All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Steve: Many thanks for the update! and pleased to hear you have sussed out the problem insomuch that your recent purchase was defective, that always being the danger when purchasing second hand Sky boxes as lots of them suffer from defective power unit problems.
Regards / jb.
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ELEANOR: The BBC is generally the one thats always picked up but not always some of the others, however its not possible to determine what type of reception you should be having and from where without knowledge of your location, a post code or one from nearby eg: a shop being suffice, as the details you entered have an error of some sort and do not give access to the reception predictor.
Please also mention the model of Bush box you are referring to.
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Martin B: You can use the lead from the Sky dish for your TV's Freesat facility without having to alter anything as Freesat and Sky are completely compatible with each other in this respect, however if you want to use Freeview as well then you will require a normal aerial connection for this.
As far as quality is concerned there is very little difference in quality between any of them, and any differences that do occur are usually down to quality variations in the particular programme being transmitted.
By the way if two leads have been supplied from the dish for either Sky+ or a Freesat PVR (recorder) then you can use any one of the leads as they are independent of each other, but if you are thinking on the latter then you would require an additional lead to be run from the dish, one for Freesat (on the TV) and the other two for a Freesat PVR.
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Martin B: Also meant to say that you do not require a Sky box, as Sky's free to view programmes are very similar, and in most cases, the same as the ones seen on Freesat, and with only a few exceptions existing.
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Robin: Unfortunately not! as the only way around the problem is to purchase a Freeview HD box and couple it into your TV using an HDMI lead, this in effect turning your TV into a monitor.
As far as the HD channels are concerned, at the present time they are just HD versions of the standard programmes and as such not different in programme content.
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Daisy: If your TV only has external input facilities in the form of A/V sockets (the coloured ones) then the only way to get it to work with the Virgin box is by using either the type of cable suggested to you by whoever, or alternatively using a normal scart lead into an adaptor plugged into the Virgin boxes scart socket, both of these items available in places such as Poundland.
The HDMI lead is only required for HD operation, and something which obviously will not apply with your old TV and as such just left out of the equation.
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Rob Shepter: Should you be the person residing in the CO1 area and originally using a Philips DTR210 then, and as mentioned by Heinz, you "might" be receiving an excessively high signal level by being located about 10 miles or so from Sudbury, especially with the type of aerial set up you are using, which I must say does seem rather excessive at this sort of distance from a 100Kw transmitter.
The other point is, that although the terrain predictor does not indicate any obstructions in the signal path between the transmitter and you, this type of indicator cannot really be classed as being highly accurate by only showing ground levels and nothing else, so in real life is there any obstructions that you might be aware of?
Regarding the 75% strength indication that you have mentioned, what happens to this level if you switch off the mast head amplifier "whilst observing" this indication? although ideally I would have been more interested in what the indication would be if the amplifier had been by-passed, but if of a mast head type then that's obviously not possible.
And with reference to the mast head amplifier, if when its switched off you can still see a signal level being indicated, which with a strong signal you should do albeit that the picture may have vanished, then go into the tuning menu / manual tune and enter Ch58 or Ch60 and check if any level is being shown, no need to scan.
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Simon J Bolton: Well, although fault symptoms such as you have described can in many cases indicate an intermittent connection fault on the aerial where the coax is joined into it, however when this coupled to the peculiar noise you hear on power up and something which is most likely coming from high frequency transformer in the power supply and usually when some partial short circuit is overloading it, then this does indicate that your set is defective.
If you only purchased it in May then obviously its still well inside the statutory guarantee period, and therefore I would not hesitate about returning it to wherever it was purchased and mentioning what you have in your posting regarding the noise, I would "not" advise mentioning anything about bad reception as that will immediately trigger suspicion about your installation being at fault.
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Martin B: If the lead from the dish is not long enough to reach your Freesat TV then you should make up an extension using a length of satellite grade coax and screw an "F" connector onto each end taking care that you dont catch a strand of the braiding on the middle core of the cable, then couple one end into your TV and link the other end onto the feed (any of two) from the dish with the aid of a female "F" back to back coupler.
New flat screen TV's always take a while to get used to, as unlike old CRT sets there are a multitude of individual adjustments that can be made to the picture, and to anyone fussy about quality this can be a nightmare even to get a happy medium, as unlike CRT sets flat screen sets arent very good at ironing out differences in quality between programmes.
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Tuesday 9 October 2012 11:23PM
Richard: That was an issue from last year (June 2011) concerning the change to DVB-S2 operation and not applicable to the problem you are presently experiencing "if" the box was previously working OK.
Although you should not really require to do anything other than that suggested, and although I cant guarantee that this will work by the fact of not having a Sky HD box kicking around at this present time to try it out myself, but you should try entering these latest parameters into your Sky HD boxes "other channels" facility and check to see if that then enables the box to pick up BBC HD. (These figures will possibly provide more info than the Sky menu allows for)
Parameter changes from 27th September 2012.
Astra 1N (28.2° East)
Transponder 50
Frequency: 10.84700 GHz
Vertical polarisation
Modulation: DVB-S2, 8PSK
Symbol rate: 23.0 Mbaud
FEC 2/3
Transport Stream ID: 2050
Channel SID
BBC HD: 6940
BBC One HD: 6941