Are you using a rabbit ears style antenna or connecting it to the antenna on the roof?
Rabbit ears.
Using an indoor antenna for digital TV requires a very good signal level. Perhaps you are now in a lower signal area compared to your old house. While tuning, see if you can find the digital tuning menu setting where you can see the signal level. You might also have reduced signal because of the type of roof and/or insulation ion the ceiling.
Youâre probably not going to get much luck with them unless you use a amplifier (which may still not work). Running a cable from the main antenna socket will work or pay someone to install a socket in the bedroom.
Makes sense as we used to live on a top of a hill. the actual antenna sockets do not work. We cannot install a new one as we currently rent. Iâll play around with the signal level strength tonight and get back to you guys.
In the lounge room. We tried bringing the tv to the lounge room with no luck in regards to tuning. It does not look like the socket on the left, itâs just a standard aerial connection port.
Never mind, my parents got Foxtel on T-Box, becuase my parents donât want to âstream from phone to the TV with chromecastâ.
Iâve seen in the past where tenants have taken the booster injector power supply for the antennas when theyâve moved out because they didnât know what they were for.
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Really? InterestingâŚ
You can recognise the design of the tower seen above in the following graphic. This was used as part of a news report to explain the changes to the TVQ tower as it changed from 0 to 10. On the left, the original tower had a huge array of long elements that broadcast the low frequency (long wavelength) channel 0. A section using much shorter antenna sections was added above that to transmit the higher frequency (shorter wavelength) 10 frequency.
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At least some Quest Apartments are still using analogue RF to distribute the Foxtel channels to the televisions in each room. The Foxtel channels are on the analogue tuner and appear on the EPG from channel 901 onwards, and of course with no info on the EPG and no channel name. The picture is zoomed in somewhat, and it is like watching poor quality analogue TV again. All the free-to-air digital television channels are perfect.
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Have stayed in a lot of hotels where they still do this. Often the channels are stretched 4:3, buzzing and compressed audio and noisy pictures.
Or they have a card reading error message on them.
Itâs not a great advertisement for Foxtel if you sit down to watch a blurry, stretched image missing half the frame. Wouldnât inspire you to bother getting Foxtel at home.
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Something Iâve noticed at home - since Prime7 have added the placeholder for 7flix, the picture and sound on one of my Samsung TVs has gone haywire.
Thereâs purple and green glitching across Prime7, 7Two, 7mate, 7flix and Racing and sound is atrocious.
It doesnât happen on my main TV (connected to Foxtel iQ3) or the bedroom (connected to Fetch)⌠just in the study.
All three TVs are Samsung.
Racing has always looked fine before the other day.
Itâs not affecting the ABC, SBS, Nine or WIN channels.
Did you rescan your TV manually for ch66 to appear, or did the Samsung automatically pick it up?
Have you tried these two TVâs by removing the Foxtel and Fetch boxes and using the TVâs inbuilt tuner to see if the same thing occurs?
I had a similar problem to the one youâre describing on a TV when Ten HD first launched in metro. Didnât occur when ONE was in HD. Except it only happened on the Ten HD channel and caused the TV to reset. So ended up deleting channel 13 for a month or so until it mysteriously came good. A bit different to the whole suite of channels going to rubbish, thoughâŚ
rescanned manually.
Yes, the other TVs were fine when Fetch and Foxtel were disconnected as well.
Thatâs whatâs got me confused!!
Cheers.
Does anyone have a copy of the analogue TV transmitter listing from the ACMA from before when analogue TV started switching off⌠ie. June 2010 or earlier⌠that they can post on here?
Either the PDF or Excel version is fine.
Archive.org has access to the old ACMA websites from back then.
Hereâs one from February 2010.
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Thanks so much for that!
Cheers
My partner is travelling at the moment and staying in a motel in Central QLD.
Asked me earlier tonight what channel Doctor Doctor is on, as she couldnât find it anywhere.
I text her âchannel 50â (i.e. 9HD). She replied to tell me that 9Gem is on LCN 50.
So I told her to try channel 5.
She told me that the single number LCNs at the motel were being used for an information channel and a small selection of Foxtel channels.
Apparently the TV only has 9Gem on 50, 9Go! on 55 and Nine/9HD is not on any channel at all. 
Obviously hasnât been rescanned since the affiliation change last year. Tried to talk her through a rescan, but the menu options are all locked down.
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