All posts by Stephen Phillips
Below are all of Stephen Phillips's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Brian I know you like rooftop aerials, but what's wrong with indoor if there is enough signal?
And Jim B has plenty!
UK digital TV reception predictor
jim - you are using your indoor ae sideways for vertical aren't you?
Brian - whilst I'm disagreeing with you, and chance of changing the title from "effect" to "affect" ?
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sally - bit confused. Are you planning to ditch your Sky satellite and go Freeview?
Have you got a cable from your current aerial? Or could you trial rig one?
Need a full postcode to be moresure but RH11 has a reasonable signal so what you have might be enough.
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Sally: 20m is not vast, but you might need a "masthead amplifier". Only experiment will tell.
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HC - the simplest answer to your question is "ANY".
Think of the TV as simply a picture display unit with a built in tuner box - perhaps only for redundant analogue TV.
Freeview/Freesat boxes, with or without recording capacity, need a picture display unit. So you use the picture bit of the TV, by-passing its internal tuner box.
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May that is rather what your aerial installer should have sorted out if doing his job properly.
Mainly a matter of the right aerial pointing in the right direction.
Have you paid him?
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Mazbar - surely it is the profession of the installer to get proper reception using whatever combination of aerials, amplifiers, attenuators, and filters is needed?
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Mazbar I am not an aerial rigger but I do have some understanding of the technology involved.
You are an aerial rigger but have revealed in your previous posts here that your technical training is perhaps limited.
Aerials certainly will receive signals from the "wrong" direction. Depending on design they will do this differently at different frequencies and angles.
Your expertise should be to study the signals likely to be available at a location, then select an aerial design and amplifiers/attenuators/filters which will provide what is wanted and not what is not wanted.
It is of course something of a black art, which is why I recommend people to pay a local expert for his knowledge.
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Mazbar if you are so good please tell May how to solve his problem; not just that you find Philips TVs hard to deal with.
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Wednesday 29 February 2012 10:37AM
Might be worth trying a cheap booster. They are not as good as masttop ones but sometimes do the trick.