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Well I bought an indoor aerial and can get all the channels perfectly, including several I couldn't even tune in before. Up to 138 odd channels now and it's all working perfectly. Signal quality is much better and occassionally the picture breaks up during bad weather but it;s only for a split second and miles better than the rubbish outdoor aerial that could barely manage the main channels and would often go dead for minutes.
I bought the One4All SV9395 as have had good experience with One4All kit previously. Works great and very happy with the results. Am based in Esher area.
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Hi MikeP,
I already connected directly to the aerial from the roof (it runs to a junction box inside the house) and although the picture is perfect there when I tested on the day, it still doesn't pick up half a dozen of the channels. I think the missing channels is because the aerial can't pick them up (I've never been able to tune them in properly) and either needs replacing for a wideband one or is not pointing in the right direction, perhaps because of bad weather knocking them askew. The picture dropping for channels I can receive does point to an internal cable problem but it's so intermittant and erratic that I've not the time or enthusiasm to spend hours trying to figure out what it is. The internal aerial works so much more reliably than the outdoor one with a much higher signal quality that there's no point trying to fix the outdoor one.
Cheers,
Vic
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Hi MikeP,
I mean an active splitter. The aerial runs first to an amplified signal booster (goes from 0 to 20db but changing attentuation makes no difference though) and then from there to a powered active splitter. The splitter is used to feed an aerial connection to several rooms.
I've connected a TV direct to the aerial in three places; before it goes to the booster, after the booster and before the splitter and then finally, directly after one of the splitters. There are still half a dozen channels missing and same results so I don't think it's that.
The wiring was all done professionally but was a long time ago. What I don't get is that the channels will be fine one day (although still a bunch missing - channel 33) and then other times a multiplex will be completely screwed although it always seems to be the same set of multiplexes (channels 22 and 30).
With the indoor aerial, everything works all the time with only very minor interference.
Cheers,
Vic
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Thursday 19 May 2016 8:09PM
Thanks MikeB, signal strength and quality varies all the time. Some days it'll be 100%, others it'll drop to barely 10%. Coax cables are all screened as are the wall plates. I'll try to test with an indoor aerial and see how that goes, I don't get why the channels are fine one day and then gone the next. If it was the external aerial deteriorating, surely it'd be getting worse and worse whereas tuning seems to be a lucky dip and sometimes I get 82 odd channels, other times it's 116.