hiho,
I've been doing a bit of googling on the problem I'm having and one of the results brought up this forum. Having read a few of the threads here I thought it was worth registering to ask for advice as there seem to be some very helpful people here.
I live in Chadstone (the suburb, the shopping centre is in East Malvern) and a few months ago a friend installed an antenna for me and the neighbour who lives in the flat downstairs. This means there are two outlets from a splitter in my roof. Last week my neighbour mentioned that he wasn't happy with the reception we got for SBS. I'd never noticed this as I don't watch much TV at all and very rarely SBS. But he does as English isn't his first language and SBS has shows in his native tongue.
So this week I got around to seeing what he was talking about and it's bad, very bad. SBS, C31 and NITV are completely unwatchable with my setup but all of the other channels are excellent, I'll make a little table at the end of this post. I only have a USB digital TV tuner for my PC, it detects 33 channels on an auto-scan but a couple of them are radio channels. He is using a DSTB, I don't know if it gets better reception than my setup or not, I'll try and remember to ask him next time I see him.
With my googling I discovered that SBS is transmitted via UHF while the mainstream channels are VHF, so I'm assuming this is the problem. I mentioned a friend did the install of the antenna, he's a licensed electrician and was pretty confident in his ability to do the job. But having read the threads here this was probably a mistake, the posts by mtv have been quite enlightening.
The antenna installed was a bought from Jaycar. I had been into a Jaycar shop and asked them about antennas for my area, this was one they said would work now and in the future after analogue was turned off.
I've read the Specifications page for the antenna and must admit that I'm not sure if it covers the current SBS broadcast. It lists
Channel (6-12) (28-69) and when I look at the it lists SBS1 as being channel 3, which isn't in the listed range.
So I'm posting here before I go any further as I'm not all that sure that the listed channel numbers are referring to the same frequencies.
Thanks for your help.
This is how the tuner software displays the 33 channels it detects. Not being much of a TV watcher I had no idea we had this many available. I'm listing them in the order it has them in, I assume this is frequency based. The first two columns are how the software lists them (LCN=local channel name), third column is signal as represented by the software, it has six 'bars', and my comments if any.
Code:
LCN Name signal quality/comments
7 7 Digital 6
71 7 Digital 1 6 same as above
72 7TWO 6
73 7mate 6
70 7 Digital 6 same as 7/71 (no idea why it comes up three times)
74 TV4ME 6
9 Nine Digital 6
90 GEM 6
99 GO! 6
94 EXTRA 6
95 EXTRA 2 6
1 ONE 6
10 TEN Digital 6
14 TVSN 6
12 ONE 6 another duplicate
11 ELEVEN 6
2 ABC News 24 6
4 ABC1 6
5 ABC2 / ABC4 6
6 ABC1 6
8 ABC3 6
3 SBS ONE 0 or 1, no picture or sound
32 SBS TWO 0 or 1, no picture or sound
33 SBS 3 0 or 1, no picture or sound
34 NITV 0 or 1, no picture or sound
30 SBS HD 0 or 1, no picture or sound
13 C31 0 or 1, no picture or sound
15 ABC Dig Music 6
16 ABC Jazz 6
37 SBS Radio 1 0 or 1, no sound 95ish% of the time, just broken garbled sounds the rest.
38 SBS Radio 2 0 or 1, no sound 95ish% of the time, just broken garbled sounds the rest.
39 SBS Radio 3 0 or 1, no sound 95ish% of the time, just broken garbled sounds the rest.
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