Hi,

I live in Coatbridge, near Glasgow, and I own a PVR 9200T. I moved in around 4 months ago, and have had frequent interference ever since. It comes and goes, and varies between channels (although Sky Sports News is the worst culprit), but makes the channels virtually unwatchable when it occurs.

I moved from around 10 miles away, where I had absolutely no problems with the PVR. I now use a signal booster already from the wall socket, which improved the situation from not ever being able to watch some of the channels.

Can anyone help? I'd appreciate any advice you could give.

New aerial? Black Hill transmitter has Mux D (with Film4) outside the band of older aerials. An upgrade is usually required to receive these channels reliably. Mux C with Sky channels is not as bad but could still be marginal.

What signal strength is reported from the menu (System-Signal Detection) when you're tuned to a weak channel? What's the reading on the best station?

Sorry for such a slow response, I was trying to get a reasonably consistent reading for the crappy channels.

I think for a good channel, the signal strength is normally about 61%-69%. For a channel that simply doesn't work, it's around 56%.

I thought I read somewhere on here that the machine is susceptible to cheap cabling. Would it do any good to buy a top notch cable from wall aerial to machine? What do you think I should do?

I think your problem could be the cable from your aerial to the wall socket.
Also the wall socket could be an issue if its not a shielded one.
I have a wall socket too which I cannot use as the socket and cable were installed when the house was built in the 60's.
So now ive installed one of these with a masthead amp and new cable and re-rooting the cable so bypassing the wall socket..