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Niall
 
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Default Digital set-top boxes (slightly O/T) - weak signal area.

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:40:11 +0000, "Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)"
wrote:

In article , Niall
wrote:

It is a very good idea to replace the nasty old cheap brown co-ax with
decent low loss cable.


If you need to. If you get 100% signal on all muxes, why bother.


Because the HF loss is greater than decent cable, but mostly because the
screening of ordinary cable is inadequate to keep pulse interference out,
which can lead to breakup.


So if it happens, change the cable. But freeview *can* work perfectly
well without an enormous aerial array and CT100 all over the place.
If you have a reasonable analogue picture, it will probably work fine.

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Niall