Full Freeview on the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter

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10:57 AM

Ian Gilkison: is broadcasting HD but your receivers do not contain the required DVB-T2 tuners.

The Sony set is labelled as "" which means that it can show HD pictures but does not have the means to receive them off the air.

The specification for the LG model, both on the LG website and in the manual does not appear to say what type of tuner it has. Amazon does say only DVB-T for the tuner and it also says "Full HD" in the product title. This also gives no qualification to the ability to receive HD signals off the air and just means that it can show the maximum resolution of a HD , 1080p.

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Matt
9:52 PM

Hi Dave, thanks for the . NO its definately . Got really odd things happening now though. like a blank screen on a lot of . BBC 1 is often unwatchable, yet every mux comes in with a strength of 6+, and of 5+

Really not sure waht is going on :(

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Matt
9:53 PM

PS. the caps on NO were an accident, (not shouting lol) :)

and yest my spelling of what is a little eccentric

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Trevor Milburn
10:28 PM
Sunderland

Dave Lindsay:
It seems strange that several others have have had problems with - more so since after (12/19/26 September) everything seems to have been fine until at some point disappeared. I receive the HD from Bilsdale perfectly well(OK they are double the of most others)but why should the C46/574MHz signals be so badly affected? I was told some time ago that the of Co-ax from to could have a detrimental effect on signal quality especially on the 'higher' channels, but when I had my aerial fited about a year ago the co-ax was also replaced so shouldn't be affecting the system.
I can jump into a downfeed from my , but I am still wondering why this problem occurred in the first place. (I spent 20 odd years working in IT so have heard - and given - all the usual excuses about problems with so would like to get to the bottom of this particular problem without losing what was a perfectly good signal feed).

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10:55 AM

Trevor Milburn: I'm not an installer and the only observation I can make is that the sensitivity () of yagi aerials drops sharply above the designated group whereas below there's much more of a slope. is the highest and therefore the furthest from group A.

See this page for example curves:

Gain (curves), Again

Note that the yagis all have a distinct form where they drop off sharply above their group and that the slope down towards the beginning of and below the designated group.

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10:58 AM

Further to my posting of 28 September 2012 11:36AM here is another location, this time , where DUK reckons that 's PSBs aren't as good as its COMs:

Postcode Checker - Detailed View

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Robert Hill
4:50 PM

I have read all the above postings, with interest. As regards the of , I can receive it very well with an indoor which is a 4 element indoor aerial and its halfway up a downstairs window pointing towards Bilsdale. I have no trouble receiving all MUXes. The is 100%. The signal strengths do vary between the 50 and 75%, but I do not have any trouble as I've said already receiving any of the signals from Bilsdale. My television is Panasonic model TX-L 375B, and it indoor aerial is a Maxview - C3010 - Truvision Set Top Aerial by Maxview (Accessory) . I normally get my television signal from . So in other words Bilsdale seems to be working okay where I am, which is about 3 to 4 miles south of Wetherby in Yorkshire.

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Darren Brown
8:50 PM

Dave Lindsay:
Dave, I have switched to a aerial and can now receive just fine. thanks again for your mate.

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Ian
7:37 PM
Bishop Auckland

Had all the up till the re-tune. Now lost Sky news,Dave, E4+1 and a few others.
Have tried to re tune a few times but they wont come on.
Any ideas how I could get them back on?

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8:20 PM

Ian: You are missing COM5 . See here for an explanation as to a possible cause for loss from after :

Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) full-Freeview transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice

Try a manual tune first, if your allows.