4 is coming in on UHF channel 49 (it will probably say this on the signal strength screen) which means it's coming from Angus.
Overnight the frequency of this channel changed to C49, as part of the clearance for 4G mobile services. As such it is on a lower frequency which your aerial may be more sensitive to (as it is within the range of frequencies used by Cupar and therefore within the frequency range of your aerial if it's not a wideband one).
It is also worth adding that you are managing to receive Film4 with your aerial vertical when the signal is horizontal. It really could be intermittent.
I think you could possibly be in with a shot of receiving all channels from Angus. The Digital UK predictor scores favourably. You don't quite have line-of-sight owing to Myrecairnie Hill but it isn't far off:
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
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Charles Brenan: ITV, Channel 5, ITV2 and others are carried on the same multiplex (same signal) so if you have them then that is odd.
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Charles Brenan: Is Channel 4 in the 800s? You are looking for Channel 4 which is coming in on UHF channel 60, probably as indicated by the signal strength screen.
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Wednesday 31 July 2013 7:25PM
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