I have to say that this is absolute rubbish. Any Status aerial must be used in conjunction with the associated amplifier. I would first of all ask whether the amplifier was switched on. If it was not then there will be no signal to the TV. No bona fide distributor for Status aerials would give advice such as this. These are by far the best TV aerials on the market and everyone who uses them will confirm that they require the amplifier.lindyloot said:We thought that the status 530 aerial that came with out MH was not very good, so we invested in a satellite system.
a friend of ours wanted an aerial for his tv and went to (the supplier or distributor of the status aerials) the shop, he told them about our findings. They told him if its routed through the white booster box you will get c***p reception. If you take the aerial lead out of the booster and put it directly into the freeview box all will be fine. This afternoon Rich did this and had great reception and 61 freeview channels. He know thinks its a great aerial. Apparently the amplifiers in these boosters interfere with the recievers in modern day freeview boxes and tv's. Lin
Lin,lindyloot said:GerryD, can you explain then why when we only use the aerial lead straight into the freeview box do we get 61 channels, excellent picture quality . The MH is parked on our drive between two houses. When the booster is used very poor reception. We live in a very poor reception area for freeview, on our home aerial we have to have a very long pole on the house and a booster, yet we plug the aerial in the MH straight in to the freeview box and have a much better reception, which proves to us it works better without the booster and we don't get a snowy picture. Our friend went to a status dealer in Taunton who recommended to him that we try it without the booster. This has solved our problem and wether you should or shouldn't is neither here nor there, but we are happy.Lin
Rather than "trying that out...." why don't you change your "flying saucer aerial" to a 530 Status aerial first, which is the one referred to by the O.P.?I can count on one finger the number of times I've had any kind of reception from my Status 'flying saucer' arial, ......................
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Right, will be trying that out next time, and will report back...
Just bought the Meos on ebay myself - looking at it the dvd goes in right hand side. It's an incredibly light tv and i have fitted it onto an arm bracket in the tv cabinet in the van. The arm enables us to swing it around to view either in bed or from the cab area. Being an LCD you do need to get your viewing position just right as always! Oh, and it's 12v/240v and come with all the cableslindyloot said:The Passants, you mentioned ( it's a new Meos TV by the way) how do you find it, we are thinking of buying one ,with the in built DVd for the bedroom area of the MH. ( there is one on ebay for £179, ) Do you have that model, if so which side does the disc go in?. Lin
Predicting signal strength for a motorhome/caravan is very difficult at present and will be for the next three years as switchover moves ahead. The problem is that one transmitter in a region may have already switched and will therefore be at full power, whilst another transmitter may be a few months behind and still at 10% power. As the transmitter goes to full power many users will find that their current good signal may become worse. This is due to the fact that a signal that is too strong will degrade faster than a signal that is too weak. Following switchover, many amplifiers/boosters will become redundant. The problem there is that many household distribution units will also fail as it is not possible to switch off the amplifier within them.Rainbow-Chasers said:Interesting post! We did have a problem one night (we were in a dodgy area) when we arrived late at night, and just wanted to catch some tv whilst dinner was cooking. The tv couldn't find anything - digital or otherwise!
I was messing about like us men do - and when i turned the booster off, we got analogue - which it couldn't find before! Snowy, but watchable - so it is an interesting thought!
Maybe when the TV guy gets on, he can shed some light - possible overboost to an aerial further away? I know mobiles did it just before 3g came in - if you went too far west you would loose recpetion as it went to 3g (which at the time was only available in ireland - hence bad signal!) I wonder if the same could happen with this??
Just checked your postcode and you are showing maximum signal strength from Winter Hill transmitter, in which case your aerial is aimed just west of north. You will go through switchover later this year with the final stage on 2nd December. At that stage the signal will be increased tenfold and from that point you may start to see signal issues.thePassants said:I can now confirm that through the Status (315) aerial with booster I get chuff-all reception; analogue or digital.
But: If I connect the TV direct to the aerial, I get lots of digital channels.
At postcode: M31 4AX (storage site)
This may be unrelated, but reading the 'troubleshooting' sect of the leaflet that came with the aerial, it says: make sure the red power led is lit when booster power is turned on. (or similar)
My led only lights when the co-ax lead is connected to the TV and the TV is turned on; not sure why.
Anyway; I said I'd try it and report back, so there we are...
Peter,JohnsCrossMotorHomes said:Interesting thread this, I have a Status on my boat in Poole Harbour (BH15 1BT) some days it is brilliant, other times it is not then I am stuck with analoque, and it can change from morning perfect to rubbish at night.
Must try this direct cable into TV when that happens.
During the switchover at home (RG40 3JE) it was hopeless, now at lst it seems fairly reliable.
Peter
