Missing BBC Channels on Free to Air box

Hi,

I've been trying for the last 3 weekends to get this sorted.

I have added all the transponders noted in the lyngsat list and have done auto and manual scan. I can get all the ITV/Ch4 etc type channels but nothing for BBC. I get 57 channels and 1 radio in auto scan. This should be at least 2-3 times this afaik.

Disconnected the dish lead to tv and did scan to clear list and then retune. Same result.

LG webos tv lh590v hd tv - about 5-6 years old. Is this my issue, as in do I need an external set-top box?

Have scanned this TV many times before and it usually is a 5 minute job. My head is wrecked. 😭

Any help really welcome.

Do you happen to have Sky Q service as that uses a different Lnb and will get reduced channels.

Are you doing a full automatic scan of the sat , what box are you using and what signal and quality are you getting.

On my Enigma 2 box it is in the 90+

Can you borrow a sat box from anybody and can you reach dish easily? Is it in good nick, any trees!!

Are you checking the Hd channels on the tv as many channels are moving from sd to hd

but in fairness i did get them all from astra 1, try it

Don't know what I did with my FTA box but I've lost all the BBC,itv channels. I've done auto search, manual search etc to no avail. Any simple steps to get them back?

So what satellite do I choose eg Astra 1Kr, Astra 3B?

Sorry, I know it's me but the only satellites coming up are ASTRA 1KR, ASTRA 3B, TELSTAR 12, Intersat 907.

Right now the only satellite channel getting are CHANNEL 4, ITV.

So it sounds like you have deleted the Astra 2 entry. Just pick one satellite name and do a Blind scan or a Network scan on that.

Its still nothing short of a pain but Chansort allows you to download your tuned channels and then renumber them on a PC. Once you have them in the order you want you can upload the sorted list. Additional pain is redoing every time there are channel frequency changes. But it works for me. Takes a bit of getting used to the interface so save incrementally as you go along.

I never bother with half the features. Just suck the data out of the TV dump it into chansort (unpopulated) and then laboriously go through a list of channels online (I use a Freesat list) and reset my differently numbered channels accordingly.

Do a channel search on your TV so you have a massive list of channels all with different numbers. I start with that import it into channel sort and then move the channels around so they are in an order that suits me iirc last time I used a Freesat list like this https://freesat.ie/pages/channel-list and renumbered the channels starting at 101 for BBC1 and using below 100 for anything non standard I found (+ channels - plus one hour). You'll have a load of BBC 1 regional channels you don't need and have to pick one you like. Where you put the rest is up to you.

Its frustrating and you will probably mess it up the first time and miss/forget something and there is some trick I have in my mind that you need to learn to get it to reorder correctly. iirc you need to start a fresh import and enable channel swap on the menu so if you are renaming a BBC 1 channel from say channel no 345 to 101 then whats already at 101 moves to 345. Otherwise you end up all over the place. What ever is left over you can hid if you want to.

You just highlight the channel number and type whatever you want. Then the number you type becomes that channel number and the channel previously with that number gets the number of the channel you just renumbered. Or at least thats the twisted way I use it ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdZ0IDwxBU0

Sorry I missed this thread,it would have maybe saved overlapping and repeating stuff.

The BBC freq changes also and Sky's response effectively Killed some SKy+HD boxes,and LNBs, as discussed here.

I did find it possible to get round this and keep Sky+ HD box going but it's been a torturous route and filled with many folk morphing into many other apparent faults,real and imagined..It did lead me to dig out my old FTA box which may be the best way forward without having to sign up for 18 months to get a "Free" Sky Q box and lnb.

The Sky+HD problems are maybe best left on the other thread as FTA can be considered a different path.

Worth noteing that the on screen display of No signal may have resulted in some paying for a Sky "Engineers " costly visit when it could be argued there actually is a sig, just one the box isn't seeing,the switch down to Sky.

Similar ploy perhaps as discuss on a thread when they moved CNN to the edge of frequencies resulting in loss of sig if dish alignment slightly off,but still a signal present on other channels. When Sky was called they insisted an engineering visit was required if display indicated no sig. As long as money can be made, the public may have to put up with all this.

Apart from the sensible folk in these parts who go straight to FTA.Thanks.

There's a thread on the top of the front page that lists all the frequencies.

BBC Two HD England 10847 V 23000 3/4 DVB-S2 8PSK

BBC Two HD Wales 10818 V 23000 3/4 DVB-S2 8PSK

BBC Two HD NI 10773 H 23000 3/4 DVB-S2 8PSK

BBC Two SD 10803 H 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK

Please note: BBC have not made any changes since last March. The next planned change is the ending of SD services in March 2024

The BBCs changed in early March this year to allow for HD regional variations. I dont think ITV made any frequency changes this year. The last change to ITV was when ITV2, 3 and 4 HD went FTA last November.

If you are missing a lot of channels it could be water in the coax, the dish has moved or something (tree or shrub) blocking the dish's view of the sky.

This lists all the free channels a working dish can receive. https://en.kingofsat.net/tv.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear

You may have bought or been sold the wrong LNB. Modern ones are for Sky Q,and as discussed will not work with old sky+HD boxes,but there is a fix,as discussed also on the other thread.

Even a cheap satellite meter will help a lot in re-aligning a dish. Much, much more difficult to do so without a meter.