New TV Aerial

[securespark]

As some know if they have followed my threads, I bought a 58" Hisense Freely TV for the lounge and moved the 50" LG Freeview Play TV into the den.

Before I had the LG, I had two old Samsung Freeview TVs from 2013 and 2014.

The aerial is chimney mounted and feeds both TVs. It is split at ground level and a co-ax goes off to a booster in the garage and then on to the den.

This arrangement worked fine with the Sammys.
Once in a very rare while in Summer there might have been some very minor picture disturbance but it was very infrequent and only in Summer.

Now the LG breaks up all the time.
And the Hisense even complained of loss of signal yesterday, even though it is a Freely set, although to be fair, it is supplied with a co-ax feed too.

Also the LG has memory issues and keeps on having to reload apps, there are breaks while it does this, and that drives me nuts.

Initially I was very happy with it, but not now...

But on to my main question.

I got a quote for a second independent aerial for the den TV and it was £300.

I can get a new Freely TV that doesn't need an aerial for that!

Is £300 the going rate?

Have you any other suggestions?

The layout at the moment is that the co-ax from the aerial runs down into a waterproof box at low level. This splits off through an airbrick to the lounge TV, which is buried in the wall, and the den TV, which goes all round the Wrekin via the booster to the back of the house, then under the floor and into the stud wall.

Cheers.

 

[aveatry]

Stick the aerial in the loft or den.

I have have across the

memory issues and keeps on having to reload apps, there are breaks while it does this, and that drives me nuts.

All items on the tv are recognised as apps - even standard tv. To prevent the interruption you need to frequently manually clear the app memory otherwise it does it for you in the middle of somthing.

It should be here
settings or within the device's storage settings. 3. Run Memory Optimizer (LG TVs): On LG TVs, go to Settings > All Settings > General > OLED Care > Device Self-Care > Memory Optimizer.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Is £300 the going rate?
Have you any other suggestions?

The sinal is obviously not very good, when it gets to the 'low level splitter'. Take it first to a distribution amp, as close to the antenna as possible (in the loft), then on to each TV outlet. How's the coax, down from the antenna?

Buy yourself a roll of CT100, to use for temporary runs, to bypass dodgy coax cables.