BBC digital gone down?

We seem to have lost all the Beeb channels on our set-top box. Including
Freeview. Various ITV channels etc unaffested.

Anyone?

 

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Hm. I wonder if our set-top box has fritzed? But then I suppose we'd
lose all the channels....

 

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I've had that on and off for the past few weeks

especially ITV, CH4, E4 (but not E4+1) - so that's back to front to what
you're getting

pixellating and freezing all over the place

maybe its something to do with the channel number changes

 

BBC 1 London is broadcast from Astra 2D @ 28.2deg East using the
Horizontal polarity at 10,773gHz.

On the same frequency from that transponder the following channels are
broadcast:

BC One London
BBC Two England
BBC Four
CBBC
CBeebies UK
BBC Three
BBC One Northern Ireland
Five (Region 2)

Do the above seem to work?

If not, do the following channels also appear to fail:

Channel 4 London, More 4 UK +1, Talk Sport (radio)? And try Zone
Horror +1.

If none of the above work then your box is probably fooked and can't
switch from Vertical to Horizontal polarity.

Channels broadcast from Astra 2D using the vertical polarity are:

Channel 4 London +1, More 4 UK, ITV 1 London, etc.

Do they work?

 

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hit the spot for now.

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Dunno why that is. E4 and E4 +1 are not only transmitted from just
Astra 2D, but also the same beam, transponder, polarity and frequency.

Transponder 42, Astra 2D, 10,729 vertical:

E4 UK +1
E4 UK
Channel 4 London
Channel 4 South & East +1
Channel 4 Midlands +1
Channel 4 North +1
Channel 4 Northern Ireland +1
Channel 4 Scotland +1
More 4 UK

Do an 'add other channels' style search on your digibox and add them
in as 'other channels' and you should be getting the same problems on
all of the above stations. Astra 2D is very, very focused on the UK
and Ireland which is why you only need a tiny dish in comparison to
19.2 deg East Astra 1 constallation. See:
http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/astra2d.html so you shouldn't have
any reception problems on clear and cloudy days - thundery days are a
different matter.

Do you have problems with any other channels?

Nope. Channel numbers are just a minor change to the EPG - the
frequencies, etc. remain the same.

 

Interesting. I've been getting the same with CH4, but not +1.

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Find out which C4 region you're on and look here:

http://www.lyngsat.com/28east.html

All Channel 4 regions are on Astra 2D, but Channel 4 London is on
Astra 2A North which is aimed more at Central & Eastern Europe than
the UK. 2D is aimed only at UK & Ireland (and a bit of Iceland).

http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/astra2a_north.html

 

On the recorder upstairs I now get these channels (ITV and CH4) on 903
and 904

It's all gone ver ver funny

 

I thought Freeview used terrestial transmitters, not satellites.

 

But its only been down for the past month and freeview is transmitted
over terrestrial aerials not satellite

Something, somewhere has changed

signal strength is medium, signal quality is crap according to the meter

 

Freeview isn't Freesat, ffs.

 

She rebooted the set top box and all is now back to normal.

<Waves hands vaguely>

I don't understand this stuff.

 

Well you should start by ignoring BGN's post, or anything else that
mentions satellites (e.g. Astra).

 

Heheheh, that's a decent filter if I ever saw one.

 

Forget all you read.

Freeview uses 6 multiplexes (don't worry about the big scary word,
just think of a multiplex as the same thing as an analogue TV channel
on it's own frequency) each of thos multiplexes carries a number of
channels, as shown on the following page.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/terrestrial/mux/

If you're missing a multiplex you'll also be missing all the channels
associated with it.

 

That would explain why I'm missing itv, ch4 and E4 but not E4+1

I don't see how to solve the problem

 

Guess that's why it never did come up on iPlayer, and now says
"Not available".

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