All posts by jb38
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J purkis: Not really!! although I am aware that it might seem to be that way on occasions but I don't have any connection with Briantist, and I am simply an engineer of many years standing passing on my knowledge to others in the hope that it might assist whoever with a problem they may have.
But as far as Briantist is concerned, considering the massive amount of work that must be involved keeping the sight up to date with all the changes that have, and still are, taking place, I am amazed that Briantist would get any spare time to do anything.
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Maurice Hayward: Thanks for the clarification on that issue, however it still suggests to me that the Sony's tuner is defective as although 47 might well be indicated that's only as far as the mux transmitters EPG list of the programme channel numbers contained on it is concerned, and not that the tuner has picked up the programme data associated with the number, which of course it hasn't!
Knowledge of the Sony model involved would have been of assistance, and although I appreciate that you have previously mentioned that you updated both devices that can be open to interpretation, and so have you tried carrying out a complete "as out of the box factory reset" on the device before having auto-tuned? as sometimes that can help rectify any glitches that may have occurred during the initial set up procedures.
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Barb: Provided that when you were screwing the "F" connector plugs on to the coax you haven't accidentally caught a strand of the braiding, as it will wrap itself around the inner core if you have causing a short circuit, then the most likely cause of your problem is that you have aligned the dish up to the wrong satellite, as although 19.2 and 28.2 seem to be quite a distance away from each other in reality they aren't "if" you were using one of these low cost (about £10/15) satellite meters to align the dish, as although they can be used quite successfully they really do require slow motion when making adjustments to the dish, and especially so in the horizontal plane to distinguish between 19.2 & 28.2.
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Louise: Pick TV is still on EPG 11, I therefore suggest that you carry out retune on your TV as it may have missed picking it up if the signal was down when the last scan was carried out.
By the way Dave (19) and Sky news (82) are both on the same mux transmitter as Pick TV, and if your TV did miss that channel on a previous scan then the two others mentioned 19 & 82 will not be there either.
Also, indications are that you can be receiving Freeview from either Crystal Palace or Sandy, and Pick TV is on both.
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J purkis: Re: posting made earlier, apologies for sight (in visual sense) mistakenly typed in when referring to web site, only just noticed it!
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dennis: Smart TV's of the type that also have wi-fi facilities (as many dont!) are to your wireless router just like another laptop communicating with it, as there is nothing different about the signal.
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Maurice Hayward: Thanks for taking the time to give an update regarding your Sony's problem, and I am pleased to hear that the situation has at last been rectified as there wasn't really any other options left.
Cheers / jb.
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STEPHEN LEE: Yes, on the assumption that you have a dish installed and that you are referring to Sky's "free to view" channels.
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Scott: If swapping the connections port on the amp made no difference then did you try swapping the magic eyes over? or if this makes no difference either purely for a test temporarily using the Sky boxes RF1 output and by-passing the magic eye altogether.
By the way, the reason for using the Sky boxes RF1 for the test is just in case your TV's aerial input circuit short circuits the 9 volts that's used by the magic eye, the eye obviously not isolating the TV when removed for the test.
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Sunday 26 August 2012 7:26AM
john hunt: The device you have behind your TV is a power supply unit, this meaning that one of the other devices you referred to must be an aerial amplifier, and if you have two aerials then the second device is suggestive of being a diplexer for purposes of matching / combining the feeds from the two aerials into one and then to the input of the aerial amplifier.