All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
mark withers: something in your aerial system was dying, and has now gone belly up. Might be as simple as a fallen out aerial lead, but it sounds like something more series - broken cable perhaps.
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David: The clue is probably the 100% on good channels. We have no idea how close you are to the transmitter, but if your close with a amp, then you can overload the tuner - and too much signal looks much the same as none. Check your signal elvels, and then look up 'too much of a good thing' on this site
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Hilary: We have no idea where you are, but it sounds like the aerial system is duff. Check between where the TV's split off and the aerial.
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Vic: Its like you have a problem with your aerial - check signal strength. If your getting fewer and fewer channels, then something is wrong. Could be a fraying cable.
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Vic: Sounds odd, but you could have a mixture of two problems. If all your muxes are vanishing, then then that sounds like a failing system. If it comes and goes, could well be something like water in a cable - when it dries out, its fine, but its only going get worse over time.
On the other hand, 100% is far too high - see 'too much of a good thing' on this site. We dont know where you are, so cant say what sort of signal you should get, but look at the possibilities and narrow it down.
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G.Bradbury: Ask people close by if they are also having a problem, and check the transmitter info above. If they are OK, then its you. And something is duff somewhere - either a cable, a connection or possibly the electrics for any booster, etc.
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Paulj: The breakup is probably due to something at your end, not the transmitter. Check your signal levels - are they high or low? If they are very high (90 % plus), then your tuner is going to hate it, and since HD tends to react to problems more easily than SD, you'll get break up (see 'too much of a good thing' on this site). Or, its its too low, then you need to seek out why. Usual reason is a dodgy connection somewhere in your system.
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Warren Swaine: Check your signal levels. If your losing muxes, its usually due to a problem with your aerial system - a frayed cable, etc. Since we tend to not notice a problem until something vanishes, its possible that the other muxes are just hanging on, but since these muxes are less powerful, they go first.
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Warren Swaine: Well, you don't have a problem with signal strength!
Actually, they are a touch on the high side - 75% is pretty much perfect, although of course that would mean killing your signal a bit, and thus hitting Com 7.
Yeap, the lose aerial lead is a classic - at least one website reckons 50% of problems are caused by them. Its probably worth swapping the cable out anyway, just in case its dodgy - they are cheap enough, and as long as they are well shielded, you don't need anything fancy.
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Sunday 15 May 2016 11:25PM
Ian Taylor: Check they are both tuned to the same transmitter, and the signal levels. Tuners in different boxes can react slightly differently, but it would be unusual to be so different. Could be the signal is too high on the YouView box (its a Humax, so not impossible).