On Monday, May 18, 2009 7:14 PM [GMT+1=CET], Ron Jones <[email protected]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: > Dave Larrington wrote: >> On Friday, May 15, 2009 12:05 PM [GMT+1=CET], >>> I see it all now, soften me up with a trouble-free computer, only to >>> hit me later with problem TV---- >> >> Consider yourself lucky. The other day my Freeview wossname told me >> it had found some new channels and asked me whether I would like to >> install them. I told it "yes", it did a channel search, announced >> that it had found 19 channels and instead of adding them to the ones >> it already had, threw away the existing ones, leaving me with CBBC, >> BBC Parliament, the odd radio station and some shopping-for-tat >> nonsense. A rescan eventually persuaded to find some more, though >> none of ITV's or Channel 4's channels were on the list. >> >> Only after threatening it with spending the rest of its worthless >> existence five fathoms down in an Essex landfill did it relent and >> find the whole lot. > > The fact you said Essex leads me to suspect that you have the same > problem as M-I-L. The ITV multiplex tends to rather near the > analogue channel 5, so it's a bit weak so as not to interfere.
Essex is where the rubbish goes, but Larrington Towers has a line of sight to the Crystal Palace transmitter. The initial rescan was at about 07:00, the one which got halfway was at about 17:00 and normal service was resumed after dark, as DaveD noted elsewhere. I have turned off the automatic update facility. > Maybe > your aerial is moving in this high wind we are having. I hope not - the aerial is on a shelf directly above the telly (the loft aerial perished in a bizarre gardening accident :-)) -- Dave Larrington <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk> (You're fired - Ed).
