Hi need some help.
20 questions.. :)
I have recently purchased a lg 42" HD ready plasma for the bedroom, freeviewHD box from dicksmith $299 and a diplexer, and splitter (dicksmith products)
I have a sky dish which we dont currently subscribe to (and probably wont for a long time) a seperate vhf and uhf aerial. Im assuming we have a uhf and vhf because they look very different to each other and googling pictures of similar aerials appear to confirm this.
i connected the uhf and vhf to a hardwired diplexer inside the house. (commonly seen mounted outside) and run a single coax cable to a splitter to go to 2 tv's in 2 different locations. one old rear projection in the lounge and plasma in bedroom.
researching suggests one freeview box for one tv and cannot be used for multiple tvs unless you watch the same channel, or freeview pre built into the tv - please correct me if im wrong.
my signal now is crap on both tv's and led to believe the diplexer or my wiring is dodgey. I was told today from a old sparky to test the coaxil wiring with a multimeter and check the ohms. should read 0. i done this which one came out 0 and the other cable at reading at 33.5 or something and sky reading at over 200+ ?
does this sound correct ?
since connecting the freeview box to TV via hdmi cable with the splitter extended via coax cable to the freeview box in bedroom, it could not pick up any channels.
i resorted to the nasty old bunny ears which picked up a tv1, 2, 6,7 but not tv3 or any others.
we are zoned for the freeview (which i did reset to factory settings and started fresh which didnt resolve other channels being picked up via menu console)
im waying up if i should pay for a new uhf dish ? or atleast reposition it and run new cable and test. is there anything i could do to test and confirm it will be compatible with my hdfreeview or should i resort in returning the unit and get a freeview box that runs of my sky dish ?
need some suggestions or help please..
could my duplixer be faulty ? or ive done something stupid. may be something obvious here, but i did check y wiring to make sure it was good and tight. i should note that the vhf cable was black and the uhf was a white coax cable which the shielding inside was all sticky when stripping the cable to fit the duplixer and spliiter.
I am a diy person, which dont want to give into a professional fixing this if i can help it.
Cheers