All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
ken sullivan: You cannot use an unpowered splitter with a satellite dish without consequences. This is because the receiver sends a voltage to the LNB to tell it which polarisation to use.
You need a feed (cable) from the dish for each receiver. Quad- and oct-LNBs are available from sources such as eBay.
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Barry Fox, David Anderson, Anthony: I take back what I said; evidently Movies4Men is still available in the Manchester (and some surrounding) area.
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nick: Now that you have given your location, one possibility is that the signal level going into your receiver is verging on being too much for your tuner. See:
Freeview news | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
There are a few ITV1 HD regions and therefore quite a few regions get the HD feed of another. The reason for this is cost as to produce a separate feed for each would necessitate additional equipment.
In reply to your specific question as to why Granada has been chosen, then I guess that they have gone with the regions that are likely to yield the greatest return in respect of number of viewers watching the "correct" adverts.
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Ger: If you're receiving both with the same aerial, then one or both transmitters must be a bit off-beam and that would seem to be the most likely possibility.
Holywell Hill is on C30, so I guess you might (or really probably should have) a wideband aerial.
The gain of wideband yagi aerials drops off on lower channels and are therefore less directional (than higher ones). See this page for come examples that illustrate my point about gain:
Gain (curves), Again
Therefore, the answer might be to have the aerial pointing at Limavady (or much closer to it than to Holywell Hill). Failing that, a separate aerial with the two combined using a diplexer.
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Clonmany transmitter broadcasts vertically at 20W on C49; not sure whether this might be a possible cause.
There appears to be no other transmitter on C59 that might be an issue.
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Ger: Another thought: Amplifiers used to boost low-level signals are best at the aerial end as having them before the receiver amplifies the noise picked up in the cable as well as amplifying what is left of the signal (it having been reduced due to its travel along the cable).
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guy: It doesn't have a Freeview HD (DVB-T2) tuner in which is why it won't pick it up!
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andy f: Try doing a manual tune on UHF channel 60.
Beacon Hill's BBC mux is co-channel and as such Slapton's BBC is predicted not as good as D3&4 and BBCB.
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Alex: Your postcode resolves to a block of flats which makes me think that there might be a communal aerial system. Thus, you and your neighbours who have the same issue have something in common: the aerial system.
This tends to point to some issue with it so this will need reporting to whoever is responsible for it (e.g. the landlord).
Try a manual tune on UHF channel 26 for Mux 2. Having brought up the manual tune screen and entered/selected 26, prior to pressing the button to scan (might be "OK"), observe whether there is any indication of strength and quality.
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MFPA: The result of the suspected arson, I should imagine.
Bathampton TV mast fire | This is Bath
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Wednesday 2 January 2013 3:38PM
Steve: The Commercial broadcasters that do not broadcast from Hunmanby and 1,000 plus similar small relays don't wish to pay for them:
Londonderry transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
The TV licence goes exclusively to the BBC and all BBC services are broadcast from Hunmanby and are therefore available to you.
The effective power of the Oliver's Mount transmitter is greater after switchover, thus it will reach some areas that it didn't before.
Previously the four main channels may have been available (at a particular location) from the local relay (Hunmanby) and its parent (Oliver's Mount) with the former being easier to receive. Now there may be a difference in the number of channels available, hence, in some cases it may be possible to change from using the relay to the parent/main station to increase the channels available.