Full Freeview on the Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) transmitter

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6:37 PM

David Cook: Have you confirmed that you are indeed receiving the signals from and not ?

Bilsdale is a possibility, particularly if your goes with the first signals it finds; Pontop Pike uses higher and are thus found later on in the .

Receivers usually give the tuned UHF channel on strength screens. Check the following:

PSB1 | BBC One | P= | B= | F=
PSB2 | ITV1 | P= | B= | F=
PSB3 | BBC One HD | P= | B= | F=
COM4 | ITV3 | P= | B= | F=
COM5 | Pick TV | P= | B= | F=
COM6 | Film4 | P= | B= | F=

P=Pontop Pike, B=Bilsdale and F=

For example, bring up the signal strength screen and it should be tuned to 58 for Pontop Pike, or could be 26 if it's Bilsdale or 27 for Fenham.

If you have either Fenham or Bilsdale tuned in, run the automatic tuning scan with the aerial unplugged until 53% to miss out scanning of their channels.

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6:38 PM

David Cook: The example is to bring up the strength screen on BBC One.

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Graham Francis
11:40 AM
Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE16 6BS

My Panasonic TV has suddenly lost 50 (ITV3 etc).

Other TVs using the same are OK.

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ron
1:48 PM

I have also lost 50 also panasonic

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Robert
3:52 PM

yep 50 gone in Hebburn too - this morning CITV nd ITV3 were gone on the SONY box (2x TV worked OK)....

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4:12 PM

There is another report of the same issue, also with a Panasonic being affected, but not a Humax:

Single frequency interference | Freeview Interference | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice

Dave says that he has spoken to John Lewis about it and they've had other reports.

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4:20 PM

Correction: It's Panasonic that has had other reports, not John Lewis.

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7:20 PM

And another report stating issues at two addresses:

ITV 3 | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice

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Debbie
8:03 PM
Cramlington

Having trouble with lost here too on 2 Panasonic tv's and a blu ray recorder.
So far lost ITV3, 5*, 5 USA, 5+1 and QVC.

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9:37 PM

Debbie: There are various reports regarding a problems with the SDN , and "if" you haven't carried out a rescan (which should never be done anyway if a appears lost) carry out a signal on ITV3 (mux Ch50) and check what the level is indicated as being, because even if there is no the signal will most likely still be there but at a low level.

Once this is done try the same test on Film 4 (mux Ch55) and compare the two levels, giving an up date on the result.

Note though! if you have carried out a rescan then please ignore this request as you will have lost the channel from the tuners memory.