I looked out the kitchen french door window to find that part of my 13 element aerial is on the patio.... Going outside reveals that the dipole is swinging in the wind and that the reflectors is still attached to the pole. It looks like the dab aerials boom has broken into two at where the dipole...

On satellite on the channel name they've forgotten to leave a space between 'Scotland' and 'HD'! Is this the end of civilisation as we know it? Bill

Anyone else hearing a *very* quiet background hum in some segments of the Today programme? It's audible on DAB and Sounds and throbs at about 0.3Hz e.g. starts when Tom Stoppard's mic is faded up at 08:35 during the André Previn segment, annoying once you notice it ...

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE The introduction of new equipment and techniques into the BBC Television Service is a continuing process, unspectacular perhaps in many instances, but always aimed at providing an improved service to the public. The quality both of pictures and sound has been steadily...

My thanks to all who responded to my earlier posting regarding my inability to stream Aljazeera English on my LG Smart TV. I sent a report to Aljazeera describing the problem and quoting the message which appeared when I tried to connect. Till now no response. Last night, around midnight, I was...

No single at all and the neighbor has not either TV says its definitly the ariel Tnt says rats have eaten the wire Part of picture missing Box on wall smashed tnt says its Wear and Tare

Does fog affect reception ? It was foggy yesterday in Sussex and reception varied from poor to No Signal or picture is encrypted on all channels. We have even been told in the past that waves affect it. The block of flats we live in has a communal aerial. Derek

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:55:04 +0000, PeterC wrote: Getting weird: Call the Midwife no longer as a series, only record one episode at a time. Local news (Look East (West)) has always been 'record single programme' to get it - now it's only 'Record'. Next weekend seems to have three...

I started a new thread as I wanted to warn people that the stuff in some of these cans is not always safe. For many years I used a small can of some stuff made by tixo and it worked wonders. Then when Tandy closed it vanished so bought some servicol. It claimed to be safe on common plastics. ...

My mum reported an intriguing symptom: their PVR "couldn't get ITV". I established that the tuner in the TV could receive all 8 multiplexes (8 because it's a main transmitter - Oxford), and that the PVR could receive everything except PSB2 - a spot check on the channel list showed that the only...

Afternoon proggy - can't set series; BBC 1 for this Friday is mostly blank; 18:30 local news (Look East (West))) can't be set to record, only watch (South Today (Oxford)) is OK. Any idea what these extortionist are doing. Pay for a 'licence' and can't even get a decent service - to say nothing of...

Neighbour has been having tuning problems and man in a van has just put in a new aerial high gain 4g filtered pointing East to Waltham (same as me) instead of West to Nottingham. About 800m to the right and above us is a very full mobile mast. So the question is should I have a 4g filter and if...

I retuned my Humax box and at the end of the scanning process it gave me a choice of Region 1 - Scotland, Region 2 - Central Scotland. My initial assumption was that it had picked up two transmitters. Alternatively, could 'Scotland' mean BBC and 'Central Scotland' STV? Thanks for any guidance.

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There's a very wide range of knowledge across this group. Do you think that between us we hold the whole of human knowledge? Bill

Anyone having problems? They've told me they have a fault. Bill

On 18/02/2019 16:55, PeterC wrote: Call the Midwife no longer as a series, only record one episode at a time. Thanks for the tip. I had it set for series record and hadn't checked that it had found the next one in the series. When I did check, it hadn't reset itself to the next episode, so I...

The plot line of last Sunday’s Call The Madwife involved a Black mechanic fixing Nurse Crane’s car outside the front Of the convent. Whilst listening to reggae. It was about 24 hours later that it occurred to me that in 1964 you’d be lucky to get The Beatles on the BBC during the working...

I heard yesterday that it was an anniversary of the start of Ceefax yesterday, pitty its not still around. I suppose the internet has more or less surpassed all that page waiting. Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian...

My recordings of this week's two episodes of Great British Railway Journeys have had the sound way out of sync. Usually this can be "fixed" by stopping playback and starting it again, but not this time. I think sound was leading picture, but it can be quite difficult to tell sometimes, and the...