All posts by Simon E
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@Mike Dimmick - thank you so much for your helpful advice. I got out the soldering iron and turned the amplifying splitter into a passive one. Now all three tv's and digi-boxes / recorders are working fine - no stuttering or blocks. The only exception is the Thomson DHD-4000 which has lost a few channels. However, from reading online, this machine appears to be not fully compatible with the switch-over. Overall, great result. Thanks!
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Sunday 8 May 2011 8:16PM
Gloucester
Hello and thanks in advance for any assistance.
My postcode is GL3 1NX. Previous to the recent digital switch over we had a rooftop aerial and a Philex 4 Way TV Aerial Booster in the loft. This provided Freeview digital tv to: two rooms with built-in Freeview tv and pvr, one room with a tv and digibox, and one room with an anologue tv (now obviously redundant. We lost a few channels and got 'blocky' interference, but after a heavy thunderstorm in the last few days many channels have gone and the picture quality is terrible. I have checked the aerial which is still intact and pointing to Ridge Hill as before. Oddly when I removed the booster (which appears to be operating - power light on) the connected the nearest TV directly to the roof aerial, the channel scan picked up everything. My question is, can the recent change in digital transmissions have made the booster redundant? Given my distance from the transmitter, can I split the signal through a passive 3-way splitter?
Many thanks