By providing a full postcode (such as W1A 1AA), national grid reference (for example SE123456) or latitude, longitude pair (like 54, -0.5) this page will provide a map, terrain plot and detailed information of the location showing the UK and RoI television transmitters that it is possible you receive Freeview, Freeview HD, Youview, BT TV and Saorview from.
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These predictions are based upon a rooftop aerial and depend on the suitability of the aerial, the distance to the transmitters, the power of their signals, the postcode area, and local terrain.Monday, 3 July 2023
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Steve Donaldson4:20 PM
Chris B: Knowledge of your location in the form of postcode, or nearby postcode, would allow us to see what sort of signal you might be expected to receive.
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Chris.SE10:16 PM
Chris B:
Also worth noting that Windermere is a relay of Caldbeck which is listed for Planned Engineering! I don't know how the signals to Windermere are fed, but it's possible that work at Caldbeck might affect them, so Windermere should also be listed, but we know that the lists are not always 100% accurate.
As Steve Donaldson has said a manual tune of UHF C41 is the sensible option.
Automated tuning if signals are missing or badly pixelated often just clear the correct tuning, if you were correctly tuned before, it's never advised to retune when you have badly pixellated signals or no signal.
Recent weather conditions caused interference to some signals in some areas and if you were affected and you retuned during that, as already mentioned, it's probably cleared your tuning.
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Tuesday, 4 July 2023
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Steve Donaldson12:13 AM
Chris.SE: Windermere is a relay of Kendal.
Kendal is no longer a relay of Caldbeck. At switchover a sub region for BBC North West and ITV Border was created, with Kendal as the parent. This was so as to maintain the regional coverage as it was with analogue, where ITV and C4 were taken from Caldbeck and BBC1 and BBC2 from Winter Hill.
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Chris.SE1:13 AM
Steve Donaldson:
Thanks for the correction, I shall in future cross-check more than one document for information such as that. At least OFCOM's 700MHz Clearance spreadsheet (which has other errors!) and DUK/Arqiva's clearance pdfs have that correct as well.
That doesn't throw the theory out of the window totally, Kendal was listed for Planned Engineering in the last week of May and first week of June, again I don't know how Windermere is fed from Kendal.
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Chris.SE1:20 AM
Steve Donaldson:
Just to add, it's great to have your obvious knowledge and experience around here. It's been a bit thin on the ground in recent times with just 2 or 3 of us most of the time trying to answer queries.
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Saturday, 8 July 2023
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Steve Donaldson12:53 PM
Chris.B: The 700MHz Clearance spreadsheet is one of the documents I was referring to myself. The Freeview predictor lists only the ITV region, although it omits the sub-region where applicable.
The BT network diagrams from the 1980s show SHF links between Caldbeck and Lancaster:
Lancaster (IBA): BT Microwave Sites
According to mb21, Windermere receives Kendal off-the-air:
mb21 - The Transmission Gallery
The Kendal transmitter group is as follows:
Kendal
---- Coniston
---- Hawkshead
---- Kendal Fell
---- Sedburgh
-------- Millthrop
---- Windermere
-------- Crosthwaite
-------- Grasmere
The indentations are denote the relays. Millthorp is a relay of Sedburgh, and Crosthwaite and Grasmere are relays of Windermere, hence the double indentations.
The sources for this are the 700MHz Clearance spreadsheet, which shows the relays, and mb21, which informs as to whether a relay is fed directly from Kendal or from another relay.
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Chris.SE2:09 PM
Nottingham
Steve Donaldson:
Great detail, thanks. Lets hope mb21 is up-to-date, it usually is.
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Chris.SE's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
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Ted Slater12:52 PM
Chris.SE
Apologies for the delay since April! Other issues crowding life and a certain degree of sloth around this particular problem - noli nothis permittere te terere and all that.
I've currently given up with Humax support - like you I'm convinced it's a problem with the Aura (only 9 months old) but, as they can't guarantee that a full reset of the box will retain my recordings (they "think" it will be ok!!) I haven't had the nerve to try it. A full retune with a cleared memory doesn't fix the problem.
In the meantime, I'm content to use Quest+1 - the problem seems to be solely on COM6.
Thanks again
Ted
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Chris.SE1:49 PM
Ted Slater:
No problem Ted. What a shame that Humax haven't got a solution, or even know what the cause is!
Is it capable of transferring recordings to a USB stick?
If so, you could contemplate that and then try a full reset!
BUT if it is, check the USB recordings first. I've heard of some issues on some devices where HD recordings suffer judder on playback, no idea what the cause may be except maybe the USB stick can't cope with higher bit rates!
If I come across anything else I'll post it.
You could try an email to help@freeview.co.uk and ask them "What are the technical differences between transmission of Quest LCN12 on COM6/ArqB and Quest+1 LCN70 on COM5/ArqA and then explain that LCN12 is missing from your EPG despite retunes. Also ask "And/or are their technical errors in the EPG?" (I know there are some but don't know if they'd be the cause).
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Wednesday, 23 August 2023
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Elaine Graham-Leigh2:14 PM
London
Getting intermittent no signal for BBCA channels and occasionally SDN channels, other multiplexes are fine. This has been happening for a few months. It doesn't sound like induction interference as it isn't momentary - once the channels disappear they're gone for the evening, reappearing the next day. Problem happens when using our Humax Aura box and when bypassing the box and plugging the aerial directly into the TV (Panasonic 2013) so I don't think it's our equipment.
Signal strength for other multiplexes around 80% with 100% signal quality, but when we have apparently 'good' reception the signal strength on BBCA and SDN is only just over 50%. Aerial is on the roof and was replaced 2020, aerial guy tested and couldn't find a problem with the aerial or connections, except for some 5G interference, for which we now have the gadget from Restore TV, but this hasn't made any difference. Any suggestions for what we should try next?
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