All posts by Steve
Below are all of Steve's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Daft idea anyway having Lincoln in the "Yorkshire" region when much of Yorkshire is in the "Tyne Tees" region. However as I too get Belmont in Sheffield, it just goes to show that UHF television signals are difficult to predict, and that when existing regions are split further, viewers using different transmitters for perfectly good reasons will be confused. On my SKY box I can watch all BBC variants and with a bit of manual tuning can get any ITV region. Does this facility apply to freesat - I imagine it would. I notice that BBC1 Scotland has a channel number for Virgin Media when outside of Scotland. Does this mean it can be accessed through Virgin Cable? I emailed them to ask but probably won't live long enough to wait for an answer....
Thanks Is there a good channel guide to FREESAT which includes BBC regions and nations, and ITV regions? Friend having Freesat insrtalled soon but wants to play around with it. The FREESAT/SKY ITV regions are a mystery. We live in Sheffield and would get Yorks W service with an aerial. Sky used to put that on EPG but a few months ago changed it to Yorks E - the Lincolnshire service. Mum in Nottinghamshire gets this too. Friend in Notts put a Nottingham postcode in his FREESAT to trick it to give him Central E but bizarrely it gives him Cenral W. I gave him the frequencies to tune manually but I wonder why you can't just choose your own regions for BBC and ITV Mike - thanks for the info.
Briantist - thanks for that contrbution. The truth is that my mate put in a Nottingham postcode to try and trick Freesat. An NG17 postcode usually brings up Yorks E. I'll find out the postcode of the transmitter itself!!
Mick in Eckington
I live nearby in Gleadless and go to Eckington a lot. Most aerials in the town point to Belmont so I am sure this is why you get BBC1 Lincs. To be fair, lots of homes in North Derbyshire and Sheffield do - it may be possible to fit an aerial for Emley Moor but if you live down at the bottom of the hill this might not be possible. It will cost you too Steve in Chesterfield
If you used to get the Yorks W service and now get Yorks E after a re-scan, it is likely that your receiver has picked up the Belmont signal first and stored it; the Yorks W one may be in the 800 series of channels, but if not wait until DSO has been complete. If the problem persists post again. Keep re-scanning. The local service for Sheffield will be transmitted from the Sheffield relay, but most of Sheffield gets it's pictures from Emley Moor, Belmont, another local relay, even from distant Waltham or Bilsdale.
What about Sky/Freesat viewers?
I can't see sponsorship or support for a service which many won't be able to get, never mind want to watch! Jimmy James: most of Notts gets Look North - where do you live? Sounds like digital overlap. Please provide postcode. dave - your postcode indicates that if you are on a relay transmitter it would most likely be Beecroft Hill; this is a Freeview Light transmitter and has never had these channels. You may have picked them up from a more distant mast but it seems if you want them you will have to switch to Emley Moor if it is possible in your location. I suggest looking around at neighbouring aerials and/or a word with a local engineer. Choddy, just a thought as I pass through Bolsover frequently and know it is an excellent reception area for Emley and Waltham. It may be you have too much signal since DSO, either via Emley, or from Belmont which had it's power boosted at the end of November. Is your son's aerial smaller than yours? Is your aerial boosted (shouldn't be)? Briantist's link should help you I live in Gleadless, Sheffield, by the way, not Holmfirth! It changed my location when I was trying out some reception queries for others and forgot to return my location to it's proper place!! I think you may as well have these stations online so that you can tune in to any that you want. Otherwise you are bound to have the "I live in x and I can't get xtv but I get ytv" moaning again just like with DSO. I've just plugged a Freesat box into my Sky dish but have no HDMI connection on my older TV. On some channels I get a message that this channel cannot be received. Is a scart connection not enough? What purpose does the HDMI connection serve? Help! Bought a Samsung 8700 Freesat+ box and got rid of my SKY box which gave perfect reception on all channels. I did a scan and it read 86% signal strength and 10% signal quality. It found 143 channels. I keep getting the message "Cannot receive the programme. Please check connection" on different channels. Some days the channels appear normally, sometimes I get this message. Red button services cause this message to appear and so do radio channels. I am puzzled. It appears to be a reception problem, but why did the SKY channels work so well??? Any help appreciated. JB38 - thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I took the satellite connections out and found one was squashed; I straightened it and carefully re-inserted; result - all channels performing normally. Thanks once again. Another option is to go for Freesat and input a postcode which will definitely default to the Yorkshire stations; whatever postcode you use all BBC variants will be available. When I converted from Sky to Freesat I noticed that the NG postcode I put in gave me Central West, because Central East is apparently encrypted. However today when watching the football I noticed the channel 103 had changed to Central East. Somewhere along the line the channel has been unencrypted and the channel switched for boxes using the appropriate postcodes?? Surprised I can find no reference as yet on this website - is this a surprise to everyone ? Unless I've missed something, your list of BBC VHF transmitters seems to have omitted Holme Moss (the BBC's equivalent of Emley Moor). I think Holme Moss served the whole North of England until the East/West split in 1968. Winter Hill only came into use as a BBC transmitter when they split the region. Unless I've missed something, your list of BBC VHF transmitters seems to have omitted Holme Moss (the BBC's equivalent of Emley Moor). I think Holme Moss served the whole North of England until the East/West split in 1968. Winter Hill only came into use as a BBC transmitter when they split the region. The Weymouth transmitter used to broadcast ITV Southern - not sure about the BBC variant, but for some reason was transferred to ITV South West/Westward/Whatever-they-call-it-this-week. Certainly it is in the South region back in 405 days which is why the historical information on the Weymouth transmitter is misleading. It refers to the main transmitter only. Why the switch was made is unclear - nearby relays are from Rowridge and on maps the Weymouth coverage appears to intrude into the South region. Anyone know the full story? Thanks for that information. I still wonder why the region was chosen as South West when South would seem to be more appropriate? Particularly as it would seem that the 405-line coverage put it more in the South region. I can get BBC Scottish channels OK even though I have input an English postcode and it gives me the opportunity to have these as defaults if I wish. I still can't find BBC Scotland HD although I know the BBC doesn't encrypt its channels anymore and with BBC1 and BBC2 Scottish versions available to all there is no validity in doing so. So.....how do I get this HD channel???? 
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