Hi, I live in whangaparaoa, and have just purchased a dse dvb-t box. I was told by a few people that signal is patchy in my area, but I still wanted to give it a go. Freeview website says I am likely to get signal with high aerial.

I have connected the box, but have had no luck in scanning channels.

When I go into the manual scan section, when selecting 29,33,45 I get something like 90-100% signal 70-90% quality, but this only lasts for 3-5seconds, then goes to 0% for both for a second or so. 

I wondered if this was due to my masthead amp overloading the box. I dnt have an attenuator, so I put the signal thru a 2 way and 8 way splitter, to try and drop the strength. This brought down the values when it was showing signal, particularly the quality, but, still bounced back and forth from 0%.

I then turned down the gain adjustment on my ellis masthead amp, which also had little effect.
My aerial is a 91 el yagi, only a year old, rg6 throughout. Prime is watchable, but snowy, trackside is better, maori a little worse.

Has anyone experienced this problem before, and have any advice, or should I give up and take the box back for a sat one?


Thanks,
Brett