All posts by Eddie Rock
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Hi Briantist,
I live in W12 London. Do you absolutely need my full postcode? At the risk of sounding like a paranoid pansy, I'm just a bit wary of putting it on the internet.
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Briantist, thanks for taking the time to offer your thoughts!
I too suspect that there's an issue with the cable. How much do you think replacing it should cost roughly?
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OK, so it's not an expensive job. I'll ask the landlord to get it fixed. I just need to find a specialist who's not going to snap off the existing aerial, fit a cheapo one on and then charge me £240 for the privalege as described above!
How much do you think an aerial specialist should charge to do it? £50-£70?
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Tuesday 1 March 2011 5:02PM
Wow! I was just about to suggest Aerial Force to my landlady to troubleshoot our TV reception problems. On a whim I gooogled "Aerial Force complaints" and found this site.
Can anyone offer some advice? I just moved into a flat and there's a cable from the roof coming into the living room through a hole in the wall. The cable was stripped at the end so the copper wire was showing. As a quick fix we plugged an RF cable into the TV and connected an adapter to the other end whcih allows you to connect two male RF cable plugs together. Instead of another cable we put the copper in and taped it in place against the wall. We got good reception this way but for reasons to long to go into here, we had to remove this quick fix from the wall.
I bought a coaxial plug to attach to the cable thinking the connection would be more sturdy. It worked well for a while but over a few days the reception deteriorated. I tried re-fitting the plug but this didn't help. I then tried to revert back to our quick fix but, alarmingly, this didn't work anymore either. It was while doing this that I noticed that the reception improved or worsened depending on where I positioned the cable. I refit the plug and taped the cable back against the wall where I could find the best reception and we got most channels very well but are missing others.
The problem now is that the reception isn't consistant. On our best day we never have all the Freeview channels but sometimes we have good reception of most channels and other times we only receive a small handful of channels. Sometimes reception will be fine and then will start deteriorating to nothing literally before our very eyes!
I'm getting fed up now and just want a solution. The fact that we sometimes have good reception and that simply moving the cable seems to affect reception quality leads me to suspect the problem requires a minor fix of perhaps a loose connection, but I'm not an expert.
Any ideas?