40% Strength / 100% Quality:


100% Quality indicates (educated guess here as not on site with a meter) >28dB signal to noise ratio.

40% Strength is possibly borderline 35~40dB signal power which at the very bottom end of Freeview's recommended signal range. At that level the tuner will be susceptible to any impulse noise picked up by the aerial and cabling. Impulse noise comes from poorly suppressed motors and the like.

Increasing the signal power so the TV reads strength of around 60% might mean trading off some signal quality down to 80%, but that's still plenty. You'll make the system more immune and better able to reject external noise.

Have you tried removing it altogether from the circuit ? If the signal is too strong turning it down will not prevent the amplifier front end getting swamped.

Now feel like I have been screwed by Ebay as the old Sony RDR-HXD870 only just got 1 bid. and did not even make a pound.
Think I give up on ebay as this also happened before.
I was at least hoping to get like £10 for this.
Think its time to stop selling on ebay as its just to much bother for to little.
Gumtree is defo best selling site to use now.

What the hell happened says Item sold for just £0.01
Does this mean its cost more for the listing to?
Have really messed up here?

Why would you imagine people will pay good money for a faulty item? - it just wants chucking in a skip.

Just an update on the Humax box I have plugged back in my London aerial as Sudbury signal was a lot worse.
Removed the boaster and seem to have channels back like Pick TV , Yesterday , & really.
London Live also appears so hopefully it will be better.
Even on the Sudbury aerial the London & Kent signals still come in though not as strong and maybe its going to the signals from Kent?
I cannot seen to tell as does not say the UHF channel?

Are you really trying to pick up signals from Sudbury, Crystal Palace, and the Kent transmitter at Dover? If so, why?? It's no wonder some of your signals are screwed up.

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You should really pick your strongest signals from one transmitter only. If you're in Essex then Sudbury is geographically closer, but Crystal Palace outputs at greater power. Do a first time set-up to clear the tuning memory, but then do a manual tune for one only transmitter only. I have given the mux channel numbers in the diagram I made of the transmitters and their overlaps.

OK when I got up the channels were gone again so I have turned this aerial round to Sudbury and hopefully all good as pick is working again after retune its getting this now.

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This the aerial here LOL

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The other Sudbury one is here

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Which also had problems but all channels are at 100% on the other TV.

With these getting harder to find
I might go pick up a Panasonic DMR-EX83 that is close by for £40 does anyone think this is a good price?

Got my replacement & all seems OK so far this it here

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One of my three SONY 870/890s will be on Gumtree soon but may be a bit of distance for you if you are still after a SONY.
Got these three plus SKY+ with multi-room and Freeview HD+, I may have a problem.