Please help!! TV/Aerial problems

KeithP

top_drawer wrote: »

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I wish I knew someone who would be willing to do it

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Jen

Lots of people willing to do it.

If you can't do it yourself or find someone to do it for you for nothing, I'm afraid you'll have to do what everyone else does... pay for it.

Have a look in Yellow Pages.

scheming_gypsy

top_drawer wrote: »

I may well give this a go!! its actually a shared house and we are short on space, also any drilling etc that would need to be done is beyond me and I doubt the LL would want it... But I could erect this sort of thing