[BNM] Digital TV Tuning

[James McCarthy]

I have the exact opposite problem, very low signal on BBC channels and near
100% on everything else.

I went down to good old Maplin and got a high gain digital amplifier (most
don't do clean amplification of digital frequencies).

Some boxes show signal strenght and some don't if you are close to the
transmitter or have a high gain arial you may want to check you aren't
getting an overloaded signal.

You can also get interferance on non digital compliant cable.

Maplin also do high gain arials which are better than boosers with amplify
the interference, but if you do have to have an amplifier it is better to
get a head one rather than down stream.

Maplin is the place to go for all this stuff, but check it out online as you
may not get the best advice in-shop.

Well that was my 2p worth.

James

On 1/7/07, Dominic Mitchell <dom at happygiraffe.net> wrote:
>
> Jim H. wrote:
> > Stations come from various multiplexes around here with greatly varying
> > signal strengths. There is some interesting Q&A action here
> > http://www.ukfree.tv/txdetail.php?a=TQ566220
> > I had a similar problem to one of those posters (preston park area) and
> > rectified it with it a £20 signal booster from the electrical shop near
> B&Q.
> > Little box has a gain adjuster on it and only needs to be around 90% for
> > strong signal on every channel so that might help. Depends on you aerial
> > status I guess (shared or own dedicated external).
>
> I reckon I'm getting signal from whitehawk:
>
>    http://www.ukfree.tv/txdetail.php?a=TQ330045
>
> But that's interesting, as it says mux 1 and mux 2 are both "Very low".
>   Yet it's only mux 2 that I'm having problems with.  So I'm going to
> blame the box and get a new one on Monday.
>
> > Otherwise you use this as an excuse to persuade you significant other
> that
> > it is time to switch to sky+
>
> More money to murdoch?  Nah...
>
> -Dom
>
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-- 
James