[cammy22]

Hi, I have my Freeview TV in my living room and my Freeview TV in my bedroom, both split from the antenna socket on my living room wall via a 4-way splitter (2 unused), and all was fine. A month or two ago I added an HDD recorder freeview box, which I had to take another feed from the livingroom wall splitter (now 3 of 4 used) and connected to my TV via HDMI.
Now I lose BBC1 occasionally, mostly during the daytime and channels like Pick TV and 4Music seem to struggle and break up frequently. Also, my tv in the bedroom constantly finds, loses and reloads as signal is too low at various times of the day (also at night).

Is it an aeriel problem (btw the aeriel was replaced as new last year) or maybe I need an amp/booster? Any help will be muchly appreciated this is getting very annoying! Thanks

Cam

[Gavtech]

Originally Posted by cammy22

Hi, I have my Freeview TV in my living room and my Freeview TV in my bedroom, both split from the antenna socket on my living room wall via a 4-way splitter (2 unused), and all was fine. A month or two ago I added an HDD recorder freeview box, which I had to take another feed from the livingroom wall splitter (now 3 of 4 used) and connected to my TV via HDMI.
Now I lose BBC1 occasionally, mostly during the daytime and channels like Pick TV and 4Music seem to struggle and break up frequently. Also, my tv in the bedroom constantly finds, loses and reloads as signal is too low at various times of the day (also at night).

Is it an aeriel problem (btw the aeriel was replaced as new last year) or maybe I need an amp/booster? Any help will be muchly appreciated this is getting very annoying! Thanks


Cam

Connect your new unit temporarily by scart only [ Remove HDMI] and see if the problem goes away .

HDMI leads can leak RF interference which can knock out some or all channels.

If this turns out to be the problem [ rather than over-splitting ] then you require a new HDMI lead - and / or may require better screened UHF leads, and the two should be kept as physically far apart as is practicable.

[cammy22]

Hi Gavtech
I have changed the HDMI for scart. No improvement in picture break-up on 4music and Pick TV and still losing BBC1 completely at certain times of the day. Its so annoying. Its like they boost the BBC1 mux signal at night, I always get BBC1 at night for some reason?!
So no need to amplify the signal coming in to the box in my wall?

Thanks

[grahamlthompson]

Try a cheap one in one out plug in amp before the splitter.

eg

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