Hi,

With my boosted internal aerial I manage to get a fair few channels, so can't complain. However, I'm missing all of the ITV channels. Specifically I'd like ITV 2 + 4 for the footie. Anyone know which frequencies/channels I should manually try? I live in North London, Highgate, so I guess Ally pally is close.

Cheers!

(Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I don't know y way around here yet)

If your transmitter is CP then the channel your afterwould be 22.

A useful site for this type of info is the DTG one

Thanks, I'll give it a go

I have barely had my Toppy a week.

At first averything was alright, but lately, the ITV channels signal quality has deteriorated.

All the other channels appear fine. In fact, my Panny (which is digital, and gets the signl after the Toppy) has no such problems.

Is there someting I can try, or shall I try and get a replacement?

I got it from http://www.heathrowsystems.net/
So far, they have been very good. Does anybody know what they are like for returns?

is your panny a standard STB or is it the Panasonic PVr?
have you tried tightening the conections on your aerial lead?
what do the reception predictor websites say about your area?

Hi,

My Panny is Digital telly (tx32dt40 if I recall correctly)

So, the aerial lead goes from the wall to the Toppy, out and back into the Toppy, and only then does it go to the telly.

Interestingly. when I was playing back a recording, and I switched to the telly, ITV was saying "no signal" but BBC was fine. When the Toppy stopped playing, it went back to the problem previously noted.

Not very good!

However, I have a workaround, in a a spare aerial amplifire that has three outputs. Two fro the Toppy, and one for the TV.

I do not think I should have to do this though.
Otherwise, my experience with the Toppy has been pretty good.

k0sh

It's not surprising at all; every connector, every join, every junction in a cable reduces the signal strength. With any twin tuner, that means that signal strength is critical.

On the Toppy, with it's mildly complicated array of connectors, you do at least have the option of feeding each tuner separately.

Nigel.

On a related point, I have just been given a Toppy 250GB for my birthday (luck boy) and find the manual confusing about what the RF In and RF Out connectors are for, given the ANT 1, ANT 2, LOOP 1 OUT and LOOP 2 OUT connectors. Anyone able to expand on the non-explanation in the manual?

The RF in and RF out are for the modulator; if you want the Toppy's output to appear on an RF channel (for TVs without SCART, for example) then you need to take a signal from the RF out; and if you want it combined with your other analogue channels, feed a signal from the aerial into RF in.

If you just use SCART, ignore those connectors.

Nigel.