Very likely. An aerial does not need to be changed for Freeview. (unless the frequencies are changed).
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Very likely. An aerial does not need to be changed for Freeview. (unless the frequencies are changed).
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Not heard of the internet?
He wants Freeview not streamed TV.
In the end it's not a complete disaster. So long as a person knows which is their local transmitter, then it is possible to manually tune 2 or 3 mux channels. There are Web sites that list transmitters by house post code. TV user manuals are often available online. I'm not saying that it's easy, but neither is it beyond the capability of the average person either.
Four TV's here and usable signals from Yorkshire and Tyne-Tees due to my altitude. Three of them auto-tune without any help, just picking the best/strongest transmitter - Emley Moor, which is the correct one. Big LG, has to be told country, county and town, before it settles for Emley Moor, if fed unattenuated signal. Fit an attenuator and it will accept Emley Moor without my help. I bought the attenuator, when trying to resolve an issue with its program listing data being lost/corrupted. The attenuator helped, until LG released a firmware fix.
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HIS name is Alison.!
Yep. That'll do it.
There was an aerial job I did where the customer told me they'd lost their signal too. I started the usual trouble-shooting. When I took the aerial lead out of the back of the TV it was like hanging up wet washing. Drip... drip... drip. Turning to the customer, I said I think I might have found the problem. His face was a picture. We turned the TV off at the mains.
Thankfully it hadn't got to that point lol Couldn't have been very good for the TV.
I'm assuming that the monsoon we had didn't help it much.
Your explanation was spot on though and at least I looked like I knew what he was talking about when he handed me said knackered amplifier
I'm assuming that the monsoon we had didn't help it much.
Your explanation was spot on though and at least I looked like I knew what he was talking about when he handed me said knackered amplifier
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For stale EPG data, try leaving the set displaying BBC1 (from it's own tuner, not a Sky box or a recorder etc), for an hour or two.
As I recall, that is the channel that carries the EPG data.
As I recall, that is the channel that carries the EPG data.
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I can see Wilson's point, my son in law took his box to friends house to tune it into signals, then brought it home ready tuned so he knew when the dish was pointing in the right direction. In his case satellite so only the set top box needed moving house to house.
But since you have a shared roof, it may be better to pay for some one with a tuning meter to set it up.
I had a problem with mothers house, TV would work when I switched on, but hour latter it would stop, got guy to test it, and he said it was fine, then realised it was the power supply at fault, seems it was being overloaded, we had many attempts to cure it, two aerials it seems pointing to different transmitters so tried two power supplies, but nudge them with vacuum cleaner and signal lost again, had chimney re-pointer needing scaffold so got new aerial without mast head amp fitted at same time and no more problems.
When we came to move house, we found a collection of aerial amplifiers, so tried using them in new house, out of the three tried, two were useless and went in the bin, once got one working then did not test the rest, but it would seem from number found dad was having problems for some time.
Found new house gets signal from a repeater which only sends a few multiplex signals in this direction, so moved to satellite.
But since you have a shared roof, it may be better to pay for some one with a tuning meter to set it up.
I had a problem with mothers house, TV would work when I switched on, but hour latter it would stop, got guy to test it, and he said it was fine, then realised it was the power supply at fault, seems it was being overloaded, we had many attempts to cure it, two aerials it seems pointing to different transmitters so tried two power supplies, but nudge them with vacuum cleaner and signal lost again, had chimney re-pointer needing scaffold so got new aerial without mast head amp fitted at same time and no more problems.
When we came to move house, we found a collection of aerial amplifiers, so tried using them in new house, out of the three tried, two were useless and went in the bin, once got one working then did not test the rest, but it would seem from number found dad was having problems for some time.
Found new house gets signal from a repeater which only sends a few multiplex signals in this direction, so moved to satellite.
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