All posts by Jason Wright
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Sam: I'm about 25 miles south from you in a village called Thakeham. I lost everything sometime early Saturday AM. 3 TVs all have the same issues, so it's signal related. 2 of them will find channels, but my Toshiba can't find anything.
I've checked all that I can (cables, booster, connections in the loft, factory resets, turning my Wi-Fi off etc) but unable to check the roof aerial as I'm lacking a tall ladder. Probably have to get someone out to check things over.
Bl**dy annoying as the signal has been fine for years and the digital aerial I've got is not 2 years old yet!
J.
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jb38: Hi. Thanks for the advice.
I did take the booster out of the equation yesterday, no difference, but have not tried connecting the download lead direct to a room feed. To be honest it's a connection in the loft that looks a bit 'pro' to me to be fiddled with.
My Mum who lives 7 miles away in Billinghurst has now lost all her channels too. Coincidence?
J.
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Hi.
So I bypassed the booster by just using a normal aerial patch lead in use on one of my other TVs. Retuned, but got nothing watchable. It finds channels (between 88 and 137 in total) and lists them from channel 800 onwards on my Sony. My Tosh can't find anything anymore. BBC 1 is blocky and pixelated with no sound and then then screen goes black with a no signal message.
As far as I remember the booster is a remote power one that boost the signal to a distro box in the loft. The box has 1 input and 4 outputs, with only 3 outputs in use. The installer said we needed the booster as the signal strength was poor in our area. The booster is a Labgear R08W18 3w.
The aerial cable run from the aerial to the distro box and then down to the main TV has has got to be about 12m, so I'd hope there was enough there to get something watchable?
Don't think there's much more I can try. I'll give the length of cable a shot, but not hopeful.
J.
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Tracy: Hi. I had the same late last year. All channels gone on 3 different TVs. I could get a bit of BBC1, but not much. It was the remote powered booster in the loft that had failed. Took it out of the loop and replaced with a 4 way splitter... all channels back again. The Areial engineer said I didn't need a booster anymore as the signal strength was now good from the Midhurst transmitter.
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Saturday 15 June 2013 7:06PM
Hi
I live in West Sussex (RH20) and pickup my signal from Midhurst I believe. Up to 00:10 on the 15th the signal was fine, yet today all 3 of my TV's (Sony, Toshiba and Samsung) are saying poor quality signal, but good strength??? I've re-tuned all of them, reset all the cables etc, but there's just not enough signal to produce a picture. To be honest the re-tune has lost all the BBC services and only picks up ITV, Channel 4/5, More 4, E4 etc.
Things had been working fine for years and I don't suspect any ariel issues, but going to check that out next.
I noticed theres some work on an IOW transmitter at present could I be tuned to that?
Any thoughts?
Thanks. J (RH20 an)