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Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Bryan: First and foremost, reception may be hit and miss. Sometimes it may be interference from another transmitter(s) in the UK.
What you should have done was bring up the signal strength screen and observe which UHF channel it was coming in on.
I can't vouch for how up-to-date this is:
Rowridge Transmitter
However, it gives you the locations of the main transmitters along France's north coast.
The full list of transmitters in France is here:
http://tvignaud.pagespers….pdf
TF1 HD is carried on "R5" multiplex, along with two other services.
TF1 standard definition is carried on R6, along with five other services, one of which is encrypted.
The Boulogne transmitter broadcasts R5 on C44 and R6 on C37.
Dunkirk's R5 is on C31 and R6 is on C21.
This page gives UK transmitters by channel:
C21 (474.0MHz) after switchover | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
Heathfield and Tunbridge Wells both broadcast on C44. No transmitters broadcast on C31 because 31 to 37 was cleared as part of UK switchover. They may well be used in coming years, so if you can receive C31 from Dunkirk, then it may be lost.
That said, refer to:
Ten more HD channels on two new Freeview HD multiplexes on air from 2014-18 | Freeview news | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
The nearest transmitter to you pencilled in on C31 is Rowridge.
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Bryan: See also http://www.toutelatnt/pros/
See:
http://pros.toutelatnt.fr….pdf
According to it, R5 from Boulogne is on C29.
Perhaps the PDF I linked to in the 6:47 posting is the pre-switchover one. The different and low transmission powers make me think this.
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Bryan: The link should be:
Antennistes / Revendeurs | Toute la TNT : Espace Professionnel
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Bryan: The French channels may be stored in your 800s (logical channel numbers starting at 800).
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Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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Bryan4:12 PM
Dave, thank you for the above, at least I have an idea of which channels to look out for. However it seems all I can do is try a re tune every now and then and hope to stumble across TF1 again. Another clue to what might help me - I found I had to have my aerial directly into the TV not via a sat box or bluray tuner that is why I thought I should try a booster but this did no good at all, any thoughts?
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Bryan5:40 PM
Hi again, What MHz should I be looking for for TF1?
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Bryan: On the manual tune screen, enter the frequency and, if there is an indication of strength and quality, wait for them to settle (don't press the button to scan the channel just yet as on many devices the manual tune screen acts like a signal meter, before the channel is scanned).
The broadcast frequencies in MHz are:
Boulogne:
TF1HD = 538MHz (C29)
TF1 = 602MHz (C37)
Dunkirk:
TF1HD = 554MHz (C31)
TF1 = 474MHz (C21).
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Bryan: One possibility is to receive French television by satellite. www.tntsat.tv
It broadcasts from 19.2 degrees east, whereas the UK services of Sky and Freesat are 28.2 degrees east, so a separate dish will be required, unfortunately.
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Friday, 15 March 2013
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Bryan12:18 PM
Re the Sat option, I do have a Technomate TM5600 on Atlantic Bird 5w, I have an out of date Bis card, my card supplier was unreliable so I did not renew, and therefore lost TF1.
Would I need a new TNT box to use TNTsat?
Via my Bis card I still get France 2 + other channels so It is just TF1 I seek
By the way no luck with the DRT signals - not a flicker!
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Bryan: I'm not a professional, so I'm just relying on what I've found online and my response is limited.
A couple of pages I read say that TF1 is (or perhaps was) encrypted on satellite and that you might require a TNT SAT receiver or card.
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