Thread: Bad Signal in a Good Signal Area
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Old 26-04-2023, 11:35   #3
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Re: Bad Signal in a Good Signal Area
You may be in a good signal area, but to drive the amount of coaxial cable required to service 3 TVs is pushing it unless you have line of sight to the transmitting mast. Is the splitter indoors or up next to the aerial? An internal splitter will not perform as well as one near the source. Any powered splitter is better externally fitted & powered through the coax.

Boosters have their own issues as they induce noise (as you have already found out). The BBC B HD mux is the highest frequency broadcast from Pontop Pike, so this mux failing is symptomatic of a high noise level in the coax.

So, I would be getting your aerial installer in again. I hope he wasn't one of the cheap & nasty brigade. CAI+ approved outfits are usually more dependable than the "guy down the road".

If you have not got line of sight to the transmitter consider, 1) whether a taller mast would be advantageous. Even a few feet of height in some locations can double the signal received at the masthead. 2) A powered masthead splitter, with as much as possible equal legs of coax going to where the TV sets are located.
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