Beach Hut
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All the TVs upstairs stopped working last night so I assume we have possibly an aerial problem. We have a splitter box in the loft which has no power is it the actual aerial that is faulty ?
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Mileoakman
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Aerials don't just stop working, (unless its blown off the roof!), so its more likely to be a cable problem, connection to or from the splitter box problem or a disconnection somewhere in the cable run.
Dave the OAP
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Why have you got a Aerial? It's all digital now
GOM
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seagullsovergrimsby
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You need an aerial to pick up Digital Terrestrial Television (otherwise known as Freeview)
Hove Seagull
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Maybe it's to do with the launch of 4g phone signals in the area. We were sent a filter thing in the post to plug into the aerial socket.
Edit: ignore that, I just tried unplugging the filter and it still works fine.
Edit: ignore that, I just tried unplugging the filter and it still works fine.
portslade seagull
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Lost my signal from my Aerial months ago, watch everthing thru sky now. think some of mine is due to the area
Shropshire Seagull
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remove / isolate the splitter and route one of the TV's cable direct to the aerial.
If still no picture, points to an aerial problem, else a possible splitter failure.
If still no picture, points to an aerial problem, else a possible splitter failure.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?
spongy
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Try to isolate the problem. Bypass the splitter and plug a tv straight into the aerial feed, and try different TVs from different ports on the splitter. That way you can isolate problems. Are the TV(s) downstairs working? try all the combinations and you can narrow the problem down.
The other possibility is a vermin one. Rats and mice love chewing on cables. Check the whole lengths of the cables and check for teeth marks.
The other possibility is a vermin one. Rats and mice love chewing on cables. Check the whole lengths of the cables and check for teeth marks.
Dave the OAP
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Aaaah. I wondered why there was so many tv aerials left on roofs.
I thought they had to be round though, like those ones for fm radios a while back.
So although I have cable, if I plugged my aerial cable into the telly, and my telly is "free view ready", should I just get able to pick up local tv then?
spongy
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In theory yes, depends on difference between "freeview ready" and "freeview built in". I think that freeview ready just literally means the set can receive digital signals, and a separate digi box is needed, if it's built in the set has the encoder built in so setting it up and tuning it is a piece of cake.
That's my understanding of it anyway. I may be completely off track here....
Just one point to remember that an unamplified splitter will reduce your signal by the number of outputs of the splitter, so two outputs will reduce each output by 50%, three outputs will give you only 33.3% signal for each output. You are much better off with one with an amplified splitter.
Disconnected my aerial last year with house renovation work going on. I have about 4 outlets around the house and what I assume is a booster box. I meant to reconnect it, but can't really see the point now. We have two Virgin boxes and multiple devices able to stream different things. Freeview is a bit hit and miss in terms of reception and I seemed to always be having to retune everything.
surrey jim
Not in Surrey
Whatever you do, dont do a Rod Hull fixing it.