Freeview Signal Problems.
 

I live in the north Cheshire area and over the last 2-3 days the TV picture has become intermittently pixellated and the speakers make a clicking sound when this happens.
Tried different set-top boxes with the same results.
The aerial hasn't dropped or moved, has anyone else had this problem in this area recently?.

Can't afford to waste money on Virgin or Sky so I rely on Freeview instead.

Yep,
I live in the border with north Wales and had this all the time, even worse when I swapped to freeview hd recorder,
I had to put a booster on the main cable into the house, then I had tee'd off this for all the other TV's around the house and had to boost them all individually, this did solve the problem and not had it again since:thumb:

I've got a really good booster with a high gain output, has been superb till a few days ago, maybe my booster is faulty.
Just needed to ask around first, neighbours all have Sky or Virgin so no info from them.

They just switched the analogue signed off around here. Watching TV through my digibox is unwatchable now.

Particularly ITV Ch4 & Ch5, its very jumpy and the picture constantly freezes.

The 4G phone system is set to cause havoc to Freeview....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...erference.html

Heavy rain clouds can affect the received signal strength.

Les

Don't believe everything you read in the daily mail.


Your amplifier is faulty and corrupting the bit error ratio

Have you "retuned" your channels recently? Dave has moved from 19 to 12, and Food from 49 to 48, for example. 56 and 57 = Movies4Men.

At the M-i-L's (in Warrington) she has 2 TVs and a recorder. Despite numerous attempts I could not 'synchronise' all three to get the same channels. One had 56 and 57, but not the others. On one device Food was still on 49.

I suspect it may be a signal strength issue and will wait a week and try again :(

What transmitter are you on?

Hannington, mux 2 (itv, 4, five channels) has been flakey for the past week since some engineering work but has improved this weekend.

Double click on your transmitter here to find out it's current status http://www.ukfree.tv/txlist.php

Hannington in Hampshire?

How will that effect cheshire which I'm assuming is pointing to winter hill

Do a reset on the tv first , this will delete existing channels, if the recorder box is a humax you have to delete the channels in the channel section of the menu.

I didn't say it would, I said to look up his transmitter on the link provided, I was using Hannington (the transmitter I'm on) as an example.

I live in Southern Germany and have Freesat using a 90cm dish and have no porblems at all except when there is torrential rain or my LNB gets covered in 6 inches of snow :D

This may be the clue ;)

After analogue got switched off they turned up the wick on the Freeview channels to increase coverage and allow HD etc.. If your booster is amplifying this further it could be clipping at the demodulator input. Too much signal is as bad as too little where digital is concerned. Try it without the booster. Also the set top box will probably have a signal meter somewhere in the menus (maybe even a read out of the bit rate, errors, SNR etc.), see what it says.

After the switch over mine now reads 9-10 (i.e. almost full power) whereas before it was 6-7 at best.

Winter hill has been switched over for a few years now so problem would of occurred then and not reared its head now.

I'm my opinion it'll be the amplifier

CURED !!

It was a connection in an aerial cable extension joint in my loft. The female part of the joint had a white-ish surface film on it causing poor contact with the male connector.

Cleaned the joint up and it worked perfectly :thumb:

That white stuff looks like water getting in the system....

No water in the loft. Probably chemical reaction between 2 different metals.
If it goes again I can do nothing about it.
I won't be around, my house is now sold :)