Message-ID:

6 May, 2024: The networking issue during the past two days has been identified and appears to be fixed. Will keep monitoring.

tech / sci.electronics.design / Re: Where is the problem likely to be?

Re: Where is the problem likely to be?

<u4u96k$jcrt$2@dont-email.me>

https://www.novabbs.com/tech/article-flat.php?id=122192&group=sci.electronics.design#122192

copy link Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design

Path: i2pn2.org!i2pn.org!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: blockedo...@foo.invalid (Don Y)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: Where is the problem likely to be?
Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 18:02:00 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <u4u96k$jcrt$2@dont-email.me>
References: <bjt47ihbmcmnrv5q0e2qlfekq12d02pagl@4ax.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 01:02:13 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a1ae50df64184b2f6df28b6cd5abe1ff";
logging-data="635773"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19U5OAvwETpZ7lFqDg4o9Uu"
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/102.2.2
Cancel-Lock: sha1:IhrkaPUEe3B5S/lLyx3eukDpNG8=
Content-Language: en-US
In-Reply-To: <bjt47ihbmcmnrv5q0e2qlfekq12d02pagl@4ax.com>

by: Don Y - Sun, 28 May 2023 01:02 UTC

On 5/27/2023 2:39 PM, micky wrote:
> All my tv's run off a central location, which used to include cable but
> now has a DVDR with an amplified antenna that brings in my city and the
> next one.

You've not said WHICH city or given any other indications as to the
type of broadcasts.

> One tv is supplied a signal through a splitter/amp and a cable, and the
> sound is fine.
>
> The kitchen tv has lately developed bad sound. Words are intelligible
> but sort of staticy or distorted. Sometimes it's worse than others.
> Its signal is supplied through the same splitter/amp, another splitter,
> another splitter/amp, and a long cable,

"Staticy" suggests an analog broadcast.

> If you were a betting man, where would the most likely problem be, in
> the kitchen TV (which is 20 or so years old), the cable, or that second
> amp, which has been sitting on the basement floor and running
> constantly, needing no attention, for 39 years?

I'd first check all the connections. A loose F-connector can have
profound consequences.

Subject	Author
Re: Where is the problem likely to be?	Don Y