All posts by Sam
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Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitterSunday 11 November 2012 6:26PM
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Thanks jb38 for your response. The 2 boxes are Bush BU10FVZS1 MMB89202813 only actually bought August 2012 from Argos and an Argos special DV3T Digital Set Top Box CDVB51N Home Retail Group Mk9 2NW bought August 2011. The latter one did work brilliantly since our switchover in ?August 2011 till Sept 12, the Bush has only worked on and off since purchase, more off than on. We have an outside aerial plus a booster box in the loft. My post code is ST14 8LJ. Hope you can help.
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Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitterSunday 18 November 2012 3:54PM
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Hi jb38, Thanks again for the info, I have checked the mux channel nos & yes we are receiving from Waltham. Our booster box is SLX8 8 way aerial amplifier. The signal level for BBC 1 is around 52% at this moment 2.30pm I'm sure at other times it will be less as we are receiving a picture of sorts at this time whereas very often there is nothing, couldn't receive anything for ITV 1 and 48% for ITV 3. The Bush box will not let me do a manual retune but the Argos one will, but after that still no change, I followed all the instructions from BBC reception advice for that, unplugging etc. The newest TV is a Toshiba 22DV501B LCD TV DVD Combi. I know what you say about you get what you pay for with the Argos box but it has been working fantastically for the last year until Sept 12. Your help would be really appreciated.Thanks Regards Sam
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Hi jb, thanks for the suggestions. We are one of the few receiving from Waltham in our area. We now know our set top boxes work, someone has tested them in another area for us. This last week, (since the floods - no connection I'm sure) we have lost signals to all TV's and can only watch one thro sky. Info above says signal liable to interuption this week! However we have been trying different things to try and solve our problem and have taken the newest TV into the loft and connected it direct to the main aerial without using the amp box and it works on most channels perfectly, but some, think 57 scrambled, so now we are not sure if our amp box is the problem. Think we may try just an 8 way splitter box for all the aerials instead of a booster, what do you think? Or if not what brand of booster would you recommend? As you say it is obviously difficult to diagnose the problem when Waltham are still doing work, but others don't seem to be experiencing our problems so it surely must be our equipment? We are really getting fed up with not being able to watch any TV in other rooms. If the splitter or new box doesn't work then I suppose we will have to call on an aerial chap, but would like to avoid that cost if at all possible. Thanks Regards Sam
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Sunday 11 November 2012 1:54PM
We have 2 set top boxes with older TV's and these have not been working properly since around 19.09.12, most of the time there is no signal other times v.bad pixellation, they had worked perfectly for the last year since swithover in our area, apparantly we receive from the Waltham transmitter. No amount of retuning etc solves the problems. A new TV works fine in each of these sockets, any idea why now the problems with the set top boxes?