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Help required-lost signal with freeview & sky

Hi, I was hoping someone could give me advice.

From my sky box I have a lead that runs to my tv upstairs
Also from my sky dish I have a lead that runs to my tv in my study so that I can view whatever is no the main sky box (located in my lounge)
Also on my main Tv in my lounge I have freeview as well as sky.

All 3 'services' were running fine unitl last week.

I am no getting nothing feeding through to either my bedroom or study and I am getting 'no signal' as a message on freeview.

I have lost 3 seperate services in one go, they obviously must be connected in some way and any ideas or advice would be grealty appreciated.

many thanks

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  • gjchester
    gjchester Posts: 5,741 Forumite
    Go look at the Aeriel and Dish, have them moved from where the should point, (look at neighbours houses).

    with regard to your equipment how are they connected to the relevent aeriels?

    Have you got any signal boosters or distribution amplifiers anywhere in the house? You can't run a lead from a Sky dish to a direct to TV without a reciever box (or a reciever in the TV), so to watch whatever you get on the Sky reciever must be sent out to the 2nd TV via a cable in the sky reciever not from the Sky dish..

    What you need to do is work out the wiring so you can connect the Sky reciever direct to the dish with no more electronics in the way to try and check the cabling and the LNB (the bit on the end of the dish arm). The fact you've lost everythiong suggests an amp has lost power somewhere rather than a failure in electronics.
    The same applies to the Freeview box, attatch it direct to the aeriel and check it's OK that way.
  • Moneymaker
    Moneymaker Posts: 1,984 Forumite
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    noff wrote: »
    Also from my sky dish I have a lead that runs to my tv in my study so that I can view whatever is no the main sky box (located in my lounge)

    You are mistaken. The dish feed has to go to a satellite TV receiver. It can't go direct to a TV (unless the TV has a satellite receiver built-in).

    The wiring should be as follows:

    Sky Digibox Scart to adjacent TV.
    Dish LNB connection to Sky Digibox.
    Aerial to Freeview box.
    Freeview box RF out to Sky Digibox aerial in.
    Sky Digibox RF2 out to bedroom TV.
  • gjchester
    gjchester Posts: 5,741 Forumite
    Moneymaker wrote: »
    The wiring should be as follows:

    The OP has the Sky out to 3 TV's. My guess is they are seperate

    Dish >> SKY RX >> RF >> Lounge TV

    Aeriel >> Lounge TV

    Somewhere along the line there is also a splitter to push the signal from the Sky box to the other 2 TV's and I guess a distribution amp somewhere

    I'm awaiting more comments from the OP..
  • deejayen
    deejayen Posts: 125 Forumite
    As said we need more info --- Has your tv got freeview built in because a lot of freeview boxes only have Scart o/p [the rf out is just a loop through] - however some do have a rf tuner as well -- the o/p for the "external tv's" can be covered by the 2 RF o/p sockets on the sky box -- we have to get info from the OP to connect the I/P to the sky box -- dave
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