All posts by Steve Donaldson
Below are all of Steve Donaldson's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Robert Baird : Please see my comment above at 1:38 PM yesterday. There is a power outage in the area of the transmitter, to the west of the A82. In answer to your question, there is a link in the aforementioned comment to the electricity company's website which carries an estimated restoration time for power to the area.
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Robert Baird: My comment posted on a new page. For the "above" reference is on page 2, so follow the "P2" link for page 2, below.
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jimmy: Thanks for letting us know. This is good to hear.
BBC Reception [ Welcome to BBC Reception Advice | Help receiving TV and radio ] is reporting that TV was restored at 19:08 and that FM and DAB radio were both restored at 19:39.
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Millburn Muir TV and radio services are now back on air. They returned in the last hour.
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Derek Booth: This isn't something this website does. Freeview publishes "Latest Channel updates on Freeview" bulletins: Updates and alerts | Freeview
There is an option on that page to sign up for a newsletter. It doesn't say explicitly whether this includes the list of channel updates, as per the above, but perhaps you might like to sign up and see.
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BBC Reception [ Welcome to BBC Reception Advice | Help receiving TV and radio ] reports that Rothesay came back on air earlier today. TV was restored at 12:14, with FM and DAB radio returning at 15:36.
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Dunja Bjrke: Darvel is currently listed by Freeview as having engineering works, and this could explain why some of the channels have become unavailable to you:
Planned engineering works | Freeview
By resetting and retuning you have likely cleared the correct tuning. In such a situation, the objective of retuning is simply to restore what was deleted in the first place.
Had the TV been left tuned then when the signal(s) become available again, the channels will return to the TV without the need for any intervention (i.e. without the need to tune them in).
The only other HD channels that might potentially be picked up in places on and near the west coast of Scotland are those from Ireland, of which there are three: RTE One, RTE2 and TG4.
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Dunja Bjrke: Restore missing channels with manual tuning. Channel numbers for Darvel are:
PSB1 / BBC A = C22
PSB2 / D3&4 = C25
PSB3 / BBC B = C28
COM4 / SDN = C32
COM5 / Arq A = C34
COM6 / Arq B = C35
Local = C31
Freeview has published a full list of channels:
Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
Multiple programme channels are carried on a single signal, known as a multiplex or "mux". The list of channels shows which "Mux" each channel is carried on, meaning you can identify which are missing.
For example, U&Yesterday is on Arq B (COM6) which is on UHF channel 35 from Darvel.
There are six multiplexes for the main Freeview channels. The local TV channel is also included. Not all Darvel viewers can pick it up, so it may or may not be applicable.
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Sunday 26 January 2025 12:13AM
Donald: It's quite safe to say that you won't be tuned to the Poplar transmitter in Woodford. The Poplar transmitter was built in 1991 for those in the Poplar and Bow Common areas who had poor reception owing to the Canary Wharf casting a shadow in the signal from Crystal Palace. The coverage map at the top of this page gives an idea of the sort of area the Poplar transmitter may be available.
In Woodford you are most likely using Crystal Palace. When you say you have no information at all visible, then do you not have the on-screen display that you can bring up? Likewise the menu? If it were not to be bringing these up when the TV is turned on then that suggests a TV fault.
If you do have on-screen display and menu available then it may be worth seeing if it is an issue caused by a nearby mobile phone base station starting using the 700MHz band, frequencies previously used for TV. This can sometimes cause problems with reception and the solution is usually to install a filter. Restore TV is the organisation charged with alleviating TV reception issues caused by mobile phone base stations. They should send a free filter should they think you could be potentially affected.
If you are using a booster then the filter must go before it. If the booster is on the roof with the aerial then they should send an engineer to fit an outdoor filter on the roof.
Enter your postcode into the Restore TV site to see if they sent you a postcard: https://restoretv.uk/post…ure/