All posts by Stephen Phillips
Below are all of Stephen Phillips's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
chris - you seem to think that this website is in some way responsible for what is transmitted.
It isn't. It is Brian's private personal thing.
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Mazbar - I didn't even know you COULD hold up a mast by modulation. Especially with only a single side band.
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Ah! You mean like we have on our new digital aerial? A bracket held on by expansion bolts of some sort?
I'm happy with it, but it is only holding a modest sized Ae at its own level, not up a pole, and it is fixed into holes drilled in the bricks. V. solid 4/6 pot stack.
Apparently 3 storey building are an elfin safety ischew to put a new wire round.
The very old big ae it replaced - pointing at S Coldfield so older than the Wrekin tx I presume - was on a wire round the whole stack and well on the way to chopping off the top of the stack
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M O'P - he means have two aerials, one good for some channels and another for others, with their signals joined by a "Diplexer" and sent down a single wire to below.
I think he is only using Belmont for illustration. Without your postcode cannot give specific advice.
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Gary - Rowridge is HORIZONTAL
UK digital TV reception predictor
59dB is a strong signal
Some boxes no longer work due to changed txd standards.
TVs and boxes that do not support the 8k-mode | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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It's a very solid chimney with a T shape that provides strength; and IIRC the bracket goes round a corner so fixations at 90 degrees.
I do understand the concerns you express, but we are talking 1753 building standards not modern rot.
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Hard? Tha thinks that were hard?
When I started in't trade 't aerials were gert big H and Xs and t' gafffer med us fit em come rain sleet or snow. Latt ladders - they were for poofs. We had old ladders with missing rungs, and if they were too short we had t' shin up drainpipe.
No radios for adjusting. Gaffer would short the coax outer to the mains. We had to hold on up top. One shock for left, two for right.
If t' gaffer were rild wi' us he'd tek ladder away and mek us jump off roof into t' rose bush.
Tha doesn't know the're born.
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M O'P - Different bits of kit can be a bit more or less sensitive so go with the flow!
You seem to be in a cusp of three different transmitters. I don't know the details of the changover but suggest you wait until it is all finished then optimise.
Do you have neighbours who use Freeview to compare notes?
Or a genuinely local TV ae installer?
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Just been outside and looked up and pondered the chimneys as a fixing point for ssbs.
A single chimney which is just a square of single thickness brick is clearly dubious, the more so the higher it gets.
But the ones here are 3 or 4 flues per chimney made of interlocked brickwork; so incredibly strong, and where the fixing is has 6 foot more brickwork before the pots.
The pots themselves are 4 ft tall and it would take a strong man to lift one unaided.
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Saturday 17 September 2011 4:19PM
KB - have you integrated your installations?