evil_josh Posted January 3, 2007 Posted January 3, 2007 Hi there, My brother has just bought one of these. All seems well except that it will not decode nine in Sydney. Signal strength is reported as 99%. However it does decode WIN with no problems. Any ideas? Also can anyone comment on the reception abilities as we are considering a second purchase for use in a rural location where signal strength is marginal. Previously we have tried my Tiny2 at the farm where ABC is snowy and it was picture perfect through the Tiny2. Josh.
jokiin Posted January 3, 2007 Posted January 3, 2007 Hi there,My brother has just bought one of these. All seems well except that it will not decode nine in Sydney. Signal strength is reported as 99%. However it does decode WIN with no problems. Does it have a signal quality reading, this is more important than signal strength, also the fact that you are picking up WIN instead of NINE suggests you are in an area where there is overlap, you may need to set the frequency manually, some boxes are like this (not familiar with your particular model)
Evil Shaun Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 Hi I am Evil Josh's brother. It recieves win and Prime Wollongong fine but balks at chanel 9 syd. Yes it has a quality meter which pretty much anything below 75% causes pixelation and jumping, which is the case with C9. SBS is also dodgie but it was marginal before on analogue. I can see the transmission towers except for a few treees which are in the way (About 13km away). Last night I inserted a 12db attenuator into the aerial line as I thought I could be overloading the front end of the reciever, however this made it worse. I will add some amplification and post the results. Appart from the above it is performing exceptionally on all other channels. $39.95 I am not complaining. Shaun
Densor Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 Hi I am Evil Josh's brother. It recieves win and Prime Wollongong fine but balks at chanel 9 syd. Yes it has a quality meter which pretty much anything below 75% causes pixelation and jumping, which is the case with C9. SBS is also dodgie but it was marginal before on analogue. I can see the transmission towers except for a few treees which are in the way (About 13km away). Last night I inserted a 12db attenuator into the aerial line as I thought I could be overloading the front end of the reciever, however this made it worse. I will add some amplification and post the results. Appart from the above it is performing exceptionally on all other channels. $39.95 I am not complaining. Shaun Hi Shaun Do you live nth or sth of Wollongong ? I setup a STB at Bulli which picked up the Sydney as well as Illawarra stations. Another I set up at Corrimal had a perfect view of Brokers Nose tower above Balgownie, but it appears it only transmits sth. Knights hill above Albion park gave a perfect signal. I don't know why SBS would be marginal on Digital. It should be as good as the rest. There is a section of the forum dedicated to local reception problems. It might be worth a read. David
Evil Shaun Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 Fixed Channel 9. The clever autosearch assigned it to real channel 33, which is Manly and the Kings X site. I simply told it to manual search on Channel 8, which is the willoughby tower I have line of site with, and hey presto it works. Try the ACMAs post code search for the channel allocations. Be careful when printing as the shading to indicate digital transmission was lost on my printer Evil Shaun http://www.acma.gov.au/postcode/postcode_acma.shtml
Evil Shaun Posted January 5, 2007 Posted January 5, 2007 Ok, yet another update. All working OK. I am hoping all will be OK once the sun goes down. Should be. OK, I have reprogrammed the channels manually to look at the Willoughby / Gore hill tower. For some strange reason the auto search decided to pick the furthest away towers in each case. Anyway, I used the attached link and all is fine. http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?remember=0...Location=Sydney One final thing to note is that ABC is listed as being on Channel 12, however the MTV Coles tuner thinks 12 is Channel 10 HDTV. I checked the frequency and it is in fact 13 on the manual scan = 12. So the tip is to look at the frequency rather than the channel no. Evil Shaun
wahroonga farm Posted January 5, 2007 Posted January 5, 2007 Yes the MTV unfortunately gets a bit lost with our odd digital channel numbering plan. It doesn't recognise the existance of Ch 9A So this is how it handles the Band 3 plan. MTV Assigned - Centre Frequency (MHz) - ACMA assigned 6 - 177.5 - 6 7 - 184.5 - 7 8 - 191.5 - 8 9 - 198.5 - 9 10 - 205.5 - 9A 11 - 212.5 - 10 12 - 219.5 - 11 13 - 226.5 - 12
alanh Posted January 5, 2007 Posted January 5, 2007 Wahroonga Farm, The new digital band 3 frequency allocations actually match the European allocations but with different names. European = Australian 5 = 6 6 = 7 7 = 8 8 = 9 9 = 9A 10 = 10 11 = 11 12 = 12 AlanH
stahc Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 glad you fixed the problem shaun.....................couldn't find any at my local coles. just have one question.....................is the rest of the family evil or just you boys?
