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On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 20:24 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > James Fidell wrote: > > Rob Beard wrote: > > > >> I'd have thought that with my card but all our freeview receivers and > >> our telly pick everything up fine. However the card did work fine in > >> Exeter on Stockland Hill. Might possibly be to do with a poor signal > >> in our area possibly. I'm going to invest in a couple of new DVB-T > >> USB sticks anyway. > > > > IME set top boxes are far more tolerant of low quality signals than PC > > cards. Before we replaced the aerial here I couldn't see anything at > > all with my Hauppauge TD500 cards, despite an STB being able to pick up > > a fair range of channels. > > > > James > > > That's what I thought, hence buying a couple of new USB sticks. > > Rob I am within 500 yards of the Transmitter, with 99% sn ratio and 99% sig strength but still cant get BBC channels on DVB-t card All the house free view box's get those channels fine. I wonder if it's the initial scan file thats at fault. mine gives these transponders scanning /home/kevin/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine/dvb-t/uk-CaradonHill300909 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' initial transponder 474167000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 666000000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 714000000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 786166670 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 730000000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 762166670 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 642000000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 497833000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 506167000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 521833000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 745833000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 730000000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 642000000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 666000000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 714000000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 then tunes out the Mux channels for each one ie; >>> tune to: 474167000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE I will ask the Caradon Hill Engineer where BBC should be in the List. > > Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved repressed(possibly!Definitely!) Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html