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    Default Foxtel IQ3 manual free to air channel tuning?

    Can somebody please tell me if you are able to manually load wanted free to air channels to FOXTEL IQ 3 boxes. Box is located between 2 transmitters and cannot load correct WANTED channels itself. Any help appreciated. Thanks all.



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    AFAIK, the decoder is preset to what is expected to be the best terrestrial transmission site covering your registered address ans not user-selectable.

    Are you not receiving signals OK?

    Do both transmission sites have identical content, or different?

    If reception is OK, why do you want the other TX site signals?

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    Thanks MTV,, these boxes don't cater for all FTA signal situations. Box is located between 2 transmitters and makes a complete mess of FTA ( FTA reception is fine through television tuner - manually loaded). Spent a very long time on telephone with call center. Complete waste. Foxtel installers in my area pass this problem off, and walk away. I have had a few now.These boxes SHOULD have provision for manual loading of required channels. And to answer your question more fully, both transmitters handle same services, however one is degraded and other is perfectly serviceable. Customers are saying they are being "forced" to upgrade to these units.?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dbuv View Post
    Any help appreciated.
    I use masthead amplifiers with channel block filters to assist with this, .

    If a masthead amplifier is not required, then something out of , or , to pass only the transmitter of interest when I come across it. (not just IQ3, also dumb TVs that don't tune as per the Australian standard.)

    Note: No good for SFN case or not as good if transmitters are in adjacent groups - none of them have brick wall filters brick wall filters.

    I'm sure there are other types out there, i just post the ones I use.
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    Foxtel techs are 'supposed' to ensure adequate signals are received, so they should be tuning the most reliable TX.

    Yes, iQ3 boxes are replacing MyStar boxes.

    Which RF channels are used on your two TX sites?

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    I will fit a channel pass filter for the particular group i.e 34 to 39. and reduce power level in attempt to get it to 'find' correct channels. Job in question is fitted with masthead amplifier. As I said FTA through multiple sets on site no problem. Only FOXTEL decoder. other site (unwanted is 28 to 33)

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    2nd or 3rd thing I look at when on site is the speccy to see what's happening across the FTA spectrum & adjust levels accordingly if required.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mtv View Post
    Foxtel techs are 'supposed' to ensure adequate signals are received, so they should be tuning the most reliable TX.

    Yes, iQ3 boxes are replacing MyStar boxes.
    Foxtel appear to still have a series of 'standard' STB's available as I had a Pace stb sent to replace a Titan stb that was refusing to accept any commands from any of my remotes.
    I was told by Customer service and the user manual supplied that it was an iQ stb, it most certainly isnt.
    I stand unequivicably behind everything I say , I just dont ever remember saying it !!

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    okay, visited site today, fitted channel pass filter for correct group. Very random things with IQ3 box. Wanted group of channels reduced in power, but skirt on filter still allowing quite a signal through on uhf 33 from adjacent transmitter. IQ 3 software report MER of O and signal of 24db on some wanted channels. (completely wrong) and this keeps changing as you toggle through channels using their remote. I'm curious to know how the choosen FTA channels are selected. Is it by instruction to the box over the air, based on postcode and whats considered the most likely TX site, or is the box in charge of selecting what it deems the best avaiable channels.?? An absolute answer would be great.

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    i connect my free to air direct to my tv....and get a better picture

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    Quote Originally Posted by dbuv View Post
    Is it by instruction to the box over the air, based on postcode and whats considered the most likely TX site,
    My guess is that it is this (above) .....

    this being the case the box won't scan any other available channel frequencies .... (like the Mystar STB's)

    I would like to hear that the above is not correct .... (i.e that the filters will work to select the channels that you want to scan in) or that there is a work around ?
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    sry for off-topic
    im looking for someone, who can dump foxtel FW OTA streams...

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