All posts by Elaine
Below are all of Elaine's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
I'll add my name to the list of people unable to pick up channel 67, but it was always a matter of luck and weather as to whether I could pick them up on their old channel. Who knows, when it stops tipping it down they might come back :)
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The top of the page still mentions transmitter engineering works, saying service will be "liable to interruption" - that might have been it.
I might rescan mine again, but I suspect my problem is because they've moved ArqB to 64QAM - I've never been able to pick up the ITV3 MUX, which is the other one on low strength 64QAM.
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JPWarner: There's lower power (shown on the signal strength bars at the top of this page) for the commercial multiplexes - A, C and COM6. However, the ones that the main BBC channels are on (i.e. the public service multiplexes) are broadcasting at 100%.
Can't help you with why the broadcast doesn't seem to be reaching you, though :(
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Not sure whether this may help anyone, but I thought someone asked about reception in Bristol.
For once I've not had trouble with the latest changes, at BS4 4DN. I'm receiving the BBC channels (and CH48) with no trouble, on both LG LED HD TV (signal & quality both showing 100% for CH48 and CH49) and Panasonic DMR-EX75 (signal c. 8/10, quality 10/10 for both CH48 and CH49). This is on a wide gain roof aerial with mast-top amplifier left over from the days when Mendip was transmitting at reduced power.
Interestingly, I think the Panasonic managed to pick up PSB2 from the Barton House relay (somewhere behind the aerial!), although the LG hasn't.
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Jonny: probably best to check your postcode on this website to see what your forecast coverage is likely to be.
Depending on where in Stroud you are, I would imagine the hills surrounding the Five Valleys may get in the way of the main signal from Mendip. In that case, you may be getting your signal from a local public service relay. For example, Stroud has its own relay (https://ukfree.tv/shutdowndetail.php?tx=SO836077), which you may be getting if your main BBC1 channel comes in on UHF 40 (on Mendip it comes in on UHF 49).
If it's only relaying public service ("Freeview Lite"), then I think you'll only get PSB1, PSB2 and PSB3. Since Film 4 is on COM6, a commercial set of channels, you may not be able to get it at all.
Are you also missing channels such as ITV4 and Yesterday? Can you get Dave or ITV3? These are all on commercial UHF channels which the Stroud transmitter is not relaying.
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Re Gareth, you sound from the postcode like you're round the corner from my parents, who have generally had better Freeview reception from Mendip than I do here in Bristol, so for Mike B I'd tend to trust the generic signal forecast. Unfortunately my phone's just gone down, so I can't ask them if they've had Freeview issues recently. I note that they didn't seem to have much storm impact this week, but all the rain could have got into cabling.
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Friday 7 January 2011 8:52AM
David: it says at the top of the page, just under the transmission frequencies "NOTE: Mendip COM multiplexes will temporarily operate on channels 62+ for SDN, 56+ for Arqiva A, and 59+ for Arqiva B (all at 10kW ERP) until Autumn 2011. Final DSO channels will then be adopted, though ERP levels will remain limited until early 2012."
Basically it seems we don't get full power until next door (Meridian I think) switches in 2012.