All posts by Stephen Phillips
Below are all of Stephen Phillips's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
KT - need to know your postcode to know what strength signal you have. Either post it here, or plug it in top right of this screen.
Do you have a good digital signal in the living room?
Using what as an aerial?
Neither size of TV nor how it is mounted makes any difference. Just signal strength where you are.
If living room uses a roof aerial, Ifdeally you would split the feed from that at the top and run down to kitchen. But mostly if you can run a coax from living room to kitchen that will do the job, with either an unpoweres splitter or a powered splitter/amp with 2+ outputs.
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Ron - have you tried a Sketchley loop?
I have a house in Herne Hill, S London - facing Crystal Palace. Some time ago a new tenant asked me where the aerial socket was. I had to think a bit before I realised that TVs worked there with nothing at all in the aerial input.
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Jonathon - can you find distinguishing characteristics between first and second scan channels? Modulation type perhaps?
I presume the pattern is repeatable.
IIRC your variable attenuator's case WAS the outer connector - apparently uninsulated. Which seems odd. Put it in a plastic box with channels cut for the wires?
Someone commented earlier about outer coax NOT being earthed. Which I suppose it is not these days when TVs no longer use 3 core flex with the neutral connected to a chassis.
Any expert comments? Are variable attenuators normally like that?
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mycloud - what sort of aerial are you using?
You have so strong a signal that might well be your problem. Try without an aerial, and if nothing, with just a bent wire in the coax socket (aka "Sketchley Loop")
Or a built-in or set top aerial. NON amplified.
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I think these days best practice is not to have socket plates at all; just to bring the coax through the wall direct into the set.
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Nicholas - I recall that some boxes use an EPG source that has stopped.
If you post here - or google - your box/TV Model you may see something.
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Alex - what happens when you use one of the other boxes on the particular aerial socket?
Can you get at the splitter? Try switching the connections and see if the problem moves, or is linked to the down wire.
Remove socket and check for dead beetles etc.
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Nicholas - you can unplug and replug the aerial lead during auto tuning to pick the channels you want.
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Friday 7 October 2011 6:43PM
Sean - sounds like the TV aerial (as distinct to the sat dish) is no plugged in to the new digibox; or perhaps that it does not forward that signal as the old one did.