Huma Freeview Lost Duplicate Channels?

Housey · 6 Jul 2010 at 19:37

My old Sony Freeview box died on one of my TV's so I replaced it with a Humax. With the Sony it found 2 sets of channels, the normal ones and then a set starting at 800. This was great because if I had a duff channel in one set the other set typically worked fine, so I swapped them over. The new all singing all dancing Humax box finds the first set, with 4 or 5 dropping out on signal strength, yet the second set is nowhere to be seen so I can't swap them over with the stronger signal version like before!

I live in Staffordshire between Lichfield and Uttoxeter and guess I was picking up 2 different transmitters, hence the duplicates. Any ideas how I can get these back, find the frequency perhaps so I can manual tune em??

Cheers
Housey

Housey · 6 Jul 2010 at 20:35

I missed the X off me Humax!

a1ex2001 · 7 Jul 2010 at 12:25

Rather than botching it have you considered getting a good quality aerial setup properly for one of the two transmitters you can see?

jellybeard999 · 7 Jul 2010 at 12:43

The 800 channels are the red button ones I believe?

Housey · 7 Jul 2010 at 14:59

a1ex2001 said:
Rather than botching it have you considered getting a good quality aerial setup properly for one of the two transmitters you can see?

I have professionally installed one already thanks. If you read what I wrote you will see that I used to see both sets fine with the Sony box, not with the new Humax box hence the question really and we live in a wooded area not in a built up area so the arial is pretty much optimised for where the house is, sadly.

Housey · 7 Jul 2010 at 15:05

jellybeard999 said:
The 800 channels are the red button ones I believe?

Nope.

I'll lay it out again. On the Sony Freeview box I have just replaced (I had 2 of them, both do this) when I auto tuned the box picked up 2 distinct sets of channels. The 'normal' set you would expect starting from channel 1 BBC, channel 2 BBC 2 etc. They also picked up a second FULL set of channels, which started at 800. So 801 was BBC1, 802 was BBC 2 etc. This was great as a couple of the channel in the standard set, ie the channel 1 upwards set suffer break up but when I went to the second set which start at channel 800 these used to be stronger for the ones that broke up, not across the range. So my Sony box was picking up 2 full sets of channels. It is something others get too, do a Google and you can find out I'm not on my own and it comes down, from what I can see, to picking up 2 distinct transmitters and the Sony box assigning one set to channel 1 up and the second 800 up.

The Humax box does not pick up the 2nd set. It's sitting exactly where the old Sony box was, into the same socket and my Sony box that is working in my office has both sets working off the exact same arial.