All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
kc: Unless a person is residing in a basement flat with an aerial in the same room as them, or alternatively is located behind a large hill that separates them from the transmitter, then an outside aerial should not be necessary when the massively powerful Sutton Coldfield station is only 7/10 miles away. (p/code indicating 7)
If you have access to a set top aerial purely for a test try that, as "if" you are receiving an overly powerful signal then you might get a reasonable picture using that, which if you do is inclined to indicate that the signal you are receiving is on the verges of being too strong.
If you haven't access to a set top aerial, try a short piece of wire (2ft/600mm) pushed into the inner sleeve in the aerial socket.
I see you refer to an attenuator, what range (in dB) is printed on it?
You could also try a re-scan with either of the aforementioned being used.
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Kelly: I have just tried the Freesat channels mentioned by rob (13th Dec) and they are perfectly OK on my TV, what brand of Freesat device are you using?
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Gerard: Purely for a test you should try the ordinary Sky box in the Sky+ boxes position, as although the ordinary Sky box only has one input you can test each of the two inputs used by the Sky+ box in turn, as one of them might be found to be intermittently cutting out, this either through a faulty connection within the "F" connector(s) (fine strand of wire shorting) or even the output port on the dish being faulty.
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John Hutton: Although you report that problem is the same on both TV's which are working totally independent of each other, it depends on whether or not you had initially re-tuned them at the same time? as should a fault at the transmitter have been in evidence at that time then this would have affected both devices.
I would be inclined to try carrying out a factory re-set on one of the TV's followed by an auto-tune, as dependant upon the results you could then just repeat the process on the second set.
Another point that should be noted is, that you would appear to located right next door to the Balgownie relay, and although its only a low powered transmitter of only 8 watts, but because you are using outdoor aerials it could possibly be causing a problem in your TV's tuners, as they will sense its there at a high level. (by being so close!)
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Trevor Bailey: As your query concerns reception you will really have to give more information for anyone to be able to assist, like your location (pref: post code) and what make / model of device you are having the problem with.
Have you tried testing the problem TV / box on the aerial connection used by one of the other devices you report is OK?
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CAROLINE: The normal way of doing things would be for an HDMI lead to be used between the Freeview HD box and your TV, and another HDMI lead connected between the TV's second HDMI socket and the surround sound system, but "IMPORTANT" you have to state the model of TV involved for purposes of checking if its ARC compatible, that is having an audio return channel on one of its HDMI sockets, as if not the audio wont link back through the HDMI lead to the surround sound system.
The HDMI leads used stating "high speed" on the packet, good quality types of the above being available from sources such as Lidl or Aldi at only around the £6.00 mark, I use a number of these and they compare very favourably to another high quality one I have costing nearly four times the price, this foolishly purchased by a "gullible to adverts" member of my family.
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CAROLINE: Yes, I realise that, and its because of its restricted input facilities that I suggested this way of connecting it, but as also mentioned, I have to know the model of TV you are using so that I can check not only its HDMI socket spec, but also its other output facilities just in case the its HDMI socket isn't suitable to be used.
If though you have the user manual for the TV, then have a look in the specifications section usually located at the back of the manual, and see if ARC compatible is listed against any of the HDMI inputs, as if it is then connect the devices as was mentioned.
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babs: As the query you are making involves reception its impossible for anyone to give advice without knowledge of your location, this preferably in the form of a post code, as once known it enables your reception possibilities to be assessed with reference to whatever station you might be receiving from.
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Simon: And a "Happy Christmas" to you also.
However, as far as your query is concerned, I would really advise that its by far the best policy to make enquiries with other residents of the building before purchasing anything, because the "snowy" screen you refer to isn't something associated with Freeview reception, so what you have observed has to be with reference to the "analogue" reception from Crystal Palace, and its on very high power!
Just out of interest, using the DRG's reception predictor, (trade view) I carried out some reception checks by entering a few test post codes taken from locations along Holloway Road, all of indicating good reception as being possible except strangely for the ITV1 multiplex on a N7 6PP post code, as all others were OK.
Crystal Palace is located at 9 miles @ approx 168 degrees from that code, and "if" your flat is located at a high point in the building you "may" get away with using a set top aerial, that is provided your flat is facing roughly S/S.E., but its hit and miss situation and only on site testing would show what's possible.
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Saturday 24 December 2011 11:35AM
Jackie: That sounds suspiciously like the type of problem that might not be rectifiable by anything you can do, what to try though is disconnecting the box from the mains like you have been doing, then after having left it for about 5 minutes (to cool down) take out the aerial before plugging it back in again, leaving the box sitting like that for a further 15 minutes or so before reconnecting the aerial again, then when you do see if the box instantly responds to the remote or whether its locked up again.
Maybe you could mention the model of the device in question.