Hi,

Hopefully I can avoid hassling with my cable company and fix this myself. :)

I have Service Electric Cable TV.

I have an old tube style TV.

I can currently get most of the channels I am supposed to get, by using just the analog cable signals, through my vcr. When using just analog, no DTA, most of the channels I get are pretty clear, but some higher channels are fuzzy.

But Service Electric started transitioning some of the analog channels to digital only, and they sent me a free DTA box to hook up to get the new digital channels. I hooked up the DTA between the cable in, and the TV. Bypassed the VCR completely.

But when I hook up the DTA box I do get the new channel, but some of the other channels don't come in anymore. I just get an error message about "interruption in service. Please check connections. Call us at ....."

When I select one of the "missing" channels it displays the right name of the channel, and the number in the right lower screen, but the error message also. So the DTA box apparently knows it supposed to look for a certain channel, but isn't receiving it.

I checked the connections. All tight.

I noticed that the initial installer installed a cable splitter down in the basement. Splits it into 2. There is a brass cylinder around the connection so that I can't (?) remove the splitter.

In my internet searching I found some references to a splitter messing up the signal enough to interfere with digital signals.

I only have one cable hooked up to the splitter. i.e. one cable in and just one cable out. One of the two out ports is empty.

The channels that do come in over the DTA are all nice and clear, with just some occasional screen freeze.

Could it be the splitter?

Could it be I have to have my cable company resend something to my DTA?

By pressing the info button on the remote, when on a working channel I get : power level -6.1, signal to noise ratio 32,
cat present yes, pat present yes.

By pressing the info button on the remote, when on a ** non-working ** channel I get : power level -50.0, signal to noise ratio 0,
cat present no, pat present yes.

My gf has called the cable co about it, and they have her leave our number, but haven't gotten back to us yet. Hopefully I will not have to rely on them to fix this. So many horror stories about what happens when you try to get your cable service improved. :(

Thanks for any help.