Weird problem on Rowridge retune with Panasonic IDTV

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:25:49 +0100, Alan Pemberton wrote:
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I had a sudden relevation on Friday while reading about similar problems
elsewhere on the net (I spent most of Thursday and Friday trawling for
answers having had no luck with Digital UK). It is down to interference but
not due to the French this time. This won't help everyone but it sorted my
problem out and if it helps one other person, it's a start.
I have a two Sky boxes plumbed in to my system, both broadcasting on rf
channels, and a Sony VCR also with an rf output. This means that I can tune
the VCR into either Sky box, or indeed set it to a line input (my DVD player)
and watch my chosen program on any TV in the house. The Sky boxes set to
Channels 35 and 50 and the VCR to 60. The group of channels I couldn't get
was the main BBC one, Mux 1, which is now broadcasting on Channel 34. All
that was causing the problem was the Sky box set to Channel 35, which was
obviously causing just enough interference to block the incoming digital
signal. I've reset that one to Channel 45, safely clear of all the stuff
coming in from Rowridge, and as if by magic all my digital gear found Mux 1
again. I am back to pristine signal again across the board. I hadn't really
thought about interference, especially as a lot of the digital stuff comes
in on 32, 33 and 34 and they don't seem to interfere with each other but
there you go. Worth checking anyway. I also read in my trawl about channels
being blocked due to feedback on freakily unluckily lengthed aerial cables
(cable runs being odd multiples of a particular channels's wavelength) so
you can also try swapping cables around within your system I guess.

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"Richard Howlett" wrote in message
.. .
I have a two Sky boxes plumbed in to my system, both broadcasting on rf
channels, and a Sony VCR also with an rf output. This means that I can
tune
the VCR into either Sky box, or indeed set it to a line input (my DVD
player)
and watch my chosen program on any TV in the house. The Sky boxes set to
Channels 35 and 50 and the VCR to 60. The group of channels I couldn't get
was the main BBC one, Mux 1, which is now broadcasting on Channel 34.
A Sky box set to ch35 will wipe out ch34 completely because of the
unsupressed lower sideband.

Bill

"Richard Howlett" wrote in message
.. .
I have a two Sky boxes plumbed in to my system, both broadcasting on rf
channels, and a Sony VCR also with an rf output. This means that I can
tune
the VCR into either Sky box, or indeed set it to a line input (my DVD
player)
and watch my chosen program on any TV in the house. The Sky boxes set to
Channels 35 and 50 and the VCR to 60. The group of channels I couldn't get
was the main BBC one, Mux 1, which is now broadcasting on Channel 34.
A Sky box set to ch35 will wipe out ch34 completely because of the
unsupressed lower sideband.

Bill

In article , Richard
Howlett writes

Thanks for the suggestion Richard.
No Sky box here, so that isn't the problem but, just in case, unplugged
all other video gear. No change.

Update though - Panasonic have confirmed that they have had other,
similar reports following the Rowridge retune and think it "appears to
be due to various local transmissions" and are working on a fix. No
mention of what the local transmissions are though, so no idea if the
fix will fix it. We'll see.
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Richard Howlett wrote:
I had a sudden relevation on Friday while reading about similar problems
elsewhere on the net (I spent most of Thursday and Friday trawling for
answers having had no luck with Digital UK). It is down to interference but
not due to the French this time. This won't help everyone but it sorted my
problem out and if it helps one other person, it's a start.

Richard, I posted in this thread what turned out to be your problem at 12:28
on Friday, did you not notice it ?

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Stumbled across tonight, so suppose all your probs are solved. We had the
changeover weeks ago and my Panasonic is working fine. Suggest you initially
carry out a full retune with the aerial lead pulled out, then re-insert lead
before retuning for a second time. This may or not work, but it did the
trick for another of my IDTV's. (By the way, I'm 65, did all the necessary
retunes with 4 TV's and one box, so less of the ageism please!)

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