Hello,
This relates to a block of seven flats in Watford, Herts with a shared aerial pointing toward the Crystal Palace transmitter. There is a basic mains powered Philex aerial amplifier in the loft followed by a splitter with a cable emanating to each flat.
For more than 5 years we've had no problems with Freeview reception until about four weeks ago since when we have periodically lost Mux 1 every day for periods anything from a few minutes to a few hours at a time. When it returns, it returns with a strong signal. All of the other Mux's are receiving a high strength signal all the time. There's nothing online to indicate that it's periodoc maintenance related.
Without any technical knowledge of the subject, I'm making an assumption that the strong signal on all other Mux's indicates that aerial and cabling is all functional. The only other thing I can think is that the aerial needs directional tweeking, but that doesn't explain the all or nothing reception on one Mux only. I need to call an Aerial Engineer out, but it troubles me that someone may come out and be inclined to replace equipment that doesn't need replacing.
TIA for any advice.
This relates to a block of seven flats in Watford, Herts with a shared aerial pointing toward the Crystal Palace transmitter. There is a basic mains powered Philex aerial amplifier in the loft followed by a splitter with a cable emanating to each flat.
For more than 5 years we've had no problems with Freeview reception until about four weeks ago since when we have periodically lost Mux 1 every day for periods anything from a few minutes to a few hours at a time. When it returns, it returns with a strong signal. All of the other Mux's are receiving a high strength signal all the time. There's nothing online to indicate that it's periodoc maintenance related.
Without any technical knowledge of the subject, I'm making an assumption that the strong signal on all other Mux's indicates that aerial and cabling is all functional. The only other thing I can think is that the aerial needs directional tweeking, but that doesn't explain the all or nothing reception on one Mux only. I need to call an Aerial Engineer out, but it troubles me that someone may come out and be inclined to replace equipment that doesn't need replacing.
TIA for any advice.