All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Geoff Smith: Look on the net for how to use Freesat - some TV's will have a tuner built in, but in most cases you'll need a seperate box.
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Brian Lark: Do you have a TV with an HD tuner, and do you have a transmitter that supplies that channel?
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Jan: Steve's right, but its pretty clear whats likely going on - search for 'too much of a good thing' on this website.
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Susan Kinsey: An aerial is an aerial - as long as it works, then its fine. Probably not going to get that many channels, looking at the terrain, but Ludlow is just 2km away.
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Charles: look at your location - your just 25km from the transmitter, with just a very small obstruction in the way very close to you. You should have a great signal.
If your signal strength is very low, then it sounds like there is something wrong with your system, which makes sense when you say that you lose signal when its wet. Sounds like a lose connection and water getting in.
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Dennis Mills: Are you sure the two TV's are fed from seperate aerials? As Steven has pointed out, there doesn't seem to be any issues with the transmitter (you can ask neighbours is they have a problem), so that leaves your system.
As the famous Sherlock Holmes quote puts it:
'How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?'
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John Cone: You havn't given us a postcode, but logically your PVR is tuning into a Light transmitter. If you look at the Sunbury page, it will tell you the channels you need to find. But the other thing you can do, if the Light Transmitter channels get found by the PVR first, is to not connect the aerial for the first third of the scan, and then plug it back in.
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Peter: If it doesn't say so at the top of the page, it isn't. So that leaves your system.
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Saturday 4 February 2017 6:46PM
Susan Aldersley: What do you actually mean by 'a lot of interference on the picture and sound'? To be fair to the installer, your old aerial might well have had a problem, but it might not be the same as your current problem.
If you mean the picture kept breaking up, then thats generally because the signal is either too poor, or its too good. So you need to check on BBC1, on C4, etc for signal strength and quality.
Assuming that he put in decent cabling, etc, and that everything works OK, its probably not a poor signal. But since your just 24km from Winter Hill, it might well be too high a signal. I'm twice that distance from my transmitter, and I have to smother the signal strength a bit so that I dont have a problem.
Check the signal strength, and if its 80% plus, then search for 'too much of a good thing' on this website, which will tell you how to cope with it.