cleddytanhouse Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 My Auto Trail Tracker came with a drop down Avtex TV installed in the front of the MH. The bedroom area also has a pre wired mounting section for a second TV. I fitted a Samsung mains only TV myself in the bedroom area. The Samsung cost approx 50% against the Avtex. In anything less than a perfect strong signal area, the Samsung still works fine, but, the Avtex picture keeps breaking up. Has anyone else found that Avtex are a problem with aerial reception? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxli Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Hi Just a thought. I bought a small TV and bossted aerial, which I fitted myself. It wasn't an Avtext, but similar in appeance etc.. The signal was very disappointing until I realised, that the TV wasn't suppling any power to the boosted aerial. I bought an inline power spliiter adapter and presto! All good. Just check with a voltmeter, that the TV supplies a voltage (usually 5v) on its aerial socket. If your aerial needs 12v (as some do), then you'd need the splitter in any case. Regards Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleddytanhouse Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 Thanks Alan. The aerial booster has its own power supply and it has two output connections, one for the front and one for the rear TVS. So, the signal strength should be the same to both TVS, but, with quite different results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geeco Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Chris you might be correct re the Avtex unit. On our last trip that took in locations of indifferent TV reception ou unit often did not achieve the same quality of reception as the TV's around our immediate location. I have considered a satellite installation but at around £1500 for a roof mounted unit I decided to buy the box set of Inspector Montilbano DVD's, a couple of jazz CD's a box of wine and a bag of pork scratchings. The Avtex builtin DVD player works a treat, the wine is a great relaxer and the scratchings keeps my Dentist in work! Problem solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiskers Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I have a recent Avtex tv and I have to agree that the reception is not as good as it could be. I have a cheap second hand 16" Technika which picks up more channels than the Avtex when plugged in to the same system. eg The Technika is picking up Quest very well, whereas the Avtex does not show it at all. Admit that the Avtex has better viewing angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakofox Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I have a 16" Avtex In our MH. In the drive it picks up more stations than the digital TV in the house. Never had a problem on tour as long as it is retuned to the local aerial . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanS Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 We have the new Avtex in our 2015 AutoTrail Frontier and it is the best TV we have had. Perfect picture and reception - we have used it all over France and many parts of England and have found even the HD picture great. We have even had good reception when the aerial amplifier is showing a yellow LED when the aerial is still in its travelling position. Have you checked the aerial connections to the TV and the aerial amplifier ? Hi Garry Hope you are looking after that AutoTrail. You sure live the good life out in Oz don't you :-D Best wishes to you and yours Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleddytanhouse Posted August 2, 2015 Author Share Posted August 2, 2015 Yes, I have checked all the connections and they are all ok. It appears that my problem is how the Avtex TV processes the signal. Obviously the Samsung in the bedroom area uses the same aerial signal and processes it much better. The MH is going to dealers this week for other snagging items after 3 months of use and hopefully, they can sort this issue with Avtex at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydney1 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 We also no complaints about the reception in ours fitted to our AT Scout once the rooftop aerial is pointed in the best direction (identified by a transmitter locating app) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david lloyd Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 We have had several Avtex TV's that have given faultless performance previously but the 16" one in the present van, now three years old, has always suffered from 'pixelation' even in areas of good signal reception. Initially, as our home area was the last to switch to digital, I thought it was simply due to poor quality signal but after the switchover it just continued. Even in Spain it picked up all the digital channels but broke up badly at times. It was just by chance that my wife took a call on the mobile and I noticed that the TV instantly started to pixelate. At home I plugged the TV into the house aerial and, of course, had a very good signal. Tried the mobile phone near it and as soon as that was used the picture broke up. I spoke to an engineer at Avtex who said he had not heard of the problem and thought it may be our mobile causing it but, more often than not, we were not using our mobiles when it happened. However, I pointed out that there was a good chance that there may be someone else in the vicinity on a site who may be using theirs and that any mobile phone (or indeed other wireless gadgets) could be disrupting the signal. They arranged to have a courier collect the TV the next day, repaired it and returned it three days later with a new motherboard installed which seemed to cure the problem. Unfortunately, shortly after, we suffered a second fault. This time when the TV was initially turned on in DVD or TV mode the picture would be a darkened shadow. Moving the set around seemed to switch it back to a bright picture but eventually that stopped working until we found just one spot on the front/side of the set where if you applied some slight pressure the picture would return to normal. Once again the engineer arranged to have it collected, repaired and returned in just a couple of days. This time he thought it was a loose connection on the inverter. So far it has behaved OK and it is hard to fault their repair service. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McAudiA3 Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Yes, same here. Just returned from a site where everyone else could watch all channels. Mine wouldn't pick up a single channel and the lady opposite brought her Grundig TV to our MH and managed to tune into 115 channels, all of which were perfect. The 217DRS unit that we have is going to be returned for the third time today as it's useless and I'm going to ask for a refund. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pampam Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Im with you on this one geeco ,we always carry tons of box sets :) pp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 This is what everyone with an Avtex tv set needs; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/avtex-aerial-/111788824729?hash=item1a07221899 I have one and don't even need to stick it outside the van. I just plug in and leave inside on a shelf. Picks up every channel including Freeview and of course, when in European countries, just set it to the country, scan, and it tunes in all foreign tv.....Poland, Germany, Austria, wherever. Gives superb quality definition too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Check the menu setup some menus require you to turn antenna power on or off.If set to off can effect the signal to tv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayjsj Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 I have a 5 year old 16" Avtex , always works well re-tunes quickly viewing angles perfect, good performance on Status aerial all in all well worth the highest price, satisfied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyishuk Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 My advice would be to contact Avtex, Over the years I have had problems . queries and they have been very helpful and replaced controllers free of charge when outside the warranty period. When the time comes, I would have no hesitation in purchasing a replacement from them Rgds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McAudiA3 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I phoned them and they sent a new TV which works brilliantly. Great customer service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolandrat Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I have 3 Avtex TV's, the last one I bought was supposed to be the Bee's Knee's, what a load of rubbish. Last year in Spain all we could receive was Spanish programmes whilst plugged into Villasol's Satelite and campers around us were enjoying perfect UK pictures. This year I took the earlier model with us, plugged it in and received perfect UK pictures. It had an analoque station whereas the new one didn't, I only upgraded it because of all the marketing publicity saying that it automatically tuned in to all the satellite systems. Was I doing something wrong with the new one? Just to mention we used the same camp site plot as last year and the same socket. , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolandrat Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Forgot to mention in my previous post that my Auto-Trail also has a drop down TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wirehaired Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I will be looking for a TV for Motorhome,i saw this company the TVs are somewhat less expensive that the Avtex how good they are I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wirehaired Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/12v-caravan-tv Sorry didn't post the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleddytanhouse Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 The common issue with the cheaper tv's is often the viewing angle. Having started this thread, complaining about Avtex, the one thing that I cannot complain about, is the viewing angle. You certainly don't have to sit right in front of the set to get a good picture (When the set is actually working properly!!!) I a MH it is not normally possible to sit without looking at an angle at the tv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wirehaired Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Thanks for that,something to think about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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