Hi, and apologies for not acknowledging your reply sooner, but I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to get to the bottom of the problem, and then wanted to allow some time to check if what I found was indeed the cause.
First off many thanks for your comprehensive response as to what I needed to check and try.
I made sure the HDMI cable was not touching both the RF IN and RF OUT, and at first I thought (probably imagined) that things had improved. This was around 8 to 9am Saturday morning, but as time passed and I tried auto scanning of broadcast channels (trying both United Kingdom and Other Region settings) it became clear that things hadn't really improved.
When checking 'Signal Strength' on Aura on numerous occasions, the signal strength was always showing as 100%, whilst the 'Signal Quality' was jumping about all over the place like a yo-yo, somewhere between 0% and at best approx 20%, and often attempting to stabilise at around 10%. Bearing mind what you said about the poorer quality tuners fitted to the Aura, that was most likely the cause of my issues.
All the while the tuner on our LG tv was working fine, however, the small and very old Samsung 19" tv in the kitchen has also been displaying a lot of picture and sound breakup at around (I think) the time the Aura started playing up. I was finding it difficult to try and narrow down the exact cause of the problem, and had in fact ordered an internal aerial, which arrived on Friday evening, for me to try and ascertain whether I really did have some sort of issue with the external aerial. I managed to get the tv (SD only) in the kitchen back to working as it should using the internal aerial, but was unable to get a good enough signal to test on the Aura or direct to the LG as the cable run just wasn't quite enough to allow me to physically place it where I'd had it when trying the Samsung tv.
I was fast running out of ideas, but as we have 4 aerial sockets throughout the property, 1 UHF and 1VHF where Aura and LG are, 1 UHF for the Samsung in the kitchen, and 1 unused in a bedroom, I decided to take a look at the Labgear 4 Way Distribution Amplifier in the loft. After a lot of swapping around of outputs, which made no difference, I by-passed the box completely and just connected the aerial to the UHF feed to the the Aura and LG.
BINGO!!! Now all working fine with 98% and 100% 'Signal Strength' and 'Signal Quality' respectively displayed on the Aura. I also made sure the LG was still working fine with a direct input RF IN, and it does.
Have ordered a replacement Labgear box which arrives tomorrow.
Thanks again for your help, and thought you might like to hear what the problem does appear to be.
| Sun 1 Dec 2024 17:16:19
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