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Dodgy happenings with distro system
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<blockquote data-quote="il_cacciatore" data-source="post: 424126" data-attributes="member: 264607"><p>Hello. </p><p></p><p>I have a satellite dish that we use to receive and watch Hotbird for the foreign channels. I decided that it would be good to pipe the satellite around the house as well as ordinary TV so I bought a Labgear HDU681S Distribution System that gives us the option to hook up CCTV and radio plus enable us in the future to connect Sky+ etc. </p><p></p><p>Installed all the cables with RG6 except the cable from the aerial with ordinary coaxial and all connections with F-connectors ensuring no touching central and outer wires. No cables are running further than about 17m lengths. </p><p></p><p>We live in a low reception area due to the fact that we are on the 'shadowed' side of a hill from the freeview enabled transmitters coupled with the fact that there are huge trees in front too, none of our close neighbours can get digital but only ch 1 - 4 from a repeater mast that is in good view. Therefore we bought the Televes DAT75 aerial which seems to get us a signal strength of 45-55% with low bit error levels of 1. When we connect this aerial directly into a television we get good reception of both analogue and digital but when it is plugged into the labgear we can only get good digital with no analogue. <span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black">Thats problem </span>number one.</span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black">The Labgear has the ability to be used without forwarding the satellite signal to the other wallplates with the use of a switch which can either be set to 'SAT' or 'UHF & CCTV'. With the satellite receiver plugged in and it set to 'SAT' we loose reception in all other wallplates but when its set to 'UHF & CCTV' it functions normally. When I bridge the distribution system with connecting a cable from Down and Up link with the switch set to 'SAT'<span style="color: Black">, TV reception is normal in the other wall plates, when I bridge the wallplate with a cable with the distro box still set to 'SAT' then no reception can be received in the other wallplates. Thats problem <span style="color: Red">number two.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Red"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black">My theory is problem no. one is attributed to a faulty distro. system and that no. two is a faulty wallplate. I'm</span> <span style="color: Black">new to these sort of systems but didn't think they could be so annoying. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black">Anyone any ideas on what could be the problems? Any help is much appreciated. Hopefully we can get this system fixed and forget about it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black">Thanks. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></span> </span> </span></p><p></p><p>P.S Chances are I've posted this in the wrong section :S</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="il_cacciatore, post: 424126, member: 264607"] Hello. I have a satellite dish that we use to receive and watch Hotbird for the foreign channels. I decided that it would be good to pipe the satellite around the house as well as ordinary TV so I bought a Labgear HDU681S Distribution System that gives us the option to hook up CCTV and radio plus enable us in the future to connect Sky+ etc. Installed all the cables with RG6 except the cable from the aerial with ordinary coaxial and all connections with F-connectors ensuring no touching central and outer wires. No cables are running further than about 17m lengths. We live in a low reception area due to the fact that we are on the 'shadowed' side of a hill from the freeview enabled transmitters coupled with the fact that there are huge trees in front too, none of our close neighbours can get digital but only ch 1 - 4 from a repeater mast that is in good view. Therefore we bought the Televes DAT75 aerial which seems to get us a signal strength of 45-55% with low bit error levels of 1. When we connect this aerial directly into a television we get good reception of both analogue and digital but when it is plugged into the labgear we can only get good digital with no analogue. [COLOR=Red][COLOR=Black]Thats problem [/COLOR]number one. [COLOR=Black]The Labgear has the ability to be used without forwarding the satellite signal to the other wallplates with the use of a switch which can either be set to 'SAT' or 'UHF & CCTV'. With the satellite receiver plugged in and it set to 'SAT' we loose reception in all other wallplates but when its set to 'UHF & CCTV' it functions normally. When I bridge the distribution system with connecting a cable from Down and Up link with the switch set to 'SAT'[COLOR=Black], TV reception is normal in the other wall plates, when I bridge the wallplate with a cable with the distro box still set to 'SAT' then no reception can be received in the other wallplates. Thats problem [COLOR=Red]number two. [COLOR=Black]My theory is problem no. one is attributed to a faulty distro. system and that no. two is a faulty wallplate. I'm[/COLOR] [COLOR=Black]new to these sort of systems but didn't think they could be so annoying. Anyone any ideas on what could be the problems? Any help is much appreciated. Hopefully we can get this system fixed and forget about it. :cool: Thanks. [/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] [/COLOR] [/COLOR] P.S Chances are I've posted this in the wrong section :S [/QUOTE]
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