My Fre...evi...ew...kee...ps....breaki...

[real4star]

ng up. Moved in February, set up my 4 year old 38inch HD flatscreen with Freeview built in and a new (4 months ago) aerial with booster (aimed in the same direction as everyone elses).

Its fine between 9am and 8:30/9pm, then the signal starts to drop and breaking up. Then around 10pm I lose everything 'Service Not Running No Signal' (except E4+1 and ITV1)

Starting to piss me off cause I don't watch much and what I do watch is on after 8pm

So far I've missed out on the end of all the new TopGears, the last NCIS, Archer (last night) and the Blackadder repeats.

I know 4G is supposed to fk up digital reception but I don't think it only does it after 9pm... so WTF is going on?

[JM]

Sounds strange that it appears time related.

Have a look on here and see if that's mentioned.

https://at800.tv/find-out-more/

[trashbat]

What happens if you cut out the booster?

[real4star]

I lose everything if I cut the booster. It affects the DAB radio as well

And thanks for the link

Edited by real4star on Tuesday 16th July 15:40

[trashbat]

I ask because I had very similar problems, and got a local TV expert to sort it. It turns out we had an active splitter for two rooms (possibly analogue era) in the loft that was unpowered, although he also commented that boosters etc can be too high powered and ruin the signal that way. He chopped it out and everything is fine now - although in the end we don't watch TV so didn't renew our license!

[Eric Mc]

Could be down to the current High Pressure we are experiencing.

With old analogue radio and TV you would get cross channel interference during periods of high pressure. With digital it may manifest itself as cutting out of signal and break up of picture.

[real4star]

I asked a neighbour if it affects them, they said no.

But suggested it could be a solar flare?... happens around the same time every night as the earth completes a rotation through an affected area in its path of orbit

I'll try and get an at800 filter and see if that works.

[noone986s]

Possible red herring but we were getting a similar situation, breaking up at similar times on many channels. I suddenly realised that it was happening at the same time as the nipper went to bed and after we switched on the baby monitor. It was weird but if the monitor is on I get break ups, if not its fine. I looked at the signal strength meter in the TV setup menu and it was all over the place with the monitor on, solid 100% when not.

Might be worth checking if you or a neighbour has anything similar interfering with the signal.

Edited by noone986s on Wednesday 24th July 17:43

[real4star]

I did check for interference (the wireless signal to my laptop from the old BT Home Hub was the worst offender)
An indoor aerial, manual retune and a 800mhz filter seems to have cured it.

I have aluminium venetian blinds and the aerial is on a window sill. If the blind by the aerial is left open the aerial stops receiving (I'm assuming the blind is acting as a reflector )

But it works so I'll leave it be

[leafspring]

Update

The 800 filter helped a little

BUT judging by the pixilation, lack of sound, wisp of smoke and smell of hot plastic tonight it would appear the main culprit was the TV being past its best




(yes I changed my user name)