All posts by Briantist
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Chris Onion: If your TV aerial is pointing southeast towards Waltham, you will get signal from there.
If it points southwest towards Sutton Coldfield, you will get signals from there.
In addition, you will get signals from the Derby relay, which is also to your southwest.
Derby has only ever transmitted two channels: BBC One East Midlands and ITV1 East Midlands, it is a "filler" service for Derby.
At the East Midlands switchover, it now carries ONLY TWO mulitplexes: BBCA and D3&3, and will only have the third, the BBC HD service from next month.
So, reception of BBCA will not stop reception of the Multiplex B with Sky Sports 1 and 2 on it from Sutton Coldfield.
If you have problems, do this - My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
The ArqB multiplex after switchover will cover almost all homes within the transmitter range, and will not be on the current "low power" configuration.
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Reg: I only ask about Channel 5 on analogue as it provided from the same mast as the pre-switchover HD service, Litchfield. It is a good guide as to if the Litchfield transmitter is operational.
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Annabel Cowley: You didn't provide a postcode, but the advise is the same as for everyone else here - the signal is too strong and you need to remove any amplifiers or boosters you have in your system.
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EagerBeaver: Sorry, but no, the transmitted signals are digital, the COFDM encoding depends on the incoming data being a digital datastream and the way it works (in particular the 8k carriers) totally depends on the fact that it is digital.
If you start arguing that because the signal travels over a physical medium, then nothing can be digital at all as the photons in fibre optical cables and electrons in a wire are "analogue".
Is that your argument? Because the system uses the same 8MHz blocks of transmission space the system is "analogue underneath".
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emma hiscock: Please see All free-to-watch channels | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice . The card only provides access to PICK TV, 5* and 5USA.
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Bill: The whole point of a "white space" device is that it will not operate using an allocated frequency. The transmitter discovers the frequencies in use in the area (GPS+database) and disables them.
Actually, Ofcom is proposing that FM is used for whitespace, not the "TV band" - Ofcom | Ofcom considers future of FM radio band .
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MB: Please do this - My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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jb38: In fact, as HDMI is an uncompressed lossless digital transmission system, there is no difference whatsoever if you use a Freeview HD box to having a built in tuner.
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David: The location is shown on the Derby digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page.
Like all relay transmitters before switchover, it was carrying only analogue channels, and in this very unusual case, only two of them.
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Friday 2 September 2011 7:33AM
lee: Arqiva do not take calls from the public, if you wish to report problems do it via the BBC Reporting tool, see Broadcaster complaints details | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .