Re: Help!: TV distribution not working. Pls help.

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

Aha - that certainly sounds like a possibility - does anyone happen to know
a channel that doesn't have a digital channel on it that I could try ? I am
currently using the default sky+ output channel - I would be a little
suprised I suppose if it shipped with such a clash but I suppose the
satelite installers may have moved the channel.

Chris


>From: Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Help!: TV distribution not working. Pls help.
>Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:31:50 +1300
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>christopher purves wrote:
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> > Could my TV Aerial signal somehow be too strong causing the Sky+
box to
>shut
> > off ? Does the Sky+ retune its output if it gets a signal near
its
>normal
> > output channel
> >
> > I am really at a loss to understand what is going on.
>
>You may be trying to put the sky output on a channel that has a digital
>channel
>on it. These wont really show on an analog tuner (they can sometimes be
>detected
>as a change in the whitenoise) - I would try the sky on a different
>channel.
>
>Without a spectrum analyser or a _good_ field strength meter what you
are
>doing
>is hit and miss. I found here that simply putting 3 db attenuators on
my
>sat
>reviervers outputs before combining and an attenuator on the antenna
got
>everything pretty much spot on level wise into the amp, before I had
>herringbone
>interferenace all over the place and loads of channels had mixtures of
>others on
>them.
>
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