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Tv aerial and boosters
corrado vr6 - 1/2/14 at 12:32 PM

Hi there,

Since the windy weather and rain we have had recently all the TV's upstairs have stopped working, in the loft I have a 6 way booster that plugs into mains and takes the main aerial and splits signal 5 ways, originally I thought booster is knackered ordered a new one and no difference, however if I just plug the main aerial coming into the house into just one tv free view box it works? So I know the aerial is ok but perhaps not enough signal strength to run through the booster? (even with all TV's off except one still no picture and just says poor or no signal)

Is there a way I can check or is it going to be a get up on the roof and check and possibly move the aerial?

Any help or advice is very much welcome

Cheers Greg

[Edited on 1/2/14 by corrado vr6]

jacko - 1/2/14 at 12:38 PM

The part in your loft is only half the booster the other part is on the aerial if its like the one we have
Jacko

corrado vr6 - 1/2/14 at 12:42 PM

So is that replaceable? Or new aerial?

jacko - 1/2/14 at 01:08 PM

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Originally posted by corrado vr6
So is that replaceable? Or new aerial?


Well our's is as we had to have a new one fitted we got the same aerial fitter back as it was /is under guarantee its just a small box on the aerial post

cable in cable out then to the one in the loft our's got water in it
Jacko

matt_gsxr - 1/2/14 at 07:14 PM

If you manually tune a digital television then it gives you a quantitative signal level. I have found this helpful when debugging problems of this sort.

In my case it turned out my Panasonic DVD player put out a bunch of noise at the same frequency as ITV.