I have two TV's hooked to the same cable system with a splitter. When I change channels on the main TV the other TV's signal will sometimes degrade. For example, when the main TV is on ch 9 and the other TV is on ch7, everything is OK. When I change the main TV to ch4 the other TV's signal gets grainy. Any idea how to correct this problem?
TV Interference
Dec 31, 2005
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I have two TV's hooked to the same cable system with a splitter. When I change channels on the main TV the other TV's signal will sometimes degrade. For example, when the main TV is on ch 9 and the other TV is on ch7, everything is OK. When I change the main TV to ch4 the other TV's signal gets grainy. Any idea how to correct this problem?
The splitter is not very good at isolating the two outputs, and in addition, your incoming signal may not be very strong. I would head to Radio Shack and get an amplified splitter. They are inexpensive and should completely solve your problem.
H. R. (Bob) Hofmann
I used to have a similar problem and couldn't work out what the problem was. I decided to upgrade my old Hills antenna (purchased around 1978) with a new Matchmaster Digimatch 01MM-DC23A.
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I also replaced my old passive spltter with one using 'F' connectors (WES FS-102) so I had an all-'F' connector system. After that I had excellent reception on all free-to-air vhf and uhf channels including digital. Prior to this upgrade channel 2 was variable in quality and
31 reception was very fuzzy.
that only happens if the main TV is a high definition set. Get rid of it.
Also, does your computer do the same thing when you post the same message twice?
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