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| Thread ID: 141772 | 2016-02-21 03:24:00 | TV reception corruption in Ak | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 1416344 | 2016-02-25 07:04:00 | Might be irrelevant, but I once found a mess of cobwebs inside a splitter box when I was tracking down a signal issue. Maybe, just speculating, that may short out any signal passing through the box... maybe. | Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1416345 | 2016-02-25 07:17:00 | Might be irrelevant, but I once found a mess of cobwebs inside a splitter box when I was tracking down a signal issue. Maybe, just speculating, that may short out any signal passing through the box... maybe. Might have been one of Google's web crawlers branching out? |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1416346 | 2016-02-26 23:57:00 | Hmmm....... Just turned on the TV to see what its doing today and it is back to it's bad habits, but the interruptions only last a few seconds then there's a longish stretch of normal reception. Oops, spoke too soon, now it's dropping in and out at 4-5 second intervals. All the indications are that it is atmospheric. We are on the wrong side of a ridge, so there may be some layering effect in play. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1416347 | 2016-02-27 01:05:00 | Don't know exactly where you were Billy, but I live in that area of Otago. My freeview satellite reception is as good as any I have seen. I know some the motel reception is crap around here. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1416348 | 2016-02-27 12:35:00 | What does the signal strength and quality say on your set? | apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1416349 | 2016-02-29 09:17:00 | Don't know exactly where you were Billy, but I live in that area of Otago . My freeview satellite reception is as good as any I have seen . I know some the motel reception is crap around here . OK, we were in the campsite at the Southern end of lake Hawea, and on a satellite feed . Signal strength was variable and it was quite clear that the effects were atmospheric . Meanwhile, back in the jungle (Auckland) we are on a terrestrial feed from the Waiatarua transmitter . The transmitter mast itself is out of direct view because we are below a ridge . Back in the late 1960s, at our bach on the east coast of the upper North Island we were picking up Australian TV during January on skip signals, and I suspect that the current UHF transmissions in Auckland are bouncing off the ridge under similar weather conditions . I have a set of stacked UHF yagis just begging to be installed, but Mrs T thinks I'll fall off the roof or some-such, so I'll have to play it cool for a while before I can install them . Hopefully one or the other will calm down, then normal reception can be restored . :D As for this question: What does the signal strength and quality say on your set? we do not have signal strength and/or quality data displays on freeview terrestrial . At the moment only crappy programs are showing, therefore Sod's law applies automatically, and the signal is perfect! :annoyed: Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1416350 | 2016-02-29 16:04:00 | Pretty much all Freeview TV sets have a menu somewhere with signal level and quality on them. Check in the setup channel tuning screen If its a Samsung you can get it to show by holding down the info button on the remote for a few seconds. |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1416351 | 2016-03-01 01:58:00 | Pretty much all Freeview TV sets have a menu somewhere with signal level and quality on them. Check in the setup channel tuning screen Yeah well, I finally managed to dig out the signal level/quality display, it was well hidden, and our signal level is rock solid at 100, but signal condition varies thus: 20/0/40/52/46/39/100 etc. If signal level is stable at 100, then there's a good chance my aerial and distribution system are OK, so the signal 'condition' must be being corrupted enroute to my antenna, possibly via a multipath-effect over the crest of the hill vis: the random multipath signal that would have produced ghosting on analogue, (though it never did here). Sound is only affected when it really goes ape. After writing the above, I just had another thought!! There's a whopping great crane at the peak of that crest, so I took a quick look from the top of our driveway and, yep, our antenna points directly at the B@#$&*#! thing. It may be innocent, but this could also mean that the building that is going up might well make matters worse! :( Cheers BIlly 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1416352 | 2016-03-01 02:28:00 | The signal is probably stuck at 100 because you are amping past the max level it reads regardless of input signal strength. The crane is definitely a suspect. The obvious approach when reception suddenly changes is to Identify what's changed. Did weather patterns affect your reception in the past? if not why blame them now. The crane is an obvious change, as would be any problems with poor connections, corrosion, water ingress, antenna orientation, etc. The weather however has always been around and other than very unusual or heavy weather conditions should not be a factor. Does Auckland not have an infill transmitter and if so can you get line of sight to it? in Hamilton we can either point at Te Aroha using horizontal polarization or point at the government life building in the CBD with vertical polarization. The infill transmitter is much weaker but also much closer. It does mean rescanning the channels though. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1416353 | 2016-03-01 06:29:00 | Does Auckland not have an infill transmitter and if so can you get line of sight to it? Auckland has several, but best of all the Sky Tower is line of sight directly off the end of our street (but across the Harbour) so I should be able to pull a signal off that even if I'm using a side-lobe. If it doesn't improve, I'll leave the old VHF antenna in place for FM, and maybe try out my stacked UHF yagis. I'll need a bit of hardware to set it up, but JAYCAR are not too far away. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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