All posts by Stephen Phillips
Below are all of Stephen Phillips's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Angela
When you say "lost them" do you mean that you are no longer offered them to select, or that you can select them but get no signal?
If the former, ? box/tuner bust - do others get the same?
If the latter, do the signals ever come back? And if you retune when they are absent, do you get them?
Note that Digital TV reception is effectively a 2 stage process
1) Identify and store an available channel
2) Actually receive it.
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Hi Brian
I'm probably being thick, but where are the Regional maps?
Is there a site map anywhere showing the structure of the available pages? Though I have been here for ages I still get confused and often rsort ot "Search" to find sat a particular Tx's page.
Thanks for all the good work. Hope you make something out of it
Steve
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Good. Sounds like box got its knickers twisted.
They are, of course, little computers, and just like their big bretheren sometimes benefit from "powercycling". Which means actually unplugging them from the power supply, as "off" rarely really means "off".
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... http://unesdoc.unesco.org….pdf
As used in Burma in 1987!
Clearly IS an amp in its own right. Does it give any indication if it also powers up the coax?
In loft are there 4 "out" coax plugs and one IN? Any writing on the box that connects them?
Can you try connecting the in to one of the outs to see what that produces below? IIRC you are only using two of the four?
Age of the cables might be a fault- but not certain.
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- Kidderminster digital switchover date | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
PRice - looks like you are still analogue for Ch4 until 21 Sept.
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Maxbar - you are assuming by "Twisted together" he means 4 coax cores and 4 outers twisted together? Could be - I assumed just the cables but still each with its own plug.
He does not need power in the loft - we know his TV sends 5v up the coax.
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Mazbar - I took the tape to be holding the cables together - but your interpretation may well be correct.
As to the 12v/5v I bow to your expertise - but why would TV offer 5v if 12v needed?
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Tuesday 6 September 2011 11:32PM
bob p - If turning the 5v ON improves the signal it MUST be powering an amplifier somewhere - almost certainlty the splitter. Just having 5v DC will not improve the signal.
What you call the booster may not itself be a booster but just a power supply for the splitter. Or it could be both. Does it have any description, brand, model, etc.?
NB That you just need to try the upstairs Freeview box with the downstairs TV to start with; not move TVs.
Do you have access to the splitter? 4 way splitters usually would be powered.
Do you have access to the