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Saturday, 28 December 2013
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David A.2:03 PM
Installation of a digital TV distribution amp increased strength by 4%, but reduced quality (on 5 of the 6 MUXs) from a steady 100% to a variable (second by second) from 5% to 100%. The other MUX quality varies between 5% and 40%.
Ads for TV dist'n amps do not appear to mention the maintenance of incoming signal quality, at the outputs - why?
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David A.: The symptoms you describe, of the quality dipping, suggest that the signals could be being amplified too much. This is akin to turning up the volume on your hifi beyond that which it can reproduce the sound without distortion.
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Neil Bell3:39 PM
Dan/MikeB We may be at cross purposes here. Humax make both terrestrial (e.g. Freeview) and satellite receivers and as MikeB says there is no way you could receive UK terrestrial broadcasts in Slovakia. However it might be possible to receive UK satellite broadcasts with a big enough dish but you need to find out from someone who has succeeded just how big if indeed it is possible. Sending them the money to buy a local terrestrial receiver will enable them to receive Slovak TV but I didn't think that was the point of your question.
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Sean Cassidy7:07 PM
I live in a ground floor apartment, the building is less than a year old. There are 2 built-in tv aerial sockets, the main lounge, and the bedroom.
The main lounge works perfectly, the bedroom, however, does not. Or, that is to say, the picture keeps pixelating, and yes, the freeview box works when used in the other socket.
Any ideas?
Greatly appreciated.
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jb389:04 PM
Sean Cassidy: Well, that could suggest that the main feed from the aerial is connected into the lounge socket and is then being fed from that point into the bedroom, but though with a signal loss in the process, therefore you should unscrew the lounge socket and have a check at the wiring behind it, if it looks OK then unscrew the bedroom socket likewise checking it.
You should also carry out a signal level check on the box connected into the lounge socket, not only checking the strength but also if the quality of the signal is seen to fluctuate to any great degree, because your problem could also be due to the signal level received from wherever being a bit on the weak side whereby the extension into the bedroom is further reducing it to a critical level.
A post code would have been of assistance as this would enable details of the transmitter covering your area to be checked out.
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Sean Cassidy10:19 PM
Stockton-on-tees
jb38:
Yeah, already checked out the wiring, jb38, it is sound and tight.
Postcode is TS18 5AR and as far as I can tell, transmitter coverage has never been an issue.
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Sunday, 29 December 2013
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jb3812:11 AM
Sean Cassidy: Now that your location is known then yes! the signal from Bilsdale at just under 16 miles / 149 degrees is indeed indicated as having a clear line-of-sight to your location.
However, although you have previously checked the points mentioned did you find that the lounge socket had more than one coax connected into it? the reason I ask being that the bedroom has to be fed from somewhere, and its this somewhere thats likely to be the source of your problem.
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jb389:51 AM
Sean Cassidy: In addition to that previously said, another possible reason for your problem could be due to interference being picked up in the coax feeding the bedroom socket, or alternatively that the cable run to the bedroom is not continuous and is joined in a less than satisfactory fashion at some point along the route, but problems of this nature really require investigation with the aid of a ohms meter on a low setting as its the only satisfactory way of verifying the continuity of a cable.
You should though still carry out the aforementioned signal test on both sockets for signal strength / quality comparison purposes between the two outlets, because if interference is being picked up in the bedroom feed then although the strength may remain virtually the same the quality will suffer from fluctuation, however if the strength and quality vaults up and down then that can indicate a bad joint.
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george wright11:19 AM
you stated in august that true ent was coming tofreeview i live at cf481dx and still no sign of it ,i have retuned several times please can you help?
thanks
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Bill Wardhaugh11:23 AM
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Thank you. Bill
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