Help please-FREEVIEW BOX, LAST CHANCE

ampersand

Moneymaker wrote:

Ampersand if you tell me your postcode I'll check what aerial system you need.

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Hello moneymaker -
As above? May be unrelated. but was supposed to be in perfect Orange area for mobile(open small village setting, farmland and no-rise beside/behind me)but had to change SIM for signal. It now works with a Tesco one.
Sorry to all helpers so far - went out for Times(yes, yes, loathe Murdoch, but The Times has Kate Muir and a few others), saw notice for village Scouts jumble, so went there, too.

Moneymaker

Yes, it's best to PM me your postcode. Don't want everyone turning up at your door!

ampersand

albertross wrote:

They are usually colour coded with a bit of coloured plastic stuck in the end of the tubing.

Group A (colour code red) is C21 to C37
Group B (colour code yellow) is C35 to C53
Group C/D (colour code green) is C48 to C68
Group E (colour code brown) is C35 to C68
Group K (colour code grey) is C21 to C48
Wideband (colour code black) is C21 to C68

http://www.freeview.co.uk/availability

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Thankyou again albertross - went through such agonies, PC World(another sort of Hades) and tesco repeat trips, idiot questions here, completely debilitating desperation - and have never seen this f/v site till clicking your link now. It didn't come up via Google for me.

ampersand

judderman62 wrote:

you could maybe try a signal booster ?

#Hello judderman62,
As above, please.
(And a jub-jub bird for your glory, while we're there)
Reception is often not wonderful, but I don't watch a lot. About to be in and out for the Rugger!!!!!!boys though - good NZer,I, need not get wound up for my fellas. I'm afraid I probably incline to Ireland today. after last week, vs France(mon terroir) - A MATCH!

Moneymaker

OK, your local transmitter is Sandy Heath. If you have an existing aerial for analogue, it will be a "Group A" which is useless for digital at your location.

The Sandy Heath digital multiplexes use UHF channel numbers 40, 42, 43, 45, 46, 67, so ideally you need a "Group E" aerial but these are hard to come by so a "Group W" (W for "Wideband") should do.

Signal field strength at your postcode location is 46dBuV/m. A Freeview receiver needs at least 53dBuV so an aerial with 53-46 = 7dB gain would normally be fine. However, if you use it indoors, the results will be worse (and unpredictable) so I suggest you go for a higher gain one such as a Blake SR13WB which gives 13dBd of gain. The higher you can mount it, the better.

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Be sure to use fully-screened cable!

crompton

it depends which channels you want cable/freeview for because apparently ntl is dropping sky one, sky news, sky sports news etc. before the end of the year

ampersand

Moneymaker wrote:

OK, your local transmitter is Sandy Heath. If you have an existing aerial for analogue, it will be a "Group A" which is useless for digital at your location.

The Sandy Heath digital multiplexes use UHF channel numbers 40, 42, 43, 45, 46, 67, so ideally you need a "Group E" aerial but these are hard to come by so a "Group W" (W for "Wideband") should do.

Signal field strength at your postcode location is 46dBuV/m. A Freeview receiver needs at least 53dBuV so an aerial with 53-46 = 7dB gain would normally be fine. However, if you use it indoors, the results will be worse (and unpredictable) so I suggest you go for a higher gain one such as a Blake SR13WB which gives 13dBd of gain. The higher you can mount it, the better.

See picture: http://www.!!!!!!.uk/accs/page11g.htm

Another possible aerial (which takes up less space) is shown on this page:
http://www.!!!!!!.uk/tech/logperiodic.htm

Be sure to use fully-screened cable!

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Moneymaker - a huge thankyou. This is just what I need to take with me, so that it will be you, rather than me, explaining what's what/what's needed to whoever. Your virtual presence and knowledge will be fluently there, rather than my bumbling ignorance.
It may be a week or two, but i will report back.
Should I return this present Freeview box?
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Bit of a rout at Croke Park, was listening rather than watching.

ampersand

crompton wrote:

it depends which channels you want cable/freeview for because apparently ntl is dropping sky one, sky news, sky sports news etc. before the end of the year

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Thankyou crompton - yes, I had heard this sort of thing in relation to Virgin vs Sky and mentioned early on.
I'd like to hear all BBC radio. Can hear several French stations now easily enough and don't know if Freeview enhances this sort of range.

ampersand

Have now returned Freeview box to Tesco and will wait until cable arrives in village.
Thankyou to all who offered help.