Hi Guys
been reading the thread with interest. I bought the house next door some time ago and started running two sky boxes one for the main room and our bedroom (direct feed on RF66) which was fine and the other box for the family room run to the kids rooms on RF66). Both ran beautifully very simple system. We could change channels without running downstairs but it worked.
Then I decided to get a proper system including powered amplifiers, remote eyes, new cabling, new aerials including FM and DAB as I love listen to radio and upgraded aerial ready for freeview and the digital switchover which here is next August. I got in a local specialist who seemingly did a really good job for the lot and when he left everything was fine no interference same RF's on both boxes. He used good quality cable connectors etc and I had new aerial outlet boxes put in each room for TV and FM/DAB. Some months later we had some work done on the house and a re-organise of bedroms etc and I asked him back to re-jig where necessary. Again just the main sky to our bedroom and the conservatory and the second box signal to other rooms.
He ended up linking in another amplifier near the second sky box and relaying some cables. Afterwards the kids suddenly had access to my sky box (watch rather than control) and their own box (watch and control) but the picture from box two was awful. He had apparently changed the RF on box two to 60 but there was interference and whichever RF I tried the same problem (slight better or worse) the result was the same.
I got him on the phone and he then said the RF range was just to crowded and until the analogue switch off the problem would remain. I asked him why the kids now could see my box and he said he had had to re-route things and add another amplifier because I had added a feed into the conservatory and there was nothing he could do. He said he would not come back very disappointingly he had come highly recommended.
To cut a long story short he has rogered my system which was ok until he came back. I have tried to get him back again but to no avail just the same excuses. The questions bugging me are-
1) is he right when the anaolgue switch off comes will the interference go if i give box 2 a new RF out number or will the free view digital channels take up the RF's left vacant and we are back to square one?
2) Shall I just get in someone else to try and fathom what he did and undue the thing?
3) Or is there a simple answer and I am missing something really basic?
I am reasonably ok with things like this normally being an enthusiastic amatuer but I am finding this one hard to work out and almost resigned to getting in another bod unless he is right about the analogue switch off being my salvation.
The kids are driving crackers complaining about the picture quality in their rooms (so would i be incidentally if it was my picture. There freeview pictures are fine reallly good in fact just the sky on box 2. Oddly the picture from the main box on RF60 is fine but that just makes their frustration worse. Help would be really appreciated.