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we were away for a week last week, came back and TV showing only a handful of digital channels. Now dropped to no channels. Not a biggy as hardly watch any live TV but is mildly annoying.
Two TV's in two rooms, separate aerial leads converge on same aerial in the loft. Second TV is working fine. The only other thing off note is that there was a power cut whist we were away.
Final though, do mice nibble aerial cables? I have had issues with mice in the flat rook and their access to this will be via the wall cavity that the cable runs up.
Have you tried retuning the TV?
Is there a booster to that one TV that's died due to the power cut?
Swap the TVs and see if the issue moves with the TV.
Do mice nibble aerial cables? - yes
Have you tried retuning the TV? - Yes, it didn't help
Is there a booster to that one TV that’s died due to the power cut? - No
Swap the TVs and see if the issue moves with the TV. - Wall mounting makes this much harder than it should be. I think I have a super long aerial lead somewhere though so will try that.
Mice are currently Prime Suspect.
I've got a TV that works occasionally with all channels, sometimes just HD, sometimes very little of anything at all. retuning seems to makes no difference to how long it lasts. I though either dodgy connection or atmospherics!!
could be ghost for all the sense it makes
One of our neigbours has a TV aerial bent at 90 degrees, I keep wondering how on earth that happened given it's stuck up in the air above their chimney - something pretty heavy must have hit it.
Are you getting re-runs of Rod Hull and emu?
Mice are currently Prime Suspect.
They'd have to be fairly determined as they'd have to get through the outer, the shielding, then more plastic and finally the core cable before it would stop the signal!
In my experience they tend to just nibble at the outer.
Swap the TVs and see if the issue moves with the TV. – Wall mounting makes this much harder than it should be. I think I have a super long aerial lead somewhere though so will try that.
Borrow a TV to see if it tunes in OK using the cable/socket that is troublesome.
We have/had a problem where when the leaves drop on the trees the signal level increases and results in too much signal and the picture gets worse. This with an amp that has 1 output that is a lot higher than the others.
Also a neighbour had a problem where the connection into the wall socket was poor and the signal was lost there.
Has it been wet? Water in the coax can really bugger the signal. Lid could have popped off the terminal box on the aerial or self-amalgamating tape might have come off/never been fitted originally.
Aerial is in the loft and all cabling internal so not impacted by weather
Anyways, retuned TV tonight for fourth time and all eleventy billion channels returned. So mice are off the hook as clearly it must be ghosts.
Lid could have popped off the terminal box on the aerial or self-amalgamating tape might have come off/never been fitted originally.
And if this was the case it would have affected both TVs - which it didn't.
So mice are off the hook as clearly it must be ghosts.
or a potentially dodgy connection which may or may not return. Most likely ghosts though.