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| Read this: Channel 4 facing privatisation? | free and easy | N | Nicholas Anderson The only surprising thing about the proposed privatisation of Channel 4 is that it hasn t been done before. There is no reason that providing their remit is th | |||
| Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) Full Freeview transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Paula mcmaster: According to the post above yours, there has been engineering work taking place at the Bluebell Hill transmitter this week, unfortunately it doe | |||
| Hemel Hempstead (Hertfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmit | C | Chris.SE Gtibb: Thanks for the update. It s highly annoying that the BBC (who are normally quite good at reporting) have not mentioned this. | |||
| My ITV/C4 Freeview channels have disappeared - what can I do? | C | Chris.SE Joyce Stanford: Without a full postcode, or you being certain which transmitter you receive, it s impossible to say. Wherever you are in the country there a | |||
| Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Martin Grant: I d guess that Arqiva would argue that they can t stop essential maintenance work just because of what programmes happen to be on. Quite a lo | |||
| Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Martin Grant: Just to add to the above, There s also been some variable Tropospheric Ducting with the recent weather conditions which has been a | |||
| Do all freeview set top boxes have the same problems - they fre | B | brian duggan does anyone know how to get in to the menu on a bush recorder it will not take 0000 says wrong pin tried 6699 still the same | |||
| New and improved Freeview radiation patterns | free and easy | C | Chris.SE Oliver: A full postcode is needed to look at your predicted reception. What type of aerial is it and where is it located? | |||
| Read this: #159 - C4 4 The Chopping Block? UK TV IN EU; Sony Bu | C | Chris.SE Peter Suthers: Yes that error is not helpful, however if when making a post, you put your email address into the box below your name, and tick the boxes bel | |||
| Read this: #159 - C4 4 The Chopping Block? UK TV IN EU; Sony Bu | Brian Butterworth Peter Suthers: Should be OK again. Seems to have happened when I moved the server to PHP8.0.8 this week. | ||||
| Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England) Freeview Light transmitter | free | C | Chris.SE D Marshall: You may have noticed the post before yours where there is Planned Engineering, the BBC had also reported a fault on the 3rd July. Do not retune | |||
| All free TV channels in the UK | C | Chris.SE John Jenkins: It s simply a matter of the commercial operators not thinking it s cost effective to provide the additional transmitters to serve only ~20,000 | |||
| Channel 5 +24 | C | Chris.SE Audrey Haywood: The retune on the 1st of July was when 5Select (at their choice) moved multiplexes from SDN/COM4 to BBCB HD/PSB3. This gives them greater co | |||
| Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Michael Brown: I think in view of the additional detail you ve given, it s highly unlikely to be a bad connection at your aerial. But just to be clear, bad | |||
| Read this: Digital Radio UK starts to promote DAB+ radio upgrad | C | Chris.SE Chris Worrow: Unfortunately it s all down to what the commercial operators are prepared to pay! | |||
| Buxton (Derbyshire, England) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE Simon Milne: As you haven t given a full postcode for the locale to which you are hoping to be moving to, I ve picked a random one in the middle of Buxton S | |||
| Aberdare (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) Full Freeview transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Babs: 5Select hasn t changed LCN but has moved to the PSB3 multiplex which also carries Channel 5 HD on 105. If you can get Channel 5 HD on 105 then try retunin | |||
| My ITV/C4 Freeview channels have disappeared - what can I do? | N | Neil Bbc1 and 2 and Radio 4 signals have become intermittently distorted on all 3 TVs, which have all been returned several times. All other channels are fine. The | |||
| Can I stop paying Sky and use my satellite receiver to get Free | S | StevensOnln1 stephen p: ITV Wales is still broadcast in both SD and HD and should therefore appear on 103. The BBC channels in the 960+ range are all the different national/ | |||
| Caterham (Surrey, England) Freeview Light transmitter | C | Chris.SE Roy : There may have been engineering work. Have your signals returned to normal? Otherwise we d need a full postcode to look at your predicted reception. | |||
| Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmitter | C | Chris.SE Barrie Stow: You should get good reception from Stockland Hill for the BBC/ITV/C4 C5 main channels on the PSB multiplexes, but those on the commercial | |||
| Freeview intermittent interference | Freeview Interference | C | Chris.SE Kevin Dixon: There has been engineering work at Emley (and also a number of local relay transmitters). The work at Emley (as I undertstand it) has been to g | |||
| Identifying boxes on the roof | Rigger's zone | C | Chris.SE Michael: With an aerial installation that old, it s quite possible that things have deteriorated and water ingress could be an issue both in the aerial conn | |||
| Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) DAB transmitter | N | Neil Thompson 15/07/2021 I ve lost BBC Radio Humberside from my DAB radio located in Armley, Leeds today. Has the service been removed? | |||
| Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) DAB transmitter | N | Neil Thompson 15/07/2021 I have lost BBC Radio Humberside from my DAB Radio located in Armley, Leeds today. Has it been removed? | |||
| Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter | D | david OK, thanks....just seemed strange that only that mux was affected do you know why I am not receiving email updates to this forum?... I am not signed up for | |||
| Mendip (Somerset, England) Full Freeview transmitter | R | Roy Lewis Mendip transmitter, received at BS48 2UF, aerial in loft. The LBS station for Bristol TV given above as C51 714MHz seems to be in error and out of date. Cur | |||
| Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE david: Although there were some odd problems with email updates a while ago, mine (weekly) have been working recently. The system may not be correctly reco | |||
| LONDON LIVE | C | Chris.SE Maurice Joyce: Not sure why you are telling us, this is not London Live s website, it s a free technical helpsite! | |||
| Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter | J | Jim Davies Problems with clarity of speech being muffled on all channels on Winter Hill xmtr. Being experienced on a number of different sets - Sony, Panasonic and LG I k | |||
| Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter | C | Chris.SE Jim Davies: There s no currently listed Planned Engineering at Winter Hill, and neither Freeview nor the BBC are reporting any faults. There haven t been a | |||
| Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | M | Michael I live in the LE7 7EU area my normal freeview is fine but my freeview HD channels come and go and pixelate last night they were all a perfect picture ! Is this | |||
| New and improved Freeview radiation patterns | free and easy | ì | 카지노 사ì´íŠ¸ Really when someone doesn t understand afterward its up to other users that they will help, so here it happens. | |||
| Dover (Kent, England) Full Freeview transmitter | J | John Millar Hello, I have a Freeview reception problem with channel 39. I live in Ramsgate and am tuned to the Dover transmitter. The aerial is a good quality one on the | |||
| Rouncefall (new) (Essex, England) Freeview Light transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Woz: Chis isn t the owner of the website, neither he nor any other contributor can change your email address. The only person who can do that is Briantist, who | |||
| Ofcom moves to protect Freeview interference from 4G mobile dev | C | Chris.SE Barry: You haven t given any explanation of your precise problem and whether it s continuous, recent (dates are useful) or only just happened, nor have you | |||
| Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Michael Morgan: Do you receive BBC One HD on 101? Both 5Select and TBN are on the PSB3 multiplex which required a HD capable TV or box to receive. | |||
| Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) Full Freeview transmitte | S | StevensOnln1 Mike wilson: No the signal cannot be boosted, firstly this is an independent technical help website which has nothing to do with any broadcaster or transmitter | |||
| Householder guide to satellite dishes | Free satellite - gener | W | waslateto Aw, this was an exceptionally good post. Taking the time and actual effort to produce a top notch article... but what can I say... I procrastinate a whole lot a | |||
| West Runton (Norfolk, England) Freeview Light transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Geoffrey Hampton: Presumably you mean ITV HD, as ITV 3 isn t available in HD on Freeview. There are currently only a handful of ITV regions available in HD on F | |||
| Clyro (County of Herefordshire, England) DAB transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 chris.S.M.: Firstly it has nothing to do with your TV Licence and the transmitter does not switch off or reduce it s power output overnight. The problem you are | |||
| Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Michael : End dates for engineering work are never normally published as they can be impacted by factors such as weather conditions (e.g. rain, high winds, or h | |||
| Mendip (Somerset, England) Full Freeview transmitter | K | Kate Mason I listen to Classic FM on my LG TV; I live in an apartment and the aerials here are up in the roof space of the building, and cannot be accessed, or tweaked, by | |||
| Winter Hill (Bolton, England) DAB transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 robert: Where are you located? The Winter Hill transmitter covers a huge area and overlaps with various other transmitters. Which stations have you tried? | |||
| Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Michael : If per chance you retuned your bedroom TV when the HD multiplex was on low power or off-air, this will most likely have cleared the correct tuning | |||
| Winter Hill (Bolton, England) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE robert: As StevensOnln1 says, without a full postcode, it s not possible to say which transmitter(s) you may be getting DAB signals from. There are a number | |||
| Mendip (Somerset, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Kate Mason: The Mendip transmitter isn t currently listed for Planned Engineering and I can t find any current fault reports and the BBC haven t reported an | |||
| Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | M | Michael I’m in a retirement bungalow with a communal Ariel on the wardens house at entrance about 150 feet away the warden would get an Ariel man out as covered in my m | |||
| Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | M | Michael Chris you won’t believe this I’ve just tried tv in bedroom and can get all the freeview HD channels says 100 % single strength ! It must be the Waltham engineer | |||
| Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Michael : The only way you can get a better idea of what is going on is by comparison of the C35 signal strength for the PSB3/BBCB HD mux with the other PSB |