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Are you talking satellite or terrestrial?
The signal strength is a poor indicator, only really useful for initial positioning of aerial or dish.
If you have 100% quality, then I doubt the problem is reception.
 
If it's FreeView (terrestrial) we're talking about, then are you retuning the Humax, rather than the TV? Sorry if that's a stupid question, but you need to be using the TV as a monitor.
Once again, sorry if that's obvious.
 
Thanks, its terrestrial. I shall most probably bite the bullet and buy a new one Humax when I feel confident that transmission changes have finished in our area. We have had three sessions over the past 6 weeks.
 
Hi -
I hope I'm not stating the bleedin obvious but the quality of the recording (and any subsequent playback of it) is dependent on the quality of the signal from the aerial at the time of recording. If there have been recent changes to the transmitter setup, it's well worth getting someone who knows what they're doing to check the alignment of your aerial and to do a full automatic retune. All channels can and should be at 80/90 plus % - ideally 100% - on the signal quality scale or you're asking for trouble IME. I agree that automatic tuning ought to pick up all available channels in each of the available muxes.

https://www.freeview.co.uk/tvchanges/upcoming-changes
http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/operations/a ... ge_checker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/televis ... ultiplexes
https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/multiplexes

The decoding algorithms that Humax uses have error recovery built-in, but when the signal is so poor that error recovery is not possible the software/hardware effectively crashes and can become unstable - this happens if you try and play back a poor quality recording as well as looking at live broadcasts - hence the value of choosing a 'factory reset' once you are sure you've got clean signal for all muxes.

Buying a new Hummy would seem unecessary on the evidence available. Cheers, W2S
 
I can get channel 87 now- that makes me happy ! Lol

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I have surrendered, a local tv engineer is coming up, he says because of transmitter upgrades in the area signals are questionable where they are coming from. Appears there is a transmitter around 100 yds away (on a telephone mast?) and it might be picking up that one and might even need the arial position changed.
£30plus £15 if arial also.
 

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