07-04-2005, 21:56
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cable leak
I am in Dublin.
In my bedroom tv I am picking up feint NTL cable tv channel signals.
Some are better than others.
I do not have cable installed and the house never has had cable installed.
2 questions:
1- is this leaking cable signal at all harmful?
2- is there a way to boost the signal strength?
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07-04-2005, 22:04
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Re: cable leak
1 - no
2 - get cable tv installed
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07-04-2005, 22:29
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Re: cable leak
What is your bedroom TV connected to? Aerial from socket on wall, set top aerial, digisender or what?
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08-04-2005, 00:36
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Re: cable leak
How do you know it's NTL channels? (without a decoder the only thing you're going to see is the terrestrial pass through channels)
Does one of your neighbours maybe have some sort of RF transmitter to get cable throughout the house or something?
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08-04-2005, 01:31
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Re: cable leak
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Originally Posted by simbr
How do you know it's NTL channels? (without a decoder the only thing you're going to see is the terrestrial pass through channels)
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Thats not necessarily true, some TV's (mainly the cheaper brands) have mulitregion tuners in them that can pick up some of the analogue cable channels as well as the main 5, our old telly could but our new Sony can't.
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08-04-2005, 13:04
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Re: cable leak
We had a similar thing going on in my nan's house. There was a fantastic sky analogue signal in the back bedroom despite a complete lack of cabling upstairs!
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08-04-2005, 13:13
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Re: cable leak
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Originally Posted by skorn
I1- is this leaking cable signal at all harmful?
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might want to put a bucket under it 
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08-04-2005, 14:00
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Re: cable leak
Correct me if I'm wrong but there is no terrestrial TV in Ireland........well very little.
Its all cable from what I remember.
So the TV is an "open" reciever that can pick up somethings that would be blocked by a stronger signal.
Take your lead out of the TV in the UK and you'll see what Skon sees.
Cheers
Paul
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08-04-2005, 16:16
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Re: cable leak
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Originally Posted by PWS
Correct me if I'm wrong but there is no terrestrial TV in Ireland........well very little.
Paul
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In Dublin there is terrestrial tv. 3 or 4 channels worth.
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08-04-2005, 21:36
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Re: cable leak
Ok
The tv is a Panasonic TX 25CK1L.
Its hooked up to a internal aerial (One for All Sv9140).
Besides the standard 4 Irish terrestrial channels I get the snowy NTL.
I know its NTL because one of the channels is the unencrypted Setanta Sports (only available on NTL ROI).
What is an "ATTENUATOR"? will installing this help?
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08-04-2005, 22:27
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Re: cable leak
The one thing it could be is; Sometimes Installers use a two-way-splitter as a combiner, so they can combine the terrestrial feed with the cable feed (a makeshift bypass filter). This can sometimes lead to leakage via the roof ariel, this is maybe what you are picking up?? Just guessing
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09-04-2005, 12:53
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Re: cable leak
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Originally Posted by Womble
The one thing it could be is; Sometimes Installers use a two-way-splitter as a combiner, so they can combine the terrestrial feed with the cable feed (a makeshift bypass filter). This can sometimes lead to leakage via the roof ariel, this is maybe what you are picking up?? Just guessing
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We get something similar in our house...
We connect the STB to our main TV using SCART, but have a cable coming from RF-OUT socket on the STB going upstairs to the kids room (we rarely watch TV in the evening, so the kids watch Disney channel and that kinda thing in their room). We got some of this kinda leakage thing through on the TV in our bedroom as their TV is connected to the roof aerial too. It is very feint though so I never bother watching it.
I mentioned it to the engineer that came to install our samsung box and he said its nothing to worry about as it can happen.
edit: but if we unplug the roof aerial from the combiner adapter on the kids' tv, we stop receiving the weak signal on the tv in our bedroom
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09-04-2005, 14:32
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Re: cable leak
So you have
Aerial
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Kids TV----Your TV
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NTL Box----Main TV
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09-04-2005, 14:49
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Re: cable leak
No, the main aerial on the roof only goes to the kids room. We watch TV very rarely, so only have the NTL going to our main TV.
We have as follows:
Main Aerial > Kids TV (into a combiner adapter)
NTL (RF output) > Kids TV (into a combiner adapter)
NTL (SCART) > Main TV
Cheap Indoor Aerial > Bedroom TV
We have no RF cable into our main TV at all and NTL is in no way connected to our TV in the bedroom.
We also have no Aerial going into the NTL box.
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