Digifusion: FVRT200 lost channels?

[xZer0]

Hi,

I have just bought the Digifusion: FVRT200 and it was fine for the first week, now it won't pick up BBC1 / BBC2 / BBC3 after countless amounts of rescans, formats, and reverting to factory settings.

As I have a freeview tv it even stops the TV picking up the channels, I have to turn it off at the mains before I can watch BBC1 on my TV's freeview channels?

Thanks for any advice.

[xZer0]

Just tryed it down stairs and it picks up 6 frequencies instad of the 4 I do. They both come from the same aerial though......

[jerryq7777]

Sounds like either the tuners or the RF output is faulty.Take it back for an exchange or refund.

[xZer0]

Looks like I'm going to have to....

Just tryed it in the other room up stairs and again only 4 frequencies. No idea why downstairs has 6.

[ROYOLD]

The problem is due to your upstairs signals being weaker than the downstairs.

Presumably your main aerial is on the chimney (or roof) and is fed into the downstairs area first by the co-axial cable and then up to the bedroom. Aerial RF signals are attenuated by the length of cable run so the longer the cable the weaker the signals.

Ideally you need a masthead amplifier to increase the signal from the aerial which could then be split into two cable runs (one downstairs one upstairs).

You may find that fitting a TV booster to the aerial co-axial cable before the upstairs run increases the signal sufficiently to receive all six frequency multiplexes. On my long cable run I have two boosters fitted. One where the co-axial cable enters the property and another booster just before the TV input.

Use the one outlet booster as this gives the maximum signal increase.

To prove there is nothing wrong with the PVR box do a rescan of the channels using it downstairs with the downstairs aerial.

[xZer0]

I think it goes straight from the roof into the 2nd room where there is a booster/splitter box that is then split to that rooms tv/ downstairs and then my room with the legnth of the cables being in that order.

So in an ideal world it should of worked in the 2nd room, would the quality of the cables have any influence as the one going downstairs actually goes outside the house so i'm guessing its no cheap standard wire?

Thanks

[ajm007]

Maybe it is your booster that is at fault. Try swapping the connection around so that the one that is currently feeding downstairs feeds you upstairs one and see if that make any difference. At lease you will know if it is the booster at fault.

[ROYOLD]

So the splitter is actually splitting the signal three ways.

Depending on the type of booster used the three outlets may have equal gain or it may be that one outlet has half the gain and the other half is split between two outlets. In the latter case the outlet with the longest co-axial cable run will receive the least signal of all.

Look at the booster/splitter being used to see what gain is on each outlet.

Different models have different gain figures and the number of outlets on a booster can considerably reduce the signal supplied to each outlet.

I use a single ONE outlet booster where the aerial first enters the property from the roof and another four outlet booster with switched high gain to supply signals to TV. DVD Recorder, Humax PVR, separate freeview STB. The latter is this Maxview model :

http://www.maxview.co.uk/acatalog/di...mplifiers.html

http://www.maxview.co.uk/acatalog/TV...&_FILTERS.html

[xZer0]

Thanks, what I can't understand is why it worked in the first place for a good week.

[ROYOLD]

Maybe you had a good spell of settled weather.

My 18 element Band A aerial which is trained on Moel-y-parc (near Rhyl, North Wales) usually will not pick up the Channel 32 Film 4 channel but during this last week of settled High pressure with no rain reception quality has been excellent on this channel. During yesterdays rain it was back again to showing "bad signal". It's surprising what a difference the wind and rain can make to a digital signal at great distance.

It could also be that one of your co-axial cables is faulty with an intermittent fault. Only substitution with a known good cable will prove this.

You can check out any obtructions in line of sight between your home and transmitters by entering the NGR (national grid reference) numbers into the Megalithia website from this link :

http://www.tellyaerial.34sp.com/ta.php/transmitters