All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
GeordieLad: ITV hub is via the net, and has zero to do with your aerial.
Almost certainly its because the LG isn't able to use the app, which isn't so surprising, since ITV's is a relative pain for all the companies. Assuming they are not going to supply a ITV app for that software, just get a Now TV box, etc that will.
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John: we have no idea what your signal should be like, since you've not supplied a postcode, but at a guess, your aerial system has a problem. Your TV's manual will say that your not getting any signal, and its either something simple like a loose connection, etc, or there is a bigger problem, and while that mux has gone, the others are just about holding on.
The other thing it could be is single source interference.
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John: PE16 isn't much use - thats a huge area, and 100% signal means what? 100% strength (in which case look at 'too much of a good thing' on this site), or 100% quality?
Check signal strength and signal path. If its interference, then whats caused it? It could be just a glitch, but if it happens again, then its the sympton of a problem that will probably reoccur.
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Bob Loader: See 'too much of a good thing' on this site - although 35km is a slightly long way to be able to see the transmitter, thats fairly close, and its possible your system is just getting overloaded - strength should be 75%, not 100 - thats just shouting at the tuner and deafening it.
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Ray Rogers: At just 38km from Belmont, you should be getting a very good signal, and if the transmitter is fine, and the aerial hasn't moved, that leaves the wiring in between. Your losing a mux, which is the classic sympton of an aerial system problem. Check back from the set - could be as simple as a loose connection.
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Roy Purssell: Check signal strength generally (a postcode is needed to check what you should be getting), and check if you can get any of the other channels on that mux. If you can't, that points to a problem with your aerial system.
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Bob Loader: Did you read the article? 10/10 is far too high - yes, it might be just about OK most of the time, but when the signal level pushes just beyond the limit, thats when you get breakup. If you have a booster, remove it, and some attenuators might be a good idea.
I suspect your neighbours have much the same problem.
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Graham Bastin: Check your signal strength - too high or too low/ If high, see 'tto much of a good thing', if too low, then check your system
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Greg: If the transmitter is fine, logically, what else could it be but your system?
Since it sounds like the TV's are being fed from one aerial, logically, the point at which the signal splits (or before) sounds like where the problem lies. Could be a loose connection, failed booster (do you actually need one?), etc. Your looking for around 75% signal strength - it might be you've still got some signal, its just too low to register.
There does seem to be loads of people at the moment who assume that the transmitter must be at fault, even though all evidence to the contrary. Your signal is fed by a cable which is just 6mm wide, can be put in by anyone, can be any age, and even if its inside, is still prone to the problems of decay, just like anything else. Add to that high winds, moisture, extremes of heat and cold, and just old age, and stuff fails.
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Friday 20 January 2017 9:25AM
Mardler : Talcneston serves about 330k homes - if just one percent of those households has a problem, thats over 3k households. And the area served is notorious for having a geography which can mask the signal from the main transmitter, hence the fair number of Lite transmitters.
You can look at the status of the various transmitters yourself - they seem to be fine. Yes, it could be high pressure, etc, but the most likely and logical conclusion is that its your own system. You've already said you have an unreliable wall socket, so why do you think that somehow one mux on a transmitter is fine, whilst the other one is rubbish? That makes no sense.