All posts by Colin Brown
Below are all of Colin Brown's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Will: re Craigkelly limitations. Thanks,I am aware of the your point on other transmitters using channels but I repeat only 4 MUXs in range is a bit limiting. Even your own example of Durris shows 6 MUXs in range (all below 30). Dont want to be meow but how come we cannot have one of these for Craigkelly so at least we both have five in range!
And the bottom line for lots of the recent comments here is that the advertising of 'Just retune to get your channels back' is not that easy if they have moved the new MUXes out of range! Aerial installers in Edinburgh must be loving installing dual A and B aerials or wideband aerials.
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re my previous posts .. I have had to relent and now have good reception on all MUXs from my shiny new wideband aerial. Unfortunately the decision at DSO to have Craigkelly as one of only about 5% of transmitters to be wideband has cost me over £100 - not quite a simple retune eh? I wonder what the total cost of this decision is to folks in Edinburgh. Lucky you folks on Blackhill etc.
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Ho hum. First of all I had to spend £100 for a new aerial at switchover, because the planners could not fit all the muxs into a single band aerial for viewers in the capital of Scotland! Now a card through the post today saying might get interference from 4G mobiles .. and where? On C21 of course - just where BBC1,2, STV and channel 4 HDs are. Who plans these things?
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John Robinson - thats a bit disengenuous. Before switchover many of the other services WERE on muxs in Craigkelly's band. My decision sitting in the capital of Scotland was to loose the commercial channels moved outside the band I WAS ALREADY RECEIVING and hard luck - while other transmitters nearby had all their muxs within a single band aerial at stitchover - not just the PSBmuxs.
MikeB - I understand but given all the tests quoted on AT800's site and project planning for a multi million pounds rollout can we not be more specific for mere members of the public? I have suggested to AT800 a postcode search to show which local masts have been switched on and when. And silly me I thought I had received a card because I was one of a few in a potentially susceptible area. Have they flooded the whole of Edinburgh and South Fife with cards?
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Lost psb2 (c24) this morning (STV, Channel 4 , channel 5 etc). Tried At800 filter just in case - still nothing. Is there a problem? Anyone else lost this mux?
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Joe Graham: Odd. Tried switch of and on - no effect. Took life in my hands and rescanned - hey presto its back again! I know nothing of the technology but I wonder what causes just one channel to disappear from the box even though it is being transmitted?
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Programs on com5 such as 11 and 36 breaking up. Com5 seems to be on power. Signal strength below 20% on my freeview box.
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Friday 17 June 2011 7:48AM
Im in Mortonhall and have the same problem of 'out of group' muxes (e.g. 42, 45). My complaint is that some channels in these muxes(e.g. ITV3, 5USA) which were fine before are now gone. How did they manage the switchover without thinking about continuity of service? We now have only 4 MUXs 'in range' (21,24,27,30). What about the other 12 possible frequencies between C21 and C36???