All posts by Mark Aberfan Aerials
Below are all of Mark Aberfan Aerials's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Hi Keith,
I love Bill's site too, he has a couple of pics I took of a comical install that we had to remove & replace in his bozo section, I'm a old git but I still regard Bill as the daddy of the riggers !
Over the years he has written some great stuff which is informative & funny equal measure, a talented man.
Now off to bed with you, dont make me call your mum !
Mark Aberfan Aerials
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Hi Keith,
Lucky you, I would think he is a great teacher ! I dont know him personally though I've spoken to him on the phone, I've always admired his no nonsense approach & his sense of humour as well as his great knowledge.
Dont worry about the age thing, at the age of 10 I used to give my son a pound for every fault he found and corrected on faulty sky installs that we attended, the little bugger used to clear me out ! & then he would get a tip from the customer ! Now at 21 there is very little he does not know ! He gets quite iritated if someone asks him if he's needs to check stuff with me !
Mark Aberfan Aerials
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Hi Keith,
It started when he was 8 & he followed me onto a roof, which was a bit of a shock, so we decided to teach him how to do it properly. These days you would have to be careful because of all the H&S stuff & the sue everyone climate back in the day it was impossible to get insurance for him until he was 16, however it was a good move for him to leave school having a trade under his belt.
Mark Aberfan Aerials
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Hi Guys,
Ar'nt those liners made from tin foil ? I doubt if anyone would intend to drill through, but bricks do crack when drilled. I'm too worried about what could happen if the flue got blocked & I was responsible for the the results.
Mark Aberfan Aerials
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Hi wutty,
Before you get too far with the SCR option, has anyone made you aware that not all satellite receivers (& not all sky boxes) are SCR compatable.
Mark Aberfan Aerials
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Hi Lorenzo,
Just do a retune/ channel scan & you should be ok if that dosent work you may need a larger dish, I could receive it in Bulgaria on a 2.2m dish when the change happened. You should not need any thing so big in spain, but do the retune first as it could save you some money !
Mark Aberfan Aerials
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Great stuff, It will be most welcome in freeview lite areas like the valleys (my home turf) as it will give access to this channels without having to deal with sky. However the flipside is if they drop the encrypted feeds, many expats will lose access to these channels.
Mark Aberfan Aerials
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Hi Brian,
It looks good on my HTC HD2 , I've added it to my favorites on my phones browser.
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Sunday 18 September 2011 5:48PM
Hi Steve,
We went up to observe the switchover process, so we would know what to expect when it was our turn. I couldn't belive that none of the trade body bigwigs could be bothered to turn up especially when one was set up to deal with the switchover usually a trip away from home at the expense of the members is a must !
I believe the DSO contractors travel around the country following the switchover, I know that after my area switched we got work putting right the cockups, which was worth far more than doing the DSO contract work itself.
Mark Aberfan Aerials