[Closed] This digital changeover today.

Why does that mean that I can now only get BBC1 and BBC2 from BBC Wales

Because your Freeview box has decided that a Welsh transmitter is the strongest & defaulted to that?
The WinterHill channels may be there but need sorting in the menu

Your aerial is pointed at the wrong transmitter?

ours has been off since may.

its turd. freezes for 2 seconds ever 2 mins or so if too much power is being draw from the house (kettle and microwave mainly)

you can manually choose the channels i think if you want the welshy ones?

Nope, aerial is pointed straight at Winter Hill, which is nearly 180 degrees from the nearest Welsh one, which is much further away, Denbigh Hills I think.

if you want the welshy ones?

I'm being given the welshy ones and don't want them. Want the English ones that I got yesterday.

 

which is nearly 180 degrees from the nearest Welsh one

Crap aerial with poor rear rejection

The 'Welshy ones' are coming straight up the back of the aerial

The 'Welshy ones' are coming straight up the back of the aerial

But the house is in the way of the signal. Will the signal bounce round things?

But the house is in the way of the signal. Will the signal bounce round things?

It'll reflect or go straight through things

OK, if the aerial is crap, with poor rear rejection, what is a good aerial? I know nowt about such things.

[url= http://www.freeview.co.uk/freeview/content/download/2777/16292/file/Manual_retuning_factsheet.pdf ]Do a manual retune[/url]

before anything else - it may well sort it

Done a manual retune, but no difference. TV did an automatic retune when we switched it on. Still getting welsh telly. Not happy.

Anyone know anything about aerials?

When you did a manual retune did it find any of the Winter Hill carriers?

There should be something in the setup menu on the TV to stop it auto tuning

"freezes for 2 seconds ever 2 mins or so if too much power is being draw from the house"

Personally, I'd blame the electrical supply/wiring, not a transmitter 40 miles away.

Yup, found them all and is giving a full reading for them, but it still prefers Moel y Parc. (TV is nearly new, bought for this changeover to avoid any problems like this!!)

In a direct line Winter Hill is about 20 miles away, and the Welsh one is some 60 miles.

There'll be something in the instructions for your TV telling you how to force it to use certain channels

Well sorted after a fashion. I can tell TV how to use certain channels, but it's a lot of button pushing. I've found "normal" BBC 1 & 2 now. Instead of them being programmes 1 & 2 they are now programmes 800 and 801. It's easier just to use these than set up profiles etc on the TV. BBC 1 is going all digital in a month, so we might have more fun then.

Also, as the signal now appears weaker than the Welsh one after our change over, then logic says that the Welsh one might also loose strength when they change, whenever that may be.

As we can get to watch what we want we'll sit on it ftb. Thanks for your help, esp uplink.

I've not had analogue TV for about 7 or 8 years now and never had any trouble.

There could also be an option to sort the channels
ie allocate BBC1 to programme 1 etc

Don't confuse the term channel with programme though in the menu
Channel is a double digit no between 21 & 68 & refers to a specific frequency & can't be altered, whereas programme numbers are the actual TV numbers - Lots of people mix that up & it can become confusing

I'll have a look into that^^^

I don't speak yacky da, and use vowels, so why do I have to put up with the spittle sprayers?

Perhaps your set top box has detected that you are in fact a knob.

Happy to Help...

you are in fact a knob

Takes one to know one.