Re: Skylink Problem

["Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nigel,

I've had this before in a couple of different ways.

Some equipment seems to prevent the voltage from "passing" i.e.
if you loop
the RF cable through a VCR then you might find that the skylink won't work
on the output side of the VCR.

I've also had several Sony TV's that stop the skylink working as soon as
you
plug it in (light goes out).  I've not found a technical explanation for
why
though.

For the first case there's some sort of pass-through cable that you can
connect before and after the equipment that allows the voltage to "go
round", although I can't remember where I've seen them.

The second case I've managed to overcome by fitting an in-line attenuator
between the skylink and the TV.  A low value one of say 3db shouldn't
effect
the TV picture much, although if you're using Freeview and in a marginal
signal area it may do.  Don't ask me why it works though!


Cheers,


Martyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "nigeldivers" <nigel.divers@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:21 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Skylink Problem


>I have a rather strange problem which I wonder if anyone on the group
> had experienced before.
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> I cannot get a skylink to work on a particular brand of TV.
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> I have hooked up a 2nd TV (Samsung 940MW LCDTV) in second room and
> cannot get the skylink to work at all. If I disconnect from the TV
> then the light comes on the skylink, as soon as I reconnect to TV, the
> light goes out.
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> I have turned off the RF output on the digibox and back on again to no
> avail. Interestingly, if I connect another TV, it all works fine so
> suspect it is specific to the Samsung LCD.
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> Probably a red herring, but whilst I was exploring the menus on the
> Samsung, I did get IR working through an American setup (AFW I think)
> but picture was in black and white only. Once I set TV to UK settings
> and tune, get perfect picture but light goes out on skylink.
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> Just wondered if anyone had experienced similar.
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> Many thanks in advance
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