"N Cook" wrote in message
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skyclad wrote in message
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With freeview on air you need to have a clean signal no ghosting and
not too weak and not too strong. You may find an attenuator may help to
stop the box locking up. I had a similar problem with a Pace unit which
was fixed by a 6db attenuator. The cable needs to be proper 75ohm
Lowloss as well. If your using old cable its worth changing.

http://www.sunseekerit.co.uk


So you've seen exactly this latch up to zero sound and vision on a
different
make ?
With this one it coincided with the same week removing a mains powered
aerial booster that was still there for getting a viewable but not perfect
weekest analogue UHF signal ( the digital version is now perfect) , the
partial dropouts on the week digital channels became much improved but it
would seem the strong digital channels could become prone to this total
dropout problem.

Several digital TV channels are transmitted on one digital multiplex so
whatever effects the multiplex usually effects all the channels on that
multiplex. How many transmitters are within range of southampton? Is it
possible that the weak channels are actually coming from a multiplex on the
"wrong" transmitter? If so try looking for a better version of the same TV
channels coming from the right transmitter..

Enter post code here to get details of the transmitters you might be seeing.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/coverage.html