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Wednesday, 12 September 2012
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jb388:33 PM
Chris: Well there are only really two positions to try, these being 71 degrees with the aerial horizontally mounted for Stockland Hill @ 20 miles, or 280 degrees with the aerial mounted vertically for Exeter St Thomas @ 1.8 miles, this latter station being a Freeview PSB only relay.
Although the meter you refer to does serve a purpose I find it somewhat difficult to recommend their use, as the most important aspect of a digital signal, namely quality, does not always run in parallel with the indications of strength on the meter, and its much better to approximate the position of the aerial and then go into the TV's tuning menu / manual tune and enter the BBC mux channel number of the station you have pointed the aerial towards but do "not" scan it , as on most equipment as soon as the channel number is entered the strength / quality of the channel number entered will (or should) be immediately indicated.
If it appears to be OK then you could carry out an auto-tune, but if it appears to be on the low side or alternatively the quality is observed to be fluctuating, then inconvenient as it may well be but its best policy to go back to the loft and try swinging the aerial around a few degrees to either the right or left checking after each action, as you will soon know where the best position is.
By the way, Stockland Hills BBC mux is Ch26, and Exeter St Thomas's BBC mux being Ch44.
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William 9:00 PM
Can anyone tell me why my main aerial FEED is zapping my satellite signal when I try to connect it to the aerial in port on my HD box the reason for having to do this along with a cable from the RF2 port is to get freeview/digital channels and analogue/sky channels to my bedroom TV
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jb389:26 PM
William : If what you are meaning is that as soon as you connect the normal aerial into the Sky boxes aerial input for purposes of passing the Freeview signal through the box its killing the analogue signal sent out by the Sky box, then its likely that the RF output channel used on the Sky box is the same as a powerful digital channel from the Freeview transmitter that covers your area.
You will have to go into the Sky boxes installation menu and change the RF output channel used, unfortunately I am unable to advise on which ones to avoid as you have not given your location, a post code or one from nearby is suffice as this will enable your Freeview channels to be assessed.
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jb389:43 PM
William : It goes without saying that you will of course have to rescan (in analogue) your remotely positioned TV to pick up the new RF channel used by the Sky box.
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William 10:06 PM
I have 2 sky inputs to "dish 1 input" and "dish 2 input" from wall plate to HD box and a HDMI cable to my LIVINGROOM TV this all works perfectly for viewing sky HD in my LIVINGROOM.
But when I take a flying lead from my main aerial socket on the wall marked "TV" and touch it against either cables marked DISH INPUT 1 , DISH INPUT 2 , AERIAL IN , OR RF2 it cuts my sky signal only when I touch my normal aerial cable against RF1 on my box the sky signal stays.
So forgetting about my normal aerial for a second if I take a cable from RF2 on my sky box to my bedroom TV I can watch sky on analogue channel 68 which is fine but i get no freeview/digital which is obvious as my main aerial isn't connected but when I try to introduce my main aerial cable via the "aerial IN" my sky signal goes I can get either freeview/digital to my bedroom via the return port on my LIVINGROOM wall plate with a flying lead from TV port or analogue only from RF2 but not both in my bedroom and can't get my magic eye to work either in my bedroom because of this
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jb3811:26 PM
William : What you are reporting suggests that you have a voltage leaking from somewhere that shouldn't, as you do appear to be using the correct connections for what you are doing, but though when you say that the signal vanishes when you touch the main aerial against Dish 1 or 2 inputs are you meaning against the "side" of the "F" connectors or sockets? as if you mean the centre then it will short the boxes power supply.
By the way Ch68 (the default channel) is OK for your area as none of the transmitters use it, but the other thing I wondered about was as you use a magic eye on the Sky boxes RF2 output does its light go out when you touch the main aerial onto the Sky boxes "aerial in" socket?
Another question being, do you have exclusive use of the dish and normal aerial? just asking in case its a communal distribution system.
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Thursday, 13 September 2012
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William 6:57 AM
The both are communal dish distribution systems and I can't get access to them when I touch my
Main aerial cable when it's plugged into Tv at the wall ( which is from my communal aerial ) against just the side metal work of both dish input cables ( when connected ) its cuts the signal .
Suspecting that it may be a faulty box but its only 2 months old I tried to cut out the cabling through the box altogether so I put a cable from my main aerial along with a cable from RF2 in a splitter into the return port to send both to my bedroom without going through the box this gives me freeview/digital "AND" analogue to my bedroom Tv and my sky signal remains and I can use it as normal record , pause playback etc but my analogue reception in bedroom this time is really bad very snowy/fuzzy
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William 7:11 AM
The magic eye light doesn't go on at all in the bedroom
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janette9:36 AM
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Hi i can recieve itv and channel 5 on the tv in the bedroom but not on my tv down stairs they are run off 2 different arials in the loft .... if i take the tv upstairs i get the channels can anyone tell me if this is something to do with the ariel or the switch over?? im in newcastle upon tyne.
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