TV Signal in a flat with IRS

jcartlidge

Help! I live in a flat and recieve my tv signal through an IRS signal, whilst not knowing a great deal about these i know the basic's (or so i think)

We have a 5 point plate on the wall and for the past year have been running the aeriel from the TV output into a freeview box. This has given us about half of the available channels. Having recently lost my rag with watching BBC 1 and 2 through a poorly recieved analogue signal i have tried to get the full range of channels.

I have bought a triax outlet link but all this has seemed to do is provide signal to another output plate in the main bedroom. I have not been picking up any new channels! I have tried running the signal directly to the TV which has integrated freeview and then through a freeview box but to no joy.

Can anybody help? (and did my post make much sense?)

What i don't understand is that having spoke to neighbours they have the full array of channels, how come i don't being as we are all running from the system aerial?!?!

totalsolutions

not much sense to me however, IRS lost me straight away Is this a shared sat aerial or terrestial aerial?
5 point plate please explain I would expect 1 RF (TV) outlet not 5!
Triax outlet dunno!?

If your neighbours signals are ok I would look at the signal cable from the IRS? to the 5 point plate?, inparticular cable unplugged / shorted and cable ends termination.
HTH

jcartlidge

Thanks for the response, IRS is a shared sat aerial that allows access to freeview this also acts as the shared terrestrial aerial also.

The 5 point plate has two co-axial outs with 3 standard aerial outputs. I have hooked the outlet link up as per the instructions but no more channels.

I really want to make sure i am not missing something obvious before i get in an expert as i am not the most techincal person (bet you couldn't tell from my posts!!!)

penrhyn

Integrated Reception Systems

Sounds like you have two satellite dish feeds ( screw on connectors), so you could connect to a Sky + box, and three terrestrial aerial feeds, its possible I guess that one of them is for FM radio, one for TV and maybe the fifth is for DAB, are they not marked?

Your TV will have both analog and digital tuners, you are presently using the analog one.
So what happens when you connect your freeview TV to one of the terrestrial sockets.and run a digital autotune.

jcartlidge

That is right, i have the two Sat feeds then beneath them three other feeds (TV, Radio and Return)

I have run the terrestrial socket to the TV but still recieve the limited array of freeview channels (this is the case if i run the aerial to the TV direct and if i run it to the freeview box and then into the tv)

Is it possible that my signal is different to my neighbours who recieve all the freeview channels?

kwikbreaks

jcartlidge wrote: »

I have run the terrestrial socket to the TV but still recieve the limited array of freeview channels (this is the case if i run the aerial to the TV direct and if i run it to the freeview box and then into the tv)

Is it possible that my signal is different to my neighbours who recieve all the freeview channels?

If you are getting channels other than bbc1 bbc2 itv ch4 and ch5 off that feed then it isn't direct from an antenna or a distribution amp sending just the standard antenna signal so the chances of it carrying any proper digital (freeview) signals are poor unless of course you have a DVB TV in which case you don't need a freeview box. It may be that it is carrying a range of freeview channels as analogue and all you need to do is tune them in.

I've no idea what your neighbours get or do but as you live closer to them than I do I'd suggest you ask them.


I'll try to make this clearer by stating how it usually works...

Analogue TV carries only the 5 main channels. Sometimes you can get a signal from more than one transmitter so 2 ITVs are possible.

Freeview is digital. To see anything at all you need either a TV with an inbuilt DVB tuner or a settop box.

What is currently being transmitted is both analogue and digital and a "real" antenna downlead will carry both types of signal.

I have no idea what your coax is delivering but it could be entirely analogue with extra analogue channels used to carry programming such as bbc3 itv2 etc.