Freeview Channels

[ThePost]

I have just purchased a Freeview TV for the first time. I carried out all the necessary procedures to set it up - quite successfully I thought for a technophobe!

However, I live in the "East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire" reception area for BBC1 but it has tuned into the "East Midlands" which I do not want (especially for News and Weather).

I cannot find any way to change it. It does not seem to offer any options or alternatives.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Frank97]

Try doing a manual tune for BBC, you'll probably find the one you want is on a different frequency. I have to do that with one of mine, as left to its own devices it tunes to the Welsh channels rather than the south west ones.

[ThePost]

Thanks D97x7.

How do I find the wavelength/channel that I want? Are all the BBC regions on different channels? Living in Lincolnshire could I even get BBC1 Wales (I used to live there and occasionally find their programmes interesting)?

As I said - I'm a technophobe so please keep it simple!

[Frank97]

I don't know which one you will actually want as I'm not in your area, so you'll have to search through, unless someone else can suggest which one it is.
Not sure if you could get Wales up there, I only get it because I'm on the Somerset coast, so nearer the Welsh transmitter than the SW one.

[Old_Geezer]

Limited help I know, but a few years back I found various sites on the web that would detail the channels/wavelengths in a specified area. Maybe a web search would quickly find you this info ?

[pinkyboyid]

Maybe this where there is some info posted here:

http://www.ukfree.tv/txdetail.php?a=TF218836

and where the frequency is located / indicated as 'as a digital multiplex transmitted on frequency'

[ThePost]

Thanks evertone!

Haven't achieved it yet but still working on it. Why is nothing ever easy?

[knittynora]

My parents had a similar problem. They live in Chester so auto-tune picked up BBC Wales. The frequency for BBC northwest was at the opposite end of the range so we started auto-tune without the aerial in, then about halfway through plugged it in. This way we got the channels we wanted. Guesswork I know, but it did work after a trial-run. Don't know whether this will work for you.