Hi All,
I'm really hopeful someone here can help.
I have a Samsung 32" LCD, with freeview tuner, as well as a Humax PVR-9300T Freeview+ box. The symptoms I'm having are similar on both tuners, leading me to think it's an aerial / reception issue.
I live at the top of a 13 storey tower block, and have always had my aerial pointed to the Rowridge Transmitter on the Isle of wight. Its the way it was when I moved in and never had any problems, until recently. After the 25th March frequency changes at rowridge (which I only found out about after googling my issues) I had poor reception, channels missing all the usual freeview problems. Retuned, didn't fix. Contacted Humax, who gave me a step by step guide to removing all trace of existing channels then retuning manually, worked in part - the channels where I get good quality are perfect, the channels where I have poor quality I get nothing (and potentially symptom no.1 on channels/MUX's with poor quality I get quality rating constantly alternating from 0/10% to 70/80%) .
So, I decided to point my aerial at the Brighton Whitehawk hill transmitter. I'd heard it was low powered, but I'm close to the transmitter and have relatively none of the obstacle issues people at 'house height' would have. This again worked in part, good quality on some MUX's and the channels are great, alternating poor/zero on others and no channels (different tv channels available compared to rowridge). This time a new symptom of the '800' channels. Channels that tune in but are automatically assigned to 801,802, etc by the freeview box.
Things I've tried since:
- By-passing the booster to ensure no interference is coming from that. I learned it actually did quite a good job at boosting signal.
- Adding an attenuator in case I had too much signal. Channels I could get before I could still get but with less signal, channels I couldn't get, I still couldn't get.
Additional symptoms:
- I get rubbish analogue signal too
I've read that if you pick up 2 signals for certain channels it can confuse(?) the tuner, leading to channels assigned to the 800 range. So this leads me to think I need to somehow block out the reception from rowridge, but how would I do that on top of a tower block?
The only other piece of information I can think of right now is environmental, there are mobile phone masts pointing out from the building - whether or not they could interfere I don't know.
I'm soo miffed at the fact that rowridge have changed something which has meant I no longer get tv, especially bbc1 and bbc2 which I pay the licence fee for, without even publicising in the Brighton area how, when or why it would be happening.
Any tips, advice, things to try would be hugely appreciated. Anyone in Brighton having, or having sorted, a similar issue please also get in touch.
Thanks to anyone taking the time to read all this too
I'm really hopeful someone here can help.
I have a Samsung 32" LCD, with freeview tuner, as well as a Humax PVR-9300T Freeview+ box. The symptoms I'm having are similar on both tuners, leading me to think it's an aerial / reception issue.
I live at the top of a 13 storey tower block, and have always had my aerial pointed to the Rowridge Transmitter on the Isle of wight. Its the way it was when I moved in and never had any problems, until recently. After the 25th March frequency changes at rowridge (which I only found out about after googling my issues) I had poor reception, channels missing all the usual freeview problems. Retuned, didn't fix. Contacted Humax, who gave me a step by step guide to removing all trace of existing channels then retuning manually, worked in part - the channels where I get good quality are perfect, the channels where I have poor quality I get nothing (and potentially symptom no.1 on channels/MUX's with poor quality I get quality rating constantly alternating from 0/10% to 70/80%) .
So, I decided to point my aerial at the Brighton Whitehawk hill transmitter. I'd heard it was low powered, but I'm close to the transmitter and have relatively none of the obstacle issues people at 'house height' would have. This again worked in part, good quality on some MUX's and the channels are great, alternating poor/zero on others and no channels (different tv channels available compared to rowridge). This time a new symptom of the '800' channels. Channels that tune in but are automatically assigned to 801,802, etc by the freeview box.
Things I've tried since:
- By-passing the booster to ensure no interference is coming from that. I learned it actually did quite a good job at boosting signal.
- Adding an attenuator in case I had too much signal. Channels I could get before I could still get but with less signal, channels I couldn't get, I still couldn't get.
Additional symptoms:
- I get rubbish analogue signal too
I've read that if you pick up 2 signals for certain channels it can confuse(?) the tuner, leading to channels assigned to the 800 range. So this leads me to think I need to somehow block out the reception from rowridge, but how would I do that on top of a tower block?
The only other piece of information I can think of right now is environmental, there are mobile phone masts pointing out from the building - whether or not they could interfere I don't know.
I'm soo miffed at the fact that rowridge have changed something which has meant I no longer get tv, especially bbc1 and bbc2 which I pay the licence fee for, without even publicising in the Brighton area how, when or why it would be happening.
Any tips, advice, things to try would be hugely appreciated. Anyone in Brighton having, or having sorted, a similar issue please also get in touch.
Thanks to anyone taking the time to read all this too