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All posts by Liam Boyle

Below are all of Liam Boyle's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.

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Monday 14 May 2012 8:02PM
Peterborough

Hi,
I am having a few problems since retuning, as advised by the latest on screen message. My postcode is PE3 8LD and I am tuned to the Sandy transmitter (but see below).

Problem 1.
My main tv is a recently purchased Samsung LED model. The aerial is external on a 3 metre pole and was replaced when I went digital. I also have a signal booster. I can get all the channels I should.....but, I now get BBC Look North, from Belmont presumably, instead of BBC Look East which is a complete mystery bearing in mind the aerial points at Sandy, in exactly the opposite direction to Belmont. Am I getting a signal off the back of the aerial? If so, what is the point of aligning it?

Problem 2.
I also have a Sony receiver/HDD recorder and can not now get channels 8,10,27,30,31,38,39,44,47,60,62 and 72. I have cleared out the original channels and replaced them with the retuned ones. There doesn't appear to be any manual tune option with this item.

Problem 3.
I have a secondary Matsui idtv, about 3 years old, which runs off the same aerial as the main tv. This also has it's own booster. I cannot now get channels 10,11,16,19,20,23,25,27,29,30,31,36,37,38,39,43,44,46,49,60,62,72and 82. However, and this is really odd, I do get Look East on it!!

Please use both sides of the paper and show your workings....... : )
Liam

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Monday 14 May 2012 8:09PM

Sorry, forgot to say that I have completely reset the Matsui tv and reloaded the channels
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Wednesday 16 May 2012 8:32AM

jb38.
Thanks for that. Pre-digital I was tuned to Anglia but when I converted to digital, the installer lined me up with Waltham. I had it changed back to Sandy to receive Anglia again. It seems I will have to go back to Waltham : (
L

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Monday 23 September 2013 10:00PM
Peterborough

There are no reported problems with the Sandy transmitter but I have not been able to receive anything on channels 27 and 24 since 17.00 today. Anyone have any clues?

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Tuesday 24 September 2013 10:15PM
Peterborough

Liam:
Well, another evening of grief with the Sandy transmitter. Cleared all the channels and manually retuned - it made no difference (as expected).
Since the switchover, I have lost count of the number of times I have retuned. I have replaced the aerial, twice. Had new boosters. Taken off boosters, all at considerable cost for something i didn't ask for in the first place. It has all made no difference.
My hdr regularly fails to record, because the signal breaks up resulting in missed programmes that I really did want to see. I watch more on iplayer/itv player than I watch live and it makes me wonder why I fork out for a licence every year.
If you had such consistently bad service from a garage, you would go somewhere else. So I have. Virgin ordered. Goodbye Digital con trick. Out.

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