damian - 7 hours ago »
grahamlthompson - 4 hours ago How can you be receiving from multiple transmitters without channel numbers in the 800's, where did it put the duplicates ?
Simple,
you manually tune and pick and choose, dead easy, no duplicates in the 800's. i.e. it doesn't need to put duplicates anywhere because there aren't any.
Relays aren't the problem as you well know as they repeat the same EPG and simply relay. no one is asking for a database of relay stations, not too sure where you got this from.
As previously stated the sagecom from over 10 years ago knew which transmitters I was tuned into. As you may or may not be aware a big problem is the EPG coming from different areas on a box tuned to multiple transmitters. Yes I can look at neighbours aerials if I go down the road, round the bend up the lane and remember which orientation I was and quite often you'll see two aerials pointing in wildly different directions and obviously can't see those in attics, and yes I can google earth and google search and print out multiple transmitter information and correlate that by tuning to a channel and checking signal on the box and seeing if the UHF channel matches for every single mux. All of this is possible and none of it easy. None of this is a problem for those living within a main transmitter area.
Life would be so much simpler though if the box shared a little bit more of the useful information it already has, which I believe was the start of this point.
Back to the original post...
HumaxUKNW, no one's asking you to kill your box; however gdavidson's post is really interesting, you could try deleting one of the really useless channels (there are plenty of them) and see if this triggers a schedule repopulation. I'm sure Captgeneralmark's method will also work
The comment was re the quote that said auto tuning to multiple transmitters does not always give you channels in the 800's. By the way auto tuning works it always will.
You can only delete channels in the 800's , if the transmitter you want happens to have it's highest UHF carrier at a lower number than the lowest one used one a duplicate transmitter. If this isn't true then some or all of the channels you want will be in the 800's. Channels are added by starting at channel 61 and working up to 68. The first carrier found gets the correct lcn, the next goes to 800 upwards. That's why you have to delete all your auto tuned channels and manually tune. (Which only takes a few minutes anyway).
Since by far the most common source of multiple channels is from relays and you suggested you wanted the Mux identifying, both ocurrences of the same MUx will have the same name and the same transmitter, which is not going to be any help at all. The only information that will help is the UHF carrier channel number, which the box will already give you.
Living within a main transmitter area is not the issue. I live within the main transmitter area of Sutton Coldfield. I can tune Sutton Coldfield, Bromsgrove and Lark Stoke SFN, The Wrekin and the Redditch relay. Due to trees behind my house the much weaker Lark Stoke transmitter is by far my best one.
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In my partners case, there are two transmitters and a relay and even though she's a local lass she wouldn't know or find it easy. Lack of channels >800 doesn't automatically mean there aren't multiple transmitters tuned on the box either.
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It does automatically mean that you have multiple transmitters.
Solution is look up your possible transmitters the best will be top of the list.
http://griffin.dtg.org.uk/work/coverage.html
Note the mux that the most likely transmitter uses for PSB1, go into mamual tune and check the reception for that mux. If it's OK delete all your channels and manually tune to the list of channels indicated. If not try the next one till you find the best reception for PSB1
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