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freeair · 31-08-2009, 19:53

I recently purchased a DVB-T USB stick for use on my Windows XP SP3 PC and I am having a problem tuning all Freeview channels.

The stick is fed from an external aerial which I am told is suitable to receive digital transmissions from the Winter hill transmitter. I do not know what group the aerial is.

When I scan through all frequencies (177.5 to 858 MHz) it detects only BBC1, BBC2, BBC News and CBBC (CH 1 -4)

However if I scan the 8M band I get a lot more channels but the BBC channels mentioned above are not shown.

The software with this stick allows me to create a favourites list but it will only show either the 4 BBC channels or all the 8M band channels, I cannot combine the 4 BBC channels into the favourites list.
This means if i want to watch one of the BBC channels I have to scan again to create a new channels list.

Is there a way to have the 4 BBC channels included in the other list?

Thanks for any help.

PS If it is any help the stick uses an EC168BDA driver

31-08-2009, 19:53	#1
freeair Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Stockport Posts: 114	DVB-T USB stick tuning problem I recently purchased a DVB-T USB stick for use on my Windows XP SP3 PC and I am having a problem tuning all Freeview channels. The stick is fed from an external aerial which I am told is suitable to receive digital transmissions from the Winter hill transmitter. I do not know what group the aerial is. When I scan through all frequencies (177.5 to 858 MHz) it detects only BBC1, BBC2, BBC News and CBBC (CH 1 -4) However if I scan the 8M band I get a lot more channels but the BBC channels mentioned above are not shown. The software with this stick allows me to create a favourites list but it will only show either the 4 BBC channels or all the 8M band channels, I cannot combine the 4 BBC channels into the favourites list. This means if i want to watch one of the BBC channels I have to scan again to create a new channels list. Is there a way to have the 4 BBC channels included in the other list? Thanks for any help. PS If it is any help the stick uses an EC168BDA driver