No Freeview channels

Joshua J

Hi all, been having problems. The mother bought new TV today for her bedroom, it has freeview digital reciver installed but when I connect to aerial all I can get are Irish channels and they are very jumpy, must be bad signal.

Now she got a digital aerial installed around 6-7 years ago and could get the freeview channels but shortly after got sky in so hasn't been an issue cause havn't looked to use it until today.

Would the sky insatllation effect the aerial?. Should the aerial still pick up the stations?. Would a new aerial help?.

Any ideas?.

coylemj

Where are you and is the aerial indoor or in the attic or on the roof? Does the TV claim to be Saorview approved?

Freeview refers to the UK channels that you can receive over the air i.e. from a terrestrial transmitter. Do you know which transmitter she was receiving them from?

I might as well say before anyone else - there is no such thing as a 'digital' aerial, what you need and probably have is a UHF aerial but the switch to digital TV happened in those 6-7 years so she may need a new aerial because the channels all changed and it's possible that the aerial she had was optimized for the old channels.

Ronnie Raygun

Joshua J wrote: »

Now she got a digital aerial installed around 6-7 years ago and could get the freeview channels but shortly after got sky in so hasn't been an issue cause havn't looked to use it until today.

Would the sky insatllation effect the aerial?. Should the aerial still pick up the stations? Would a new aerial help?

The Freeview signal should be much improved from 6 or 7 years ago.

The Sky installation would only be a factor if the aerial is routed via the Sky box RF input/outputs, so the Sky box output can be viewed in other rooms. The Sky installer may have "hijacked" the aerial distribution system for this purpose, leaving the actual aerial disconnected.

Does the main tv still have Freeview reception?

Joshua J

coylemj wrote: »

Where are you and is the aerial indoor or in the attic or on the roof? Does the TV claim to be Saorview approved?

Freeview refers to the UK channels that you can receive over the air i.e. from a terrestrial transmitter. Do you know which transmitter she was receiving them from?

I might as well say before anyone else - there is no such thing as a 'digital' aerial, what you need and probably have is a UHF aerial but the switch to digital TV happened in those 6-7 years so she may need a new aerial because the channels all changed and it's possible that the aerial she had was optimized for the old channels.

Letterkenny. Aerial is on the roof and i think we're getting the Limavady feed but am not 100% on that.

Joshua J

Ronnie Raygun wrote: »

The Freeview signal should be much improved from 6 or 7 years ago.

The Sky installation would only be a factor if the aerial is routed via the Sky box RF input/outputs, so the Sky box output can be viewed in other rooms. The Sky installer may have "hijacked" the aerial distribution system for this purpose, leaving the actual aerial disconnected.

Does the main tv still have Freeview reception?

We have 2 sky boxes, one was moved from the "Granny Flat" to the kitchen bout 3 years ago. The sony Bravia only gets irish channels sound only but no picture, its a few years old so prob not calibrated for saorview and the newer tv in kitchen only gets bad quality saorview. The prob may have originated after the sky swap out, dunno.

Ronnie Raygun

If there is a system for distributing the aerial signal to different rooms, I would look for the distribution point (maybe in the attic) & see if the cable coming in from the aerial is still connected to the splitter or distribution amplifier.

Is the Sky box output selectable as an analogue channel on any tvs that don't have their own Sky box?

Ronnie Raygun

coylemj wrote: »

... what you need and probably have is a UHF aerial but the switch to digital TV happened in those 6-7 years so she may need a new aerial because the channels all changed and it's possible that the aerial she had was optimized for the old channels.

The only significant "changes" I'm aware of were our own Three Rock & Mt. Leinster reverting to channels in their analogue frequency group. The Freeview signals receivable in Ireland can still all be picked up on the same type aerials that have been used for more than 40 years.