All posts by Ben Ward
Below are all of Ben Ward's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.OK, I repeated the test I did before. Humax signal strength is about 75-80% and quality is 100%. Antenna power is off.
Transferring the aerial to the Panasonic and doing those tests again showed that strength varies from/flickers between 0-20% at best; quality varies from 85-100% which is pretty much what it was before when antenna power was on, on the Humax.
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jb38, I am posting part way through my latest attempts to sort myself out :-)
I reset my Panasonic back to factory condition etc. as you suggest above. It didn't help sadly. I have noticed that when I do an auto setup or rescan for channels, the system defaults to 'Channel 21' - isn't it meant to be 'Channel 61' for this part of the world?? How do I change it as it seems stuck?
I will tackle the next part of your suggestions this coming week, powering down the 4 way aerial splitter.
nb Sorry if I wasn't clear before, I don't have a second rooftop aerial, all F.V. boxes are and have been supplied from 1 signalfrom our only aerial with a splitter in the attic. One of those signals is further split in 2 for the downstairs (main) TV, to the Humax and (when it was working) to a Sony VTX-D800U.
Regards.
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jb38, the process of switching off the mains power supply to my 4 way splitter has been proving a bit of a task as its all in the attic, and I'm not as young as I was so scrambling around up there is difficult! So I am asking a friends son to help out with tracing exactly what cable system/splitter and so on I have in the attic and will report from that point. Perhaps some issue with the splitter is the cause of my problems? We'll see...
As far as the other things you've suggested, using the same aerial cable that gives me normal 90-100% strength/quality on the Humax, but plugged into the Panasonic, only gives me signal strength of between roughly 10% and 30% at best (though with signal quality of 100% each time) when manually checking channels 61 - 54 - 48 - 56 - 52. So rather than green occasionally flickering into yellow, its red occasionally flickering into yellow. I've not yet had time to try the 18inch length of wire you mentioned; could I not get the same effect by using a different aerial cable from the one I know works? (btw I tried a second cable, and no signal appeared at all.)
Thanks.
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Success! I have sorted out my TV problems FINALLY. It was merely a failed line amplifier which wasn't putting out enough signal (so it was indeed a mains issue). Aerial reception was fine. Thanks go out to Kevin from Wiltshire Aerials.
With a fair few loss of signal/pixellisation problems on the Mendip transmitter reported on here, could some sort of spike have messed people's signal/splitter/amp/picture up?
jb38 especially, thank you for your help with this. I must say I am thankful that I've found this website.
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I look forward to the day, in a few decades probably, when the option to attenuate or simply switch off the music track completely is commonplace. I wonder, does poor judgement/taste on the part of TV directors lead to equally poor/unoriginal/irritating music being commissioned, or does the poor music that already exists just lead to more of the same being created?
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Monday 2 July 2012 10:00PM
Melksham
Will do, jb38 my posting about the helpful service engineer was just in case I ended up in a deadend. Will respond to your new question tomorrow (I'm out right now)