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Sue
Saturday 4 May 2013 10:42AM Littleborough
Hi
I have a freeview tv and separate digital recorder. Since the April retune, the recorder is working fine, but I have had problems with the tv. At first I could only pick up BBC Wales. I have retuned again and managed to get rid of BBC Wales, but BBC1 & 2 are now pixelated. Can't seem to resolve this & can't find any reference to it anywhere. Any suggestions please?
Thanks, Sue
Dave Lindsay
Saturday 4 May 2013 12:17PM
Sue: You are only a few hundreds of metres from the Littleborough relay transmitter, which on the tower further up your road.

I would suggest that your TV may have decided to use the BBC signal from it rather than from Winter Hill. The signal strength screen usually gives an indication as to which UHF channel (equivalent to frequency) it is tuned to. Do this for BBC One. Littleborough broadcasts on C27 and Winter Hill is on C50.

Because Littleborough's channels are all low (low frequencies) and Winter Hill's are high ones, during the scan, have the aerial out for the first 50% of the scan. This should also miss out BBC Wales and ITV Wales from the Moel-y-Parc transmitter, which is what you were getting.

Try it and let me know how you get on. If there are any other issues I may be able to suggest something.
Maurice
Sunday 12 May 2013 12:35PM Brighton
My Freeview will not pick up any BBC channels since May 8.(1,2,3,4, News or Parliament). My postcode is BN2 1JS
Dave Lindsay
Sunday 12 May 2013 1:04PM
Maurice: As you live in a block of flats, it may be the case that you are using a communal aerial system. If so then see if any of your neighbours have lost BBC services on Freeview.

Be aware that those receiving via satellite (Sky, Freesat etc) will not be affected, so try and ascertain that any who are not affected are actually using the terrestrial aerial system (Freeview).
Maurice
Sunday 12 May 2013 2:51PM Brighton
Maurice:

I asked but no one complained and yes, we have a communal aerial on the roof.
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