All posts by Anthony
Below are all of Anthony's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
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New Freeview and Freesat channel TruTV to start soon | TV channWednesday 21 May 2014 8:20AM
Accrington
A 44cm or greater size zone 2 minidish will often solve problems for satellite reception as it will pull in more signal and give more rainfade margin over a 38cm zone 1 minidish. SES Astra actually recommend a 50cm dish for reception of their satellites in the United Kingdom which will give a better all weather reception even in heavy rain unless snow completely covers the dish of course.
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New Freeview and Freesat channel TruTV to start soon | TV channWednesday 21 May 2014 8:35PM
Accrington
yes paul a basic fta satellite receiver or freesat hd satbox should work with your existing minidish thats at your new abode.
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Brian M. Leahy: you are right dab does consume batteries like no tomorrow. I wont touch dab with a bargepole because of this and the mediocre quality, also dab reception is poor in large areas of the unitedkingdom with patchy poor or non existant reception in some parts, also many stations are mono as well. I use a sony cd radio cassette from argos because I prefer fm being crisper clearer and with lovely stereo quality to boot. Beats dab anyday.A
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John Martin: Curved tv's are horrid and offer ridiculous viewing angles over normal flat screeners!
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Sharealam: vintagetv is a connected tv channel you need a freeview hd tv or set top box connected to a broadband connection. You cannot watch this channel on normal dvb standard equipment.
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When is hd multiplex channel 37 starting this year and what channels will be transmitting on it?
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Hospital NO390303 (Dundee City, Scotland) analogue radio transmMonday 23 June 2014 11:12PM
Accrington
spotify95: an omnidirectional fm aerial properly installed high up should help pull it in an get you a plethora of stations from all transmitters too.
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HD multiplex 54 from winterhill was poor for a while tonight with occasional pixellation and breakup;the quality level was 60-70% signal strength 35% is this down to the weather or something else? The other HD multiplex on 31 was largely fine just an occasional glitch. I checked the aerial and cabling and there is nothing wrong there.
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David i'am receiving winter hill transmissions in Accrington Lancashire and thats nowhere near Ireland so dont think Kippure hd multiplex in the RoI could be causing the interference. I use a 48 element wideband high gain aerial linked to a 1 set booster and technika freeview hd box and samsung 32"led freeview television. The freeview hd receiver is connected by HDMI between box and tv. I dont suffer tidal fading and reflections from signals over water either. I can only think high pressure over the uk is causing the problems on winter hill hd multiplex 54.
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Wednesday 14 May 2014 9:08AM
Accrington
I agree Michael;there are areas of the UK where DAB is either poor patchy or non-existant even with the relevant transmitters set up especially areas with mountains and hills and isolated rural areas in the wilds of scotland ireland and wales, also, many DAB transmitters also use very puny and inadequate low power levels for transmission which doesn't help either.