Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Dover Town Relay was still dithering about 10 minutes ago. If your aerial points towards Buckland Estate perhaps you ought to retune again at lunchtime.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
I just popped upstairs to quickly retune and yes, it did bring in the HD Channels and what a cracking picture too.
I have not taken any time to check this but does anyone know if the schedules on the HD Channels is the same as the schedule on the standard tv channels, if so the standard channels can be deleted.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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turned the box on earlier and everything is as per normal thought i would have to retune.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Howard - you won't have the HD Channels though. Is your box HD capable? If not then a re-tune may not be necessary but I am not sure of that. Some older flat screen TV's advertised when bought as 'HD Ready' may have HD (720p) screens but may not have HD tuners so you would need to buy a HD box or HD PVR.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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mine is hd ready barry but i am not really interested in having hd at this stage.
thanks for info.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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Have just conducted a rescan on my digital TV and now have 75 TV channels and 24 radio channels. This is from the Dover transmitter which is the main area transmitter at Hougham. With the analogue signals switched off, the digital transmissions have been greatly increased in number and all boosted to full power so this should see an end to the reception problems in the past. They were kept down to around 2,000W until now so as not to interfere with the analogue transmissions but have now been boosted to 80,000W, commercial multiplexes somewhat less but still a very substantial 40,000W. PaulB: Your aerial at the high end of the Gateway flats is pointing at Hougham so all your problems should be over.
The Dover Town relay on the top of the hill at Buckland serves all those premises shielded by the Western Heights and unfortunately will only be broadcasting a much more limited selection of channels - 16 standard TV, 5 HD TV, 11 radio. The radiated power will also be increased on these now that the analogue transmissions have ceased.
All the digital multiplexes are being broadcast by both transmitters in the same part of the UHF TV band as the analogue transmissions used to be so the existing TV aerials on each house do not need to be changed and reception will be immensely better now that the power has been boosted.
Guest 643- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I have a TV with freeview and when I switched it on at lunchtime there was nothing there so I retuned it and now have an excellent picture and loads of channels - I'm happy
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,883
We now have an excellent picture on the tv in the kitchen where we could not get BBC1 or BBC2 previously.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
as per the earlier post from ted advice was on hand in town, although people looking in here would have got most of the answers they were looking for.
