Mast head amp interferes with Austar reception.

[L.A.T.]

Neighbour has Austar from a dish and free-to-air digital from a fairly new
antenna, via a mast-head amp.
Both signals go to the VCR and thence to the digital T.V.
The free-to-air picture is excellent and the Austar picture is snowy. Very
snowy.
If the free-to-air antenna s unplugged from the VCR, or if the power
plug-pack for the mast-head amp is unplugged from the wall, the Austar
picture becomes excellent. The free-to-air picture, of course, is then
non-existent.
Could the mast-head amp or its plug-pack be causing some interference to the
Austar signal but not to the free-to-air signal?
I don't know why the antennae are connected to the VCR. That is how Austar
set it up.

 

[keithr]

Neighbour has Austar from a dish and free-to-air digital from a fairly new
antenna, via a mast-head amp.
Both signals go to the VCR and thence to the digital T.V.
The free-to-air picture is excellent and the Austar picture is snowy. Very
snowy.
If the free-to-air antenna s unplugged from the VCR, or if the power
plug-pack for the mast-head amp is unplugged from the wall, the Austar
picture becomes excellent. The free-to-air picture, of course, is then
non-existent.
Could the mast-head amp or its plug-pack be causing some interference to the
Austar signal but not to the free-to-air signal?
I don't know why the antennae are connected to the VCR. That is how Austar
set it up.

The power for the masthead amp goes up the coax. Somewhere there will be
a blocking connection, if the VCR is connected on the wrong side of this
connection then it will have the masthead amp power across it's input.
that could be the cause, I inherited such a situation in a house I once
bought.

 

[Jasen Betts]

Neighbour has Austar from a dish and free-to-air digital from a fairly new
antenna, via a mast-head amp.
Both signals go to the VCR and thence to the digital T.V.
The free-to-air picture is excellent and the Austar picture is snowy. Very
snowy.
If the free-to-air antenna s unplugged from the VCR, or if the power
plug-pack for the mast-head amp is unplugged from the wall, the Austar
picture becomes excellent. The free-to-air picture, of course, is then
non-existent.
Could the mast-head amp or its plug-pack be causing some interference to the
Austar signal but not to the free-to-air signal?
I don't know why the antennae are connected to the VCR. That is how Austar
set it up.

sounds like you need to set the austar satellite decoder output on a different
UHF channel. contact austar and they'll send a tech (or possibly give you the
code to access the satellite decoder settings.)

Else if the VCR supports software source selection use RCA cables to
connect the set-top box to the VCR


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[L.A.T.]

Neighbour has Austar from a dish and free-to-air digital from a fairly new
antenna, via a mast-head amp.
Both signals go to the VCR and thence to the digital T.V.
The free-to-air picture is excellent and the Austar picture is snowy. Very
snowy.
If the free-to-air antenna s unplugged from the VCR, or if the power
plug-pack for the mast-head amp is unplugged from the wall, the Austar
picture becomes excellent. The free-to-air picture, of course, is then
non-existent.
Could the mast-head amp or its plug-pack be causing some interference to
the Austar signal but not to the free-to-air signal?
I don't know why the antennae are connected to the VCR. That is how Austar
set it up.

Thank you for your responses.
The snow all but vanished this morning, and then returned an hour later.
Austar will look into it.