We've had problems ever since the changeover on November 13th. Despite regular retunes (auto and manual) we lost most Freeview programmes on both the TV and the Humax box. (With poor on some of those we still had, such as BBC1.) Then a retune on the night of 26th/27th brought them all back - for about 48 hours...

Freeview have just sent out two friendly engineers who decided that the -head was faulty (our fairly recent wide-band is okay, apparently). The new amplifier brought back several programmes, but we're still missing a few, such as Blaze and Horror - wanted for old Star Trek episodes!

It seems that we're not getting one . How is this possible when signal strength on others is reported as high? Is the answer? Or are 'peripheral' Freeview such as these available via broadband on a Fire Stick type plug-in device?

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Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Friday 13 December 2019 8:19PM
Morpeth

Chris.SE:
Thanks, Chris.

Postcode is NE65 8AR. strength is generally held to be poor at this location and we have always needed an (even back in days). However; prior to the November 13th changes, we had enjoyed a pretty full range of with decent . Then we got the problems that I mentioned.

The position right now is that the lost channels have suddenly come ! This was some time after the second engineers' visit when they fitted the new -head amp. As I said in my previous post, that had pulled back all(?) channels apart from the one . In answer to your question, as far as I know, all channels on that one (SDN) were missing.

But then yet another retune, and suddenly there they are... Since nothing has changed at our end in-between, I assume it must be something happening at the , or weather conditions.

Incidentally, our Humax box always seems to pick up more channels than the TV - perhaps a difference in their sensitivity and/or power?

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