[mythtv-users] No reception or EIT for Channel 5 in Essex

Paul Clark battledean at gmail.com
Sun Aug 31 09:15:03 UTC 2008


Just an aerial splitter.  I should try without the splitter I suppose
to rule that out.



2008/8/31 John Taylor <john at vetsurgeon.org.uk>:
> You don't have anything else plugged in when you plug the aerial into
> the mythbox? I seem to remember Channel 5 broadcasts on a frequency
> pretty close to VCR coax outs
>
> John
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Paul Clark <battledean at gmail.com> wrote:
>> To add a spanner into the works, if I plug the aerial straight into
>> the TV with the built in digital tuner, bypassing the Myth box the TV
>> can receive channel 5 and all the other channels that I can't receive
>> when the signal goes via the Myth box.  The TV also picks up the EIT
>> data as well.
>>
>> So the problem happens when I plug the aerial into the Myth box.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> 2008/8/29 Mark Fraser <mythtv at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk>:
>>> On Friday 29 August 2008 11:17:47 Paul Clark wrote:
>>>> We can recieve most Freeview channels except the ones on freqId 11 in
>>>> mythweb (whatever freqId 11 is).  So I'm thinking you're right, we
>>>> might be lucky at the moment to get anything.  Our postcode is CM5.
>>>>
>>>> I'll still check tonight to see if the TV gets C5 when plugged
>>>> directly into the aerial.
>>>
>>> Looking at http://www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tvd.exe for CM5 shows that CP is
>>> the closest transmitter to you by about 10 miles. If you're currently using
>>> Sandy Heath and decide to change, you may have to get a new aerial as CP is
>>> in group A and SH is group E (of course if you've got a wideband one it won't
>>> matter).
>>>
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