All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Josie Bailey: Try removing the aerial "before" carrying out and auto tune and check if the scan still freezes at 19% or possibly carries on to 100%, if it does complete a full scale scan then reconnect the aerial followed by carrying out a normal auto-tune.
If though its found that the situation has not changed, then carry out a "first time installation" as described on page 26 of your manual, should you still have it?
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Andrew: Its really a case of when you see "weak" or "no signal" being indicated what this represents in the actual signal strength and quality of the signal is concerned as this message can be triggered if either the S or Q is under a certain level rather than non existent, therefore you should carry out the undermentioned procedure as this will give a clue as to the cause of the problem as far as your satellite reception is concerned, as although you have said that the dish has not been moved "if" the quality of the signal is indeed seen to be lower than strength then one the two undermentioned possible reasons for just has to apply.
Signal checking procedure on Sky+ HD boxes. (some models)
Press "Services" on your Sky remote control and you will see the main menu
with "Options" being highlighted.
2:- Select the "Settings" menu using the right arrow button and press
select.
3:- Use the left / right arrows to scroll to "Signal" and press select, the
grey bars displayed will show you the strength of the signal being
received.
Should anything be indicated then the strength / quality levels of that
seen have to be around 50% minimum to produce a picture, this especially so
where the quality is concerned which should never be lower than the
strength, because if it is then this points to the dish being slightly out
of alignment, or alternatively that the signal to the dish is being obstructed.
On the subject of Freeview, its not really possible to make an assessment of the situation when no location has been given, this preferably in the form of a post code or one from nearby, e.g: a shop / post office etc.
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Josephine: If you are referring to a black Sky+ HD box then the card is hidden under a drop down flap located on the front lower right hand side of the box.
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Susan Castle: That just said by Robert Dallenger is quite correct, therefore you might have been better purchasing a Humax Freesat PVR (recorder) rather than a Freeview device, as the leads referred to that come from the dish are directly 100% compatible as far as using them on a Freesat box is concerned.
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Susan Castle : An example of that referred to can be seen by opening the link.
HumaxDirect
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yvonne schofield: Although indications are that the area you reside in is not the best for reception the problem you are experiencing could be caused by a fault in your aerial system, for example, such as a bad joint where the coax is terminated into the aerials connector box etc.
As far as your TV losing channels is concerned, I don't think its so much a case of it actually losing the channels but more that they are just dropping down now and again under the threshold level for reception and possibly caused by the suspected aerial problem referred to, therefore I would advise you to try and refrain from continually retuning the set as all you are really achieving is to wipe out everything already stored in the tuners memory.
However, its relatively easy to find out if this situation does apply or not by carrying out a couple of tests, one whilst the signal is OK and the other when it is not (appears to be missing) by using the following procedure.
Whilst the signal is OK go into the TV's set up screen / selecting "tuning menu" / "manual tuning" followed by entering C22 (Belmont's BBC1) into the box but NOT followed by pressing search or scan, as this procedure will allow you to monitor the strength and quality of the signal, make a note of the indications seen for reference purposes (later on) but also paying particular attention if the quality of the signal is seen to dive downwards now and again.
Now that you are armed with this signal strength info, the next time you get a "no signal" warning when BBC1 or 2 is selected then carry out the same test as before to determine if the signal has completely vanished (zero indications) or that it is actually still there but possibly sitting at a level much lower than before, hence why the TV is unable to resolve a picture.
Another point being, any time in the past that your BBC reception was found to have vanished did you make any checks with your neighbours to find out if they were also suffering from the same problem?
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M Booth: Provided that you have not made any alterations to the coax cabling from the original Sky boxes RF output socket, then the problem "might" possibly be caused by your I.O device being faulty as many of them were.
That said, many complaints were found to be caused by a problem that existed with the actual Sky box itself, insomuch that the power being fed from the box was not high enough to enable satisfactory operation of the I.O ports modulator, the effect of being far worse if the I.O port was feeding more than one additional TV or being used with a magic eye channel changing system.
However, you can test this out for yourself by connecting one of your secondary TV's "directly" into the I.O ports RF output socket, leaving same on its default setting of C68 and carrying out an auto-tune on the secondary TV whilst it set on "analogue" reception, if this results in a slight improvement in the noise level (speckles etc) seen on the secondary TV's picture then the problem is likely being caused by the voltage being fed from the box to the I.O port being lower than that required.
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M Booth: Thanks for your update on events and pleased to see that the problem has now been resolved, that said being inclined to indicate that your Sky+HD box / I.O port combination could well be of the variety mentioned, but with this known deficiency being up to an extent compensated for by the newly acquired upgraded powered splitter.
Of course on the other hand, "if" your original splitter was also of the powered variety then there is always the possibility that its internal power supply had failed, although it would have been a bit of a coincidence for this to have happened at the same time as your box was changed over.
However no matter which of the two applies, the main thing is that the system is now operating as normal.
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Mark Morris (withold): If you are meaning that you are unable to receive the new COM7 multiplex? and possibly COM8 when it starts transmission, then this is not caused by anything abnormal at the transmitter end of the equation but possibly because that the signal received from COM7 (Ch31) is under the level required for your TV (or box) to resolve a picture, as COM7 radiates on a power of 18.48Kw compared to the other three COMs on 50Kw, whereas PSB transmissions radiate on 100Kw. Should that initially said be applicable? then you should try a test by going into your TV's tuning menu selecting "manual tuning" then entering Bilsdale's C31 (554.00Mhz) into the box but NOT followed by selecting search or scan, because if anything is being received from mux C31 the level / quality of will appear on the indicator bars. By the way, purely for comparison purposes you could try the test mentioned on Bilsdale's six other mux channels, those being as follows / C26 (BBC) - C29 (ITV1) - C23 (HD service) - C43 (SDN / ITV3 etc) - C46 (Pick TV etc) - C40 (4 Music / ITV4 etc).
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Sunday 4 May 2014 2:14PM
Tony Walker: Although the indoor aerial referred to (same room as TV type?) may well have worked OK in the Cardiff location the only reason it done so was because that the situation was totally different from where you are presently located, insomuch that the signal was being received from the Wenvoe transmitters rated @ 100Kw (PSB) / 50 Kw (COM) respectively and with the station located at only around 5 miles or so away, whereas in the case of Ferndale its only rated @ 20watts as well as being directional.
Although I have my doubts as to whether or not you will be able to receive anything from Ferndale using an indoor aerial, but go into your TV's tuning menu / manual tune / and enter Ferndales ITV's mux channel C57 into the box but do NOT press search or scan, because if anything is there to receive the strength / quality of should appear in the signal bars.
If nothing is seen, leave the TV on that screen and try moving the aerial around to different positions in the room.