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<blockquote data-quote="elsmandino" data-source="post: 858790" data-attributes="member: 111675">Thanks for that.&nbsp;It seems that I have been a little bit thick (no surprise there). According to the Crystal Palace website, one of their muxes is already operating at full power - 200,000 watts as opposed to 20,000. The mux that they did this to is the one that carries BBC ONE and TWO which I tested late last night and I have no problems at all with signal - no drop out at all, even with the amplifier on - which was the situation before the switchover began.&nbsp;It might be that I over estimated how strong the signal was going to be. I have just tested how far I am from the transmitter and it says around 40km, plus I live in a bungalow, so my aerial is not quite as high as others might have it (it is on the end of a pole bolted to the side of my house).&nbsp;This being the case, it will probably be the case that I could get away without using the booster and use a passive splitter instead - i.e. the booster is not really adding anything. I suppose it is a toss up as to whether I want so spend £5.00 or so a year on powering a splitter that is not really adding anything or whether I should spend £10 on a passive splitter that uses no power.&nbsp;I would really like to do a proper comaprison between the amplifier and passive splitter just to see but as JAY says above (and I had heard this myself), software that provides an indicator of Strength/Quality is pretty much worthless.&nbsp;Are there perhaps any cheap TV signal testers that are considered better than the others (I know that to get a really accurate signal, you need to spend £200, which is ridiculous).&nbsp;Thanks</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elsmandino, post: 858790, member: 111675"] Thanks for that. It seems that I have been a little bit thick (no surprise there). According to the Crystal Palace website, one of their muxes is already operating at full power - 200,000 watts as opposed to 20,000. The mux that they did this to is the one that carries BBC ONE and TWO which I tested late last night and I have no problems at all with signal - no drop out at all, even with the amplifier on - which was the situation before the switchover began. It might be that I over estimated how strong the signal was going to be. I have just tested how far I am from the transmitter and it says around 40km, plus I live in a bungalow, so my aerial is not quite as high as others might have it (it is on the end of a pole bolted to the side of my house). This being the case, it will probably be the case that I could get away without using the booster and use a passive splitter instead - i.e. the booster is not really adding anything. I suppose it is a toss up as to whether I want so spend £5.00 or so a year on powering a splitter that is not really adding anything or whether I should spend £10 on a passive splitter that uses no power. I would really like to do a proper comaprison between the amplifier and passive splitter just to see but as JAY says above (and I had heard this myself), software that provides an indicator of Strength/Quality is pretty much worthless. Are there perhaps any cheap TV signal testers that are considered better than the others (I know that to get a really accurate signal, you need to spend £200, which is ridiculous). Thanks [/QUOTE]

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