All posts by Rob Mitchell
Below are all of Rob Mitchell's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Rob Mitchell: i have no issues with bbc channels they are great, itv channels and others are blocky with good signal. I have the channels from 53 but cannot get them from 50 at all for quest etc. This only started to happen a couple of weeks ago before then i had no blocky picture and all the channels.
thanks for your help and advice, much appreciated.
Rob
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Dear All,
Still having issues with this, the channel signal for the bbc channels is good and i have no issues with them, but the ITV channels have high signal strength and is blocky at times and the sound dips out. From Com 3 all my channels are gone, I would really like to get these back and sort out the interference.
Any help would be very welcome.
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Rob Mitchell: well all everything is now back, think the blocky picture is also gone, no idea what was going on
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Hi All,
I'm back again, Having issues again with my tv reception, The channels i am having trouble with are on PSB2 D3+4 from the Oxford transmitter. All other channels are just fine.
The ones on PSB2 D3+4 say they have 100% signal on my sony TV however they keep breaking up like the signal is poor. I have 100% also on the other channels which have no issue but no break up in signal.
They say there is no engineering works at Oxford however i do not understand how all multiplexes work properly apart from PSB2 D3+4.
Looking at the guidance here i have a cat 2 ariel which has been OK the last 3 years.
Please Help, its doing my head in!!!
Regards
Rob
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Cheers David,
Was thinking the same after reading a few things on the internet. Just really weird it has started to happen now after having the same set up for some time.
Have ordered one tonight on the internet so will give it a go when it gets here.
Thanks for the advice David lets hope it works.
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Hi David and All,
Got the Attenuator today, popped it into the back of the TV and attached ariel cable, went to 3 (ITV) which is one of the channels i am having trouble with and turned the knob on the attenuator whilst watching the signal strength. Turned it all the way up and the signal did not seem to reduce at all, so i was thinking it must be a dud. However changed to bbc 1 which is perfect reception even with high on the strengh meter and did the same, this time it reduced the signal, i could wind it up until the signal was lost.
So how do i deal with the one MUX of channels on channel 60 being really high in signal without effecting the others.
If i recude the signal on bbc 1 to good i then loose entirly all of the channels from the channel 50 like quest and the signal on channel 60 still not being any better and still blocky.
Do i need to move the Ariel in the loft somehow to solve the problem?
Really anoying as this was not happening before xmas and my daughters tv which runs off the same ariel through unamped splitter seems to deal with the signal saying the strength on signal is 60 and quality is 90 (cheap 100 pound flat screen TV). However on my sony down stairs i can only see the signal strengh in a bar form which states it is high 100% of the bar.
Please help!!!!
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I think this is my ariel by the way, is this suitable do you think, Used to bloody be!!!!
SLx Digital Aerial CAI 32 Element
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Thanks again for the advice, no powered splitters at all or amplifiers on the system. Also my daughter had no issues with her tv in her room which come from the same Ariel. Only seems to be an issue on the Sony but only recently. Really confusing, if i turn the signal down with an attenuator in the back of the tv to get around 75 % on the effected channels i then loose bbc 1 and quest and lots of other channels. The interference seems to be ok when you first turn over to the effected channels but then starts to get blocky again.
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Jb38 just plugged in unpowered set top Ariel as suggested and 100 % on the effected channels still. However like i say how do i turn this signal down without effecting the other channels
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Sunday 5 January 2014 8:16PM
Kidlington
Hi All,
Hope you can help me, i have been having issues with freeview now since before xmas. Before this time everything was fine and i had 112 channels. Now i am down to 51, i have tried to re-position the Ariel in the loft but ended up going back to the same location as i got even less channels.
I do not understand what has changed, i did get the channels back up to 82 yesterday but it seems that only the bbc channels and some others like dave are ok, ITV and others are really bad and blocky or have disappeared (like quest etc on the COM 4). I am now back to 51 today. I do not understand this as my daughter can get all the channels like i used to be able to with her set top Ariel.
Please Help
Robert Mitchell, from kidlington Oxford