tv reception

Over the last week we have been having some issues with our tv reception. We have two tv's in the house on free view.
We had a new aerial last year with an amplifier.

The tv in the bedroom works fine but when the aerial is plugged in we struggle for reception in the living room. When the bedroom tv has no aerial plugged in living room is fine.

I have checked all connections, thought I had it sussesd but back to square one.

Any ideas

Clearly the method used for splitting the aerial signal to both rooms is incorrect. What method is it?
See http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/amps.htm#split

By the looks just a cheap 3 way thing. Is a distribution amplifier ok with the amp already in the living room

By "what method is it" I was really asking for a labelled wiring sketch. The sort of thing shown here: http://www.satcure.co.uk/useful/tech_help.htm#sketch

Without that, I have no idea how it's meant to be working and especially what is the purpose of the unknown amplifier in the living room.

What Sam Gangee is really saying is that from a point of view of professionals helping you (for free) to diagnose your TV aerial problems there's nowhere near enough information to be useful to people like us who understand this stuff pretty much inside out. If what you want is just someone to nod and offer a useless idea before shrugging and giving up then we're probably not the right people for you. What you've written so far comes across something like when my wife tells me there's a problem with the something technical. It goes something like this....

"The thing doesn't work. I pushed the button and moved the thing across but it wobbles. Should I add that other thing. Oh and there's something else but I'm not sure."

...and I'm like WTF?


So, you had a new aerial fitted.... where?; on the roof or in the loft, on the eves...and by who?; you, some bloke down the pub wots got some big ladders so that must be okay as a qualification right, the cheapest aerial fitter you could find after scouring the local rags, or someone who took the time and trouble to explain what they were doing and who showed you the signal quality on a professional meter and how even the weakest channels for your area still give at least a pass and gave you a 12 month warranty on the work [We know it's probably not this last one because if it was there's be no issues now or you've have had them back already]

...and what exactly was installed... aerial with/without a mast amp... or aerial with a box in the loft feeding several TV points - Model numbers or pictures are useful at this point.

I will guess the aerial cable is split using something like this which will reduce the signal it is technically a passive splitter what you need is to use an active splitter which can be identified by the fact it needs power be it from a battery, mains or routed through the aerial cable it needs power.

You can get what is called a mast head amplifier which is powered from the TV or other device but in the case of the TV you often have to program the TV to give the voltage output to power the amplifier. You can get a device like this which is not an amplifier it is simply a power supply which can supply an amplifier placed remote from sockets when the TV does not have the option to power a mast head amplifier.

Pictures speak a 1000 words, put up pictures and I am sure you will get the help required.

If the OP goes outside with his\her best eyeballs fitted (or specs or binocs) and has a look - it the aerial still in the same place it was when it was fitted?
Or is it lying on the roof after being blown down.

I think that since his last comment on Tuesday, Wez1981 has decided that he'll get the answers he wants to hear (rather than the info he really needs) somewhere else. At the time I wrote this message he was last present on DIYnot on Friday evening at 10pm, so my guess is he can't be that bothered about fixing the issue.

Lucid,don't get so excited, I have quite a lot on at the moment, planning to get pics etc tomorrow.

Glad you take such an interest though

Wez, you should read this page:
http://www.glodark.com/asking4help.htm