Ron C - 3 hours ago »
Hi both,
A huge thank you for helping me with my difficulties; but you grant me too much technical understanding, 12 volt DC is my limit. I will mull over the changes you recommend but after I have made the best of what is available now within our flat.
As repassac has spotted there is a common dish, no-one else (19 flats) are reporting any concerns. I am interested in the digital LNB, but that will be part of the common installation, my stacker is in an outside cupboard marked 4D (photo) so I won’t go there either at this stage, for the same reason, tweaking the dish is a no no and a separate dish conflicts with the building rules. So at this point I can only deal from where the co-ax comes out of the wall beside the box within our flat (photo).
I understand why you want me to improve my signal, but my immediate issues are purely day to day understanding of the box and its capabilities.
Let me return to some of my previous questions maybe expanded a bit, a yes or no is fine at this stage:
1. Does something essential happen in the white UHF/VHF box or can I take it out of circuit?
2. Is some greying out of channels in List while recording correct? Or is it a result of a less than 100% strength, quality is always (usually? 100%).
3. Do the two LNB inputs deal with different specific channels? I think you answered this but I don’t understand the answer… how can I “order set recordings?
4. Is it possible to assign channels to a specific tuner (LNB input)? Same question as 3 I guess.
5. Is there some way of identifying a greyed out channel while in the Guide?
6. Am I wasting your time & mine if I don’t deal with the “common facilities?
Numbers 2 & 6 are the most important at this time.
It may be that I am getting the best possible set up recognising the need to stay away from common facilities... but help me make sure.
Best regards, Ron C
Removing the stacker/unstacker arrangement will not affect anyone else. It will reduce your feed to a single cable. As the arrangement clearly does not work you haven't lost anything. Once you have a single cable it will be much easier to check what is wrong.
In the meantime swap the two infeeds and try a reset to factory defaults.
If you have the unstacked input on tuner 1 in you have much better chance of actually setting up the box to a postcode.
