All posts by William Hill
Below are all of William Hill's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
In terms of efficient use of bandwidth getting the radio stations back is by far the better option.
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I live in Eyemouth, I only have a loft Ariel but it has worked 99.9% of the time. The only time it went out was probably due to atmospheric conditions. I now have an LCD TV with Freeview HD built in. I've now found that a set-top ariel will work fine if positioned correctly. If you have an old one lying around it might be worth a try. The signal strength might be slightly lower but it wont effect the picture.
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I only mentioned a set-top Ariel because it's easy to move about and pick up what might be a very directional signal. I was even able to receive a signal from the Grampian transmitter for a very short period over the summer and that's a very long way away indeed.
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Eyemouth (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) Freeview Light transmWednesday 2 April 2014 1:28PM
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OK, I can see that the Eyemouth transmitter is currently down. So I wont try and retune my TV. Your tracking seems to be working well, good job.
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I just retuned my Freeview HD Sony TV and got a whole host of new channels from the Eyemouth transmitter, I had thought that this was just a technical issue to re-allocate channel numbers. Now I have to click through about 80 channels to find the one I want, but it's an improvement on the 13 or so channels I was getting before. Happy viewing.
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William Hill: As I suspected the actually extra channels I received on 3rd Sept were weak signals from the Durris transmitter not the Eyemouth transmitter and they were not stable, so I had to do a rescan and went back to about 52 channels, several which simply state that the have been moved to a new channel i.e. ch80 to ch 130 BBC News. So, it's back to a restricted selection of channels for me.
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Problems started on Saturday with signal drop out and no video on the HD channels 101 to 105. I tried the auto digital tune on my Sony TV and these channels disappeared completely. Same situation this morning so I did another auto digital tune and channels 101 to 105 are back. I can only assume the HD Mux was down or faulty for several hours as the SD channels were always fine.
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Saturday 2 July 2011 5:40PM
I receive Freeview HD through an aerial in the TD14 area (Eyemouth in the borders) so I don't normally get signals from the Durris transmitter. Last night about 40 new channels appeared on my Sony HD telly, I can only assume there were some freak atmospheric conditions, some of the channels were quite weak but several were viewable. I did a rescan
later and they disappeared. We used to get a very weak analog signal many years ago. Just shows how far a signal can travel when there is line of sight across an expanse of sea.