Aerial Signal and Humax box ?

[J4CKO]

My grandma has a Humax box and asked me to set it up, it worked but where she had decent signal strength on the telly, when the same aerial was in the box it managed BBC1 and 2 but said the signal wasnt good enough on the others ?

Tried tuning it using the auto tune feature to no avail ?

Does she need to get he aerial guy out ?

[megaphone]

You are going in the IN and not the OUT?

[bristolracer]

Aerial to input of humax box
From output of humax box to TVs in

Ensure rf loop through is switched on in humax menu if applicable

If tv is still working fine then re tune humax.
Depending on model of box you may need to reset the box to factory defaults to force a full retune

[jmorgan]

Also.
If the aerial lead is direct to the TV and you can tune in all channels for a digital transmitter (some fill in transmitters do not have the full channel list), is there an option on the TV menu to check the signal strength?

This may help
https://ukfree.tv/prediction

Not easy to navigate but find your transmitter and you should get what channel list you can see. Pop the post code in.

[AC43]

I had this recently.

The signal from the roof mounted aerial was OK for the TV tuner (just) but not good enough for the Humax box.

I swapped it for a Freesat one (there's also a dish on the place I've bought*).

• actually there are no less that three aerials and two dishes stuck on the side of the house - I think I'll hang an England flag out of one of the front windows to complete the styling

[telecat]

I seem to have this problem on one of our aerials. To fix it I have to make my own Aerial cables which is odd as if you buy in a Good one it should be OK. The cables go into wall sockets on these so maybe there is something about carrying the earth that custom cables miss??

[J4CKO]

Popping round this weekend so will try the suggestions made, cheers all, will report back.

[telecat]

Just had to "remake" a cable tonight. The Signal strength and quality was really low. Trimmed everything and the Shield looked a little ragged. Now have good strength and medium quality which does the job.