sky plus box RF out problem

rafared

Hi folks.
I have an issue with my sky plus HD box maybe somebody can shed some light on. Basically the RF out connection which feeds a bedroom tv seems to fail every day or two leading to the bedroom tv having to be retuned. The problem can usually be solved by changing the RF out channel in the sky box menu and then retuning the upstairs TV. However this does not always work and can need 5 or 6 changes of output chanel on the skybox before it solves the problem. Two days later its back to square one with maybe a picture/no sound or a high pitched whistle on the upstairs TV. Cue more retuning to solve the problem which now seems to be not to work at all. Now channels which worked before wont work now.
I have tried with a different tv connected to either RF out puts of the box and the problem is the same so I know the internal house coax wiring and bedroom tv are not the problem.

steveon

Do you have just one one room connected via the magic eye or is there an amplifier feeding a number of rooms, could be a faulty tuner in the sky box perhaps.?

Ronnie Raygun

rafared wrote: »

I have tried with a different tv connected to either RF out puts of the box and the problem is the same so I know the internal house coax wiring and bedroom tv are not the problem.

Must be the modulator in the Sky box drifting off-channel.

rafared

steveon wrote: »

Do you have just one one room connected via the magic eye or is there an amplifier feeding a number of rooms, could be a faulty tuner in the sky box perhaps.?

Just one room, no magic eye. Just tend to use the bedroom tv at night and the box goes into standby after two hours.
The skybox works fine otherwise.
This evening I happened to have the tv on upstairs watching the football while I got changed and the sound went along with the picture quality by half all of a sudden.

rafared

Ronnie Raygun wrote: »

Must be the modulator in the Sky box drifting off-channel.[/quote
As in a fault with the box itself? Can that be repaired or can I get Sky to replace the box?

steveon

I had a similar problem recently I ended up using a triax tr-link to solve the problem.

rafared

steveon wrote: »

I had a similar problem recently I ended up using a triax tr-link to solve the problem.

Thanks for the heads up. Going to ask the obvious question now....what is a triax tr-link?

Ronnie Raygun

Tri-Link is a standalone modulator that will replace the on-board Sky box one. I don't know if anyone bothers with repairs.

Strange that a thread dealing with a Sky box problem hasn't yet attracted replies advising you to get onto Sky & see what they'll do for you ...

steveon

Sky wont do anything for that as the box is working fine in the main room, there attitude to secondary rooms is pay for another sub...and is proven with all there new boxes in which you need an i/o link or tri-link for secondary rooms.

rafared

Thanks for the help guys. Will look into getting a seperate system to run a feed upstairs. I had thought at first that Sky might have set up the RF outputs to fail somehow.
Any idea of the ballpark cost for a seperate module?

byte

http://www.tvtrade.ie/triax-trilink-kit.html Is the Triax Tri-Link, if that's what you mean.

Available on satellite.ie and probably others also.