All posts by Alan Brown
Below are all of Alan Brown's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Alan Brown: JB and Stephen P. Many thanks for your comments. The aerial is a Labgear Megaboost with 16db amplifier as sold by Maplins, Argos etc. under various names. The batteries were always the first item blamed and changed. Problem not resolved. The aerial is mounted on poles which can be extended above height of boat and in some instances this resolves the problem. With improved signal remote functions return, tv operates as it should as channels can be retuned if necessary. In marina we must be near a transmitter as aerial does not need to be erected above roof of boat may even work off indoor aerial as signal so strong. This evening moored up good picture when tv turned on tried to change channel using remote. Nothing. Spent a few minutes trying to get remote to retune channels. Nothing. Went outside moved aerial around a bit and bingo return of use of remote and is fine. I am always aware of area we are mooring up whether we are in high, low area, in dense trees etc. If we are desperate for tv we make sure we are in area where we should have no problem with reception. Its the fact that we cannot operate the remote to retune stations that is the main problem we are trying to resolve. Do we have a ghost ship? Tried a Four in One remote same problem.
| link to this comment |
Alan Brown: JB38-Whilst I am pretty sure we have checked aerial signal bypassing the amplifier as you have described I will recheck as you have stated just need to check what connectors I have on boat. One point that I hadn't mentioned was that the tv's source of 240 volt power is a 3kw Sterling Inverter. Could this have any effect on reception?
| link to this comment |
Friday 5 October 2012 9:22PM
Northampton
We have a Hitachi TV with Freeview. This is installed on our narrow boat. We tend to cruise in areas covered by Central and Anglia often on the limits to transmission. When we need to retune we have a lot of difficulty operating the remote control to enable us to switch regions. Is the fact that our reception is poor the reason that the remote control does not respond?