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All posts by steve

Below are all of steve's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.

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Freeview reception - all about aerials | Installing
Monday 15 April 2013 10:29AM Wrexham
http://www.vision-products.co.uk/catalogue/product/V26-106

That looks as expected - a passive splitter capable of sending DC Power up if needed through the marked route.

I think JB is suggesting you see if yout TV offers this - somewhere in Menu/Setup to on/off.

I've lost track of what your problem is, but try disconnecting all but 1 output and see if that helps.
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Tuesday 16 April 2013 12:33AM Wrexham
Possibly but are theey all from same aerial? Might have moved or corroded connection.

Are others locally gettintg the same?
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Wednesday 17 April 2013 12:06AM Wrexham
Rachel

Check if everyting plugged in properly. Unplug and replug.

Look at your aerial. Ids it still there? Still pointing where it used to?

See if your box will work somewhere else.
I heard on NW TV news that their freeview channels have been changed to make space and there are a lot of problems.
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Thursday 18 April 2013 8:17PM Wrexham
Aidan - I know very little about Satellite TV but think it most unlikely that you will be able to get USA Satellite TV, as their satellites are a quarter of the way round the world from us and pointing downwards.
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Saturday 20 April 2013 1:46AM Wrexham
colin - what is wrong is that they are out of sync.

To cure it; change to another channel and back; another source and boack, or powercycle the lot.
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Saturday 20 April 2013 9:55AM
Have you been here?

BBC - Help receiving TV and radio


Brian - would it be worth linking this somewhere? (LL145HD)
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Digital radio section | Digital radio
Saturday 20 April 2013 6:24PM Wrexham
Siarad Gymraig?

It may well be NW Wales rather than NE, due to good propagation over the sea.

IIRC you can see Snowdon from Southport Pier?

And even the sea too these days now they don't dredge the Ribble?

(I was dragged up in Longton, which some here may not know is just up the Ribble Estuary from Southport).
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Monday 22 April 2013 11:23AM Wrexham
Jayne you should have realised that if NEITHER TV worked the problem was almost certainly not the TVs.
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Tuesday 23 April 2013 6:36PM
Neil B I suspect the dual posting was simply a system artefact where it was posted but not shown as such on Jane's screen and she then pressed "Post.." again.


vincent - half Lancashire is having problems; either after retuning or because they have not done.
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Wednesday 24 April 2013 6:37PM
Rani you don't even need a card to get the free channels.
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Saturday 27 April 2013 6:33PM
Colin - Are you doing a "First Time Install" or other memory clearing scan, rahter than just adding? Not sure what a "default setting" would be/be for.

Roy S - click the highlight on your question!

Ask Eurosport?
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Tuesday 30 April 2013 7:30PM
Colin

When a tuner detects multiple versions of a channel like BBC1 BBC2 ITV1 C4 C5 it puts whatever it perceives to be the local one in channel 101 102 103 or 001 002 003 etc. then lists others somewhere else; usually the 800 series.

Usually you can rearrange to get what you want where you want it.

But you seem to be detecting nothing at all.

If other equipment does in same place either yours bust or somehow wrongly set/instructed. Not sure about "setting" for auto scans, which usually just happen.

Some boxes cannot cope with new modulation methods but thought that all already worked through.
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Wednesday 1 May 2013 7:25PM
Colin - could be that it developed a fault which only manifests itself on retuning?

Lots of trouble reported with the retune, but not total loss of all signals.

Is there not a number to call in the instructions?
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Tuesday 7 May 2013 5:38PM
Richard -

still keep getting Welsh programmes though we are in the Merseyside area.


Congratulations ??

UK digital TV reception predictor

Can you tell from the channel numbers on the link which station you are receiving? Which way is your aerial - H or V ? And where pointing?

Look in the 800 series for the English channels too - you may be able to swap.
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Wednesday 8 May 2013 4:22PM
Tony - eat your macaroni?

But at a more practical level; can you try her box with another dish and another dish with her box?

That should settle if it is box or dish at fault.

D Matthews - are you saying you get reception every morning and it goes, and you cannot retune later? Very odd. Are you using Oxford? Match channels to this
UK digital TV reception predictor

If you retune one morning and do nothing later on do the signals reappear the next morning? If not I suspect your box faulty. Try it elsewhere.

If so, sounds like interference or signal strength - perhaps too strong! Remove any amplifier, or other links.

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Thursday 9 May 2013 10:56AM
Tony have you yet proved that it is the dish not the box?
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Friday 10 May 2013 7:23PM
Me too.

Now about that famous mamma's cooking.....

Though I suppose there must be some Italian mammas who are awful cooks?
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Saturday 11 May 2013 5:43PM
C Taylor I don't know who you think you are leaving a message for but it's in the wrong place. This website has nothing to do with broadcasting except to discuss it. No services, engineers, etc.
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Saturday 11 May 2013 5:46PM
Dear Peter

You can't even spell your own surname in the standard modern usage, so why berate Brian for the US (kilo)meter ?

And as Brian is so thick skinned that he has never corrected the gratingly awful affect/effect error I doubt hee will care.
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Saturday 11 May 2013 8:13PM
d

So why do you think Tottenham sky special?
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nick did you not get a quote in advance?

and why did you pay such a ludicrous sum?
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Well Nick at least you have managed to get the cost reduced £100 from one post here to another.
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Sunday 26 May 2013 11:38PM
Jill R if you hve the sat dish another option is to buy a Freesat Tuner - eg

www.argos.co.uk link icon Buy Bush Freesat Digital Set Top Box at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for Set top boxes.
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Digital radio section | Digital radio
Thursday 30 May 2013 6:06PM
PH I think you are asking about something unrelated to this website.

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Digital radio section | Digital radio
Thursday 30 May 2013 6:21PM
Seen on a discussion board:-


Yesterday at 7:26pm, FleetingEileenM wrote:
Felpersham, wasn't it? He said he had a flat round the corner. Was that Tom who saved him?


I was wondering who it was who 'saved' Paul. If it was Tom I didn't recognise his voice. Or was it just the same actor?

I find it difficult to distinguish voices when listening on DAB. FM is much clearer.

Read more: Mustardland - Quiet here? No muggings?
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Saturday 1 June 2013 11:01AM
steve d I think you are in the wrong place.

What are you referring to?
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There's a man called Mazaar or similar posts here from Ormskirk.
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Monday 10 June 2013 11:50PM
Brian are you still alive and visiting?>

If so, is it time to chanhe the 4 year ols post at the top of this page?
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Wednesday 12 June 2013 7:49PM
I brought a TV back from Singapore 30 years ago. All it needed was a change in sound carrier separation.

Conveniently the one place where Toshiba could do that in UK was withing 3 miles of my house.
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