All posts by Richard Wood
Below are all of Richard Wood's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.My elderly neighbour's large, modern, Samsung TV has a weird fault on Freeview: anything moving on the screen (person, car, etc) outlines in RGB 'sparkles' (like a Photoshop effect). The TV's inbuilt test picture displays perfectly, the signal strength shows as 100%. Any ideas?
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Mike B: Thanks for that.
I think that my neighbour has a DVD player, so I'll take a DVD round and test with that sometime, not just now though...
I just saw her a few minutes ago and she said that the fault has gone, but she also said that it goes and comes back. I don't want her to think that a test which I've done has brought the fault back!
I think that her RF co-ax feeds into a splitter-booster. Could the signal be 'over-boosted'? Is that possible?
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Catherine: I take it that you live in Cambridge not in one of the (rare) not-spots around the edges. I'm in CB1 2 (Petersfield ward) and have no issues. Whereabouts are you? Check that you have a WIDEBAND aerial, pointing WSW (towards Sandy Heath). Mine's even in the loft and works well!
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Here in central Cambridge (CB1) I have 719 BBC Radio Norfolk; 722 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire from the Sandy Heath transmitter BBC East (W) ITV Anglia (W) sub-region.
The Sandy Heath transmitter signal covers substantial parts of east Suffolk, north Essex, north Herts, Beds, Bucks, Northants, south-east Leicestershire and south Lincs, in addition to Cambs and east Norfolk.
I'm wondering why none of BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, BBC Essex, BBC Three Counties Radio, BBC Radio Northampton, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, BBC Radio Leicester have Freeview slots on this transmitter.
Or might they arrive in the fullness of time?
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Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview transMonday 21 September 2015 4:22PM
Northampton
Daughter at NN1 5BT has lost most channels. From what she says, it looks like they only have PSB1, PSB2. The ones they have are subject to break-up.
They have good quality outdoor aerial, and received all channels with good reception until recently.
TV is Sharp LC-32D44E-BK
Any suggestions?
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Wednesday 13 April 2011 10:43AM
Cambridge
Rescanned successfully on 3 Freeview TVs, 2 digiboxes serving analogue TVs and 1 Elgato EyeTV for the iMac. Each receiving all channels, all MUXes, all programmes from wideband loft aerials.
HOWEVER...
We have a DVR (Digihome DTR0207 twin terrestrial tuner) which worked just fine (well, with the occasional freeze or pixelllation consistent with a loft aerial pre-switchover) until 3-6 months ago. We considered replacing this box but decided to await the mid-April 'final' re-scan and associated power-boost.
After today's re-scan, ALL that it will find is MuxC on C40.
This PVR is fed by an aerial which does not go through a booster/splitter. (I have tried it fed from the other loft aerial, through the booster/splitter same performance.) The RF out from the PVR feeds a Freeview TV which re-scanned successfully today, finding all channels, all MUXes, all programmes.
Any suggestions?