All posts by Rex Bartlett
Below are all of Rex Bartlett's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Tonight I've been getting the same message as Roger Peters, and I'm in Swindon too, SN5 4ET, receiving from Oxford. Oddly this has only appeared in the past hour or so, 10pm on the night before I'm told to retune. And like Roger this only appears on my Sony TV but not on my Humax pvr, both of which are on the same aerial.
Anyone know why we're getting this message?
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Stephen:
This no longer works (if it ever did), even when you select detailed view.
A roundabout way to find the actual frequency of a channel on here is to go to C31 (554.0MHz) after switchover where it will tell you that that the frequency of channel 31 is 554.0MHz.
So it's a simple, if annoying, matter of substituting the channel number you want to know the frequency of. eg C29 (538.0MHz) after switchover
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Or, I've just noticed, to scroll to the bottom of the page of any one of these pages where there's a list under "Switchover complete" and you can click on one of those.
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Same here. Using Firefox at SN5 4ET, I just get mobile phone masts and nothing happens when clicking on 'Freeview Coverage' at top left of map.
And in the 'Predicted Freeview channel list' my only 'predicted' transmitter is given as Seagry Court which is a light transmitter which has never been any use to me.
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SN5 4ET
For the past 24 hrs I have lost all channels, HD and SD. Occasionally some will come back on for a few minutes or seconds with my Sony reading 100% strength and 100% quality but then they go again with both at 0%.
I had the same thing happen last summer when I lost everything, due, I think, to atmospherics. I'm right on the edge of the Oxford transmitter area. I was advised last time to tune into Seagry Court which is only 3 miles away but when I tried this I got absolutely nothing, probably because there is a hill in the way.
I'm puzzled that all channels and muxes somehow disappear altogether with 0% readings. As the weather forecast is for unusually mild weather together with high pressure can I assume that this is probably the cause of my blackout? And if so does anyone have any suggestions what I might do about it?
I have a roof aerial, don't ask me what sort, which is amplified with 2 separate sockets with only the one being used.
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Chris.SE:
Many thanks Chris. I'm sort of pleased that it was as I suspected re tropospherics and my complete loss of signals. Also very much appreciated is your explanation why I could not get anything from Seagry Court even though my aerial points that way, roughly in the same direction as the Oxford transmitter.
As it seems a new aerial is in order sooner or later, can I ask for more advice? My usual reception from Oxford isn't that bad, apart from times like this once in a while, and as my present aerial looks a feeble affair that was erected 40 yrs ago, do you think a better quality higher gain more directional aerial would be less prone to these blackouts happening to me? Is there maybe a super whiz aerial that would allow me to tune into both the Seagry Court and Oxford muxes? Or is this question just displaying my ignorance?
Either way, thanks for explaining so clearly. Thankfully, everything seemed to return to normal during the course of this evening. Happy New Year!
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Sunday 20 March 2011 12:23AM
Swindon
We can only hope and pray, Adey. I live in Purton and for the past few days it's been bad, and tonight particularly so. No BBC's (Mux 1) at all. Glad I'm not into rugby or I'd have been really p****d off. Knew it would be like this because the forecast was for high pressure and clear frosty weather. Much better when it's raining and there's not much going on at Lyneham or Fairford.