All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Michael: Yes exactly! as I personally have not as yet found any cases where a viewer was genuinely suffering from the effects of residing close to a 4G source being tested out.
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rob: Well, working on top of an extension ladder tall enough to reach the level of a three story house is certainly "not" for the faint hearted, but with regards to your latter comment, either that or be fortunate enough to have a street lighting maintenance vehicle working in the area and with the driver of being open to persuasion, backed up of course by a suitable bribe!!
Sometimes though its better all round just to "grin and bear it" and pay an installers surcharge for working at an excessive height.
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denise: If the LNB on the dish was fitted with twin outputs for a Sky+ box and you no longer wish to use the recording side of the box then you only require one of the two leads to be connected into the boxes LNB1, therefore the second lead can be used for the other box.
By the way, its not really necessary to contact Sky unless you want to view Sky dedicated programmes that's part of a subscription package on the second box, because if not the other box will operate without a card anyway albeit that the news services will have reverted to London.
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denise: I did also mean to add, that if you no longer subscribe to Sky then you would not be be able to use the recording side of the box anyway as Sky will have disabled your access to same from the viewing card, therefore the only purpose it now serves is to provide you with the correct local news for your area.
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ron: Should you be referring to Freesat then both of those channels are perfectly OK when I tested them out about 10 minutes ago.
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john: With due respect to all that has been said, but I have a sneaking suspicion that you spending a great deal of time attempting to find a fault on your installation that doesn't really exist, and the reason for your erratic reception is being caused by the final two miles of the signal path from Sutton C skirting relatively close to the ground and as such is being affected by seasonal changes in the terrain, trees possibly also coming into the equation as quite a number of them are seen to exist in line with S/C's signal path in the last two miles referred to.
The second point being, that under normal circumstances I would generally have advised you to check with a neighbour to find out if they are also experiencing the same difficulties with reception as yourself, but!! this is virtually an impossible task as practically everyone's aerials in your area are facing towards Waltham, and with this still being the case on properties to the West of you (along S/C's signal path) past Shakerdale Road and onto Brixham Drive, this strongly suggesting that no matter what a signal predictions are given on Digital UK's trade site S/C does not provide a good signal in your area hence why all aerials are seen to face Waltham.
The result of the signal test I suggested that you carry out on Waltham was better than I had expected, especially as your aerial is screened by the building as well as being 50 degrees off beam from a true 180 degrees rear pick up, this suggesting that Waltham rather than Sutton C does provide a good signal in your area.
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john: In addition to re: suspicions etc, the only other remote possibility I can think of for the erratic element of your reception is that of a faulty connection where the coax joins into aerial, because if this did apply then this could account for you having said that your reception goes downhill when its foggy / misty etc and associated with dampness and which may have gained access into the aerials termination box, as under "normal" conditions fog / mist doesn't really affect DTT reception.
Of course those conditions will also have an effect on the terrain!
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Veronica Huxford: I would try retuning your box as H&C appears to have changed onto another transponder, if retuning does not have the desired effect then you can manually tune it in using the the following info.
Astra 28.2 - 12.552 (V ) - 22.000 - 5/6
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john: With reference to the masthead amplifier and power supply for same, if your signal is not now going through the booster or amplifier, both titles meaning the same thing, then how did you manage to bypass the mast head amplifier if it was mounted on the aerial pole? the reason for asking being, that by-passing the power unit has the effect of turning the mast head amplifier into an attenuator.
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Wednesday 9 October 2013 8:46PM
Darren: On the subject of your original query, I am a bit curious as to whether or not you have tried the DVD connected straight into the TV's scart socket just to make sure that its working? because the method you used by connecting it into the Sky+ boxes AV2 (marked video) should under normal circumstances have worked and indeed in some cases override the Sky box without it being in standby, albeit that placing the Sky box in standby is the more usual way of doing things.