Evil Shaun Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 I would say that my brother is evil and I simply lack imagination when signing up. Mr Wahroonga Farm. I live in Wahroonga and the second coles unit is destined for a farm just out of Gloucester. Coincidence or what? It will be pointing at Middle brother mountain Shaun ps. Coles Hornsby still had some yesterday. Lindfield and Turramurra Coles had both run out. Turramurra suggested you could ring around stores to find stock. Sale ends tomorrow. ES
wahroonga farm Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 Mr Wahroonga Farm. I live in Wahroonga and the second coles unit is destined for a farm just out of Gloucester. Coincidence or what? It will be pointing at Middle brother mountain No coincidence .... here's the details
butsefal Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 Hi, everyone. I just got Coles STB box today. Everything seems to be fine except that the front display on the unit shows permanently double zeros - 00. They do not change when I switch the channels. Am I supposed to configure it somehow or the unit is faulty ? I can't find any menu options for setting channel numbers ...
wahroonga farm Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 Mine shows 001 for the 'lowest channel' and steps up each time u move up a channel. I have changed the channel order.
butsefal Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 What does it show when you just push the power button ? 001 staight away ? Mine shows 00_, otherwise it is workiing fine. What do you mean by "I have changed the channel order." ? Just moving the channels up and down in the "Move" column of programs list ?
wahroonga farm Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 What does it show when you just push the power button ? 001 staight away ?Mine shows 00_, otherwise it is workiing fine. What do you mean by "I have changed the channel order." ? Just moving the channels up and down in the "Move" column of programs list ? 1. It comes up on the 'last ch viewed' 2. Yup.
milhous2 Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 Hello guys/girls! I just purchases one of these MTV boxes and oddly enough the IR remote for it controls my DVD player and visa versa - VERY annoying.... Any ideas? Apart from that I have had joy with the box - I'm in the Brisbane CBD Cheers, C
Evil Shaun Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 Hello guys/girls!I just purchases one of these MTV boxes and oddly enough the IR remote for it controls my DVD player and visa versa - VERY annoying.... Any ideas? Apart from that I have had joy with the box - I'm in the Brisbane CBD Cheers, C Turn one off. Unlikely you would be watching both at the same time anyway. Otherwise i think you are stuck. What brand is the DVD? Could help us MTV owners in the future if we can get an idea of who actually made it. Has anyone played with the data port on the back?? ES
evil_josh Posted January 6, 2007 Author Posted January 6, 2007 Hello guys/girls!I just purchases one of these MTV boxes and oddly enough the IR remote for it controls my DVD player and visa versa - VERY annoying.... Any ideas? Apart from that I have had joy with the box - I'm in the Brisbane CBD Cheers, C There must be a common IR chipset floating around. I have the same problem between my Tiny2 / Twinhan remote (for my HTPC) and my BASE DVD player remote. Josh
catieb Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 Hi all, I'm new to the world of set top boxes, so hope someone can clarify a problem I'm having with my MTV STB. Just tried to set up the timer function, and it kinda worked, but I don't know what to put in where it says "Channel No."? For example, channel 9 could be any of: 9 -- for channel 9 004 -- which is what shows on the LCD display when I watch channel 9 8 -- which is what shows on the screen in the channel number when I am watching channel 9 and press the "i" for "information" button. Additionally, the system seems to want me to enter 4 digits for the channel number, but the longest number I have is "004" -- three digits. I'm confused. Help! (Please!) Thankyou!
dpx Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 Heya I live in Wahroonga too. I'm in a bit of a low point though and my digital reception sucks. I get two channels 7 and 9 occasionally abc and 10 but very rarely. Just interested as to what channels you guys get? (I want to know what I'm missing out on).
Evil Shaun Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 (edited) Heya I live in Wahroonga too. I'm in a bit of a low point though and my digital reception sucks. I get two channels 7 and 9 occasionally abc and 10 but very rarely. Just interested as to what channels you guys get? (I want to know what I'm missing out on). All of them but as stated before I am on the top of the hill with line of sight to Willoughby tower. ES Edited January 7, 2007 by Evil Shaun
alsoran Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 Hi guys, got one of these for my folks who had problems with analog 2, I think they need to spring for a decent antenna - i think someone asked who made these things, a bit of web trawling indicates they are a goldtech g-767 - hope this helps someone. Was going to get one for me but someone said the sale was over
Guest wiggum Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 On the hunt for a cheapy cheapy SD STB. I came across this thread and thought $39.. what the heck. Beats messing about on eBay etc. So I ducked out to grab one from local Coles just now.... Price has gone up to $59 for the STB, and the DVD player. Anyway, I only need a STB to get Ch7 and Ch10 for 2-3hrs / week for the upcoming AFL season seeing as those two dinosaur stations won't allow their precious signal on the Foxtel satellite sevice. So I've got some time to play on eBay before that kicks off... Just thought I'd let people know that these STB's appear to have gone up to $59 now, at least here in Melb.
catieb Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 Yeah, it was a last-week special. They ran the same special a couple of weeks BEFORE Christmas at Bi.Lo and now a couple of weeks AFTER Christmas at Coles, so maybe it could happen again in the future, after they're all finished with their "Back to School" specials ...
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