All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Johnpaul: If your satellite receiver is fed directly from the dish then the problem is most likely caused by the dish having been blown out of alignment, therefore go into your boxes signal check screen and see if anything is being indicated on the strength / quality bars.
By the way, if you are using a standard Sky box or a white Sky+ box press: Services - 4 - 6.
If using one of the later Sky+ HD boxes the procedure is slightly different.
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.
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Laura Campbell: Checking the terrain between the Angus transmitter and each of the two locations mentioned indicates that it was purely through luck that you had previously managed to receive those programmes in the first place due to the signal path from the transmitter being obstructed, this in your original location being from approximately 10 down to 8 miles prior to your area whereas now its completely obstructed from approximately from 9 down to 1 mile.
You can view the obstructions referred to by opening the undermentioned links.
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
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Eddie Stacey: Re: Panasonic problems, purely out of curiosity I would be obliged if you could furnish me with the model numbers of the devices in question?
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Rob: I am really pleased to see that your problem has finally been rectified by the elimination of a localised source of interference, this rather backing up the results of the previous tests you carried out suggesting that the problem just had to be caused by something located close to your TV.
I will say though that I still feel that the problem was really down to a combination of a Wi-Fi device with a somewhat higher level of spurious emissions than would be experienced from an alternative brand of device coupled to the offending device being used in relatively close proximity to a TV with a less than ideal level of rejection to sources of interference, this being irrespective of whether its picked up via the TV's aerial input or alternatively direct injection into its PCB circuitry, however the main thing is that your problem has now finally been nailed once and for all.
Many thanks for the numerous updates given on the situation, this possibly being helpful to others that may have the misfortune of experiencing similar problems to yourself at some point in time.
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richard : Another factor that could be responsible is that the signal received from Emley Moor (@ 14.5 miles / 187 degrees) is seen to be obstructed at approximately 1 mile prior to your location, this meaning that the signal received is via an element of diffraction and which likewise can be affected by the surface condition of the terrain.
It was also noticed that a number of aerials in your area are observed as being vertically polarised as they are facing the local Beecroft Hill Freeview "light" PSB only transmitter located at just over 1 mile away, this being an indication that reception problems do exist in your area.
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Eddie stacey: Yes, the symptoms described would indicate a power supply module failure, what puzzles me is why the engineer who diagnosed the problem did not offer? to search around for a low cost second hand replacement PCB module, as one is even being currently advertised by a trade dismantler on e-bay for £35.00 + £4.00 P&P, the item in question being guaranteed for 30 days and which allows more than ample time for any faults that may exist in the board to show up, as buying new does not by any means always guarantee 100% reliability as some new components (particularly I.C's) can on the odd occasion fail after a few hours use.
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Satish: You have to set this up on the main TV that your Sky box is connected into via either a scart or HDMI lead and "not" via the Sky boxes RF1 or 2 output that goes into the aerial socket of the "secondary" TV that its assumed you are viewing, this being auto tuned in analogue once that the Sky box has been set up on your main TV.
This said on the assumption that you are using a secondary TV in another room from from the main one?
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satish : Is your Sky box coupled into your main TV via a scart lead? because if it is and you have set the Sky boxes RF output channel to 21 and pressed "save new settings" then the image on the second TV will vanish as the TV will have to be auto-tuned (in analogue) to enable it to find the new RF output from the Sky box, once found make a note of the TV's "channel position selector number" indicated on the screen and press "store" or "save", remembering that the channel position number is "not" the RF channel number used on the Sky box, most usually allocating programme Ch1 on the analogue TV to view the Sky box as nothing is broadcast on analogue channels nowadays and so any position number can be used
If though you are referring to the Sky box not having retained the newly selected RF output channel number even although you have pressed the "save new settings" bar then that indicates a fault on the box.
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Steve Williams: Thats not really surprising considering the fact that those other stations referred to are indicated as being unreliable (if received at all!) on the reception predictor.
Click on "S's Digital UK tradeview" in the selection box seen on the right hand side of your posting or alternatively open the undermentioned link.
Coverage Checker - Detailed View
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Saturday 15 February 2014 7:31PM
Charles Stuart: Possibly A516?