Does this Foxsat HDR need replaced?

[Crystal21]

It’s worked fine for many years but now I’m having some problems. The channels sometimes show as ‘scrambled’ or ‘poor signal’ when they aren’t really. If I flick over to another channel and back again it works fine. Sometimes it fails to record or won’t record 2 shows at once unless I’m watching one of those channels. I’ve checked the signal and it’s showing as 100% across all bars. The dish setup is old but the box itself is much older. Does anyone know if it’s more likely to be a problem with the dish or the box?

 

[rolfw]

The older twin feed Freesat boxes will allow you to watch a channel from one multiplex, whilst recording another from a different multiplex and maybe two channels if they are on the same multiplex/transponder. some pictures of the recievr and the dish/LNB would probably be helpful. I've had cases where there was crosstalk on the LNB outputs, this caused no signal issues occasionally.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Disconnect all cable connectors and check for corrosion on the centre pins. Changing channels has the effect of pushing a different voltage down the line which can clean a path, but is only short term.

 

[Crystal21]

The dish is very high up so I can’t get photos of it. The cable connectors going into the box look ok to me but I’m clueless about these things. I can’t see any corrosion on them. I know I will probably have to get someone out to look at it eventually but I keep worrying that if I pay for a professional to call out and then it turns out there’s nothing he can do and the box just needs replaced, I’ll have wasted a lot of money.