Interferance

Mossy Monk

where i live i can get BBC1 Wales on channel 69 from one transmitter and Channel 4 also on channel 69 from another transmitter. as you can imagine the interferance is a real pain. BBC1 is barely watchable some of the time. is there anyway of blocking out Channel 4 as i get that on channel 22 anyway. i want BBC1 Wales because of it's Nicam sound and no press red icons, something i don't get off BBC1 Northern Ireland which comes from a digibox

spuddy

dont' know what to do about your interferance i'm afraid, but don't you get stereo output for bbc1ni from your digibox anyway?

Richard

Originally posted by spuddy
dont' know what to do about your interferance i'm afraid, but don't you get stereo output for bbc1ni from your digibox anyway?

I presume he is receiving a digibox-sourced version of BBC ONE NI from a "deflector"

watty

If you feed RF around the house "off air" has Nicam Stereo, but no DVD, VHS on playback or tuned channel on any Digital Cable, Digital MMDS or Digital Satellite can do stereo on the RF, only on the SCART or RCA L&R connectors.

No-one puts a Nicam CODER in their domestic RF modulators.

Try different aerials and move them not for strongest signal but for least interference (not same thing)

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Richard
I presume he is receiving a digibox-sourced version of BBC ONE NI from a "deflector"

that's correct. i receive BBC1 NI in all it's glory on Sky but i want a decent BBC1 for all the other televisions in the house. i'll have to play around with the aerials again

spuddy

Originally posted by Richard
I presume he is receiving a digibox-sourced version of BBC ONE NI from a "deflector"

i didn't realise they were using digiboxes on deflectors! suppose it makes perfect sense.

i remember being at the gf's house in wexford last summer and seeing bbc1's 'press red' on the news on chorus & laughing at it (she didn't quite get the joke) she said it came up from time to time. just wondered how often chorus resort to doing this?

watty

You can fit an automatic thingy to press "backup" periodically to keep the red dot away.

UK gold2 and some others if you press Red and quickly press backup then the dot stays away till you channel change.

Richard

Originally posted by watty
You can fit an automatic thingy to press "backup" periodically to keep the red dot away.

UK gold2 and some others if you press Red and quickly press backup then the dot stays away till you channel change.

Also if you have the channel tuned in via "Other Channels", you don't get the red dot.

Mike 1972

Actually it probably makes sense for cable operators to use digiboxes if their off air source is crap. Ture it does mean losing teletext and NICAM (unless they go to the bother of reencoding)

Apparently the BBC relay on the channel Islands switches over to a digibox feed during high pressure (when the link from the mainland is suffering from interference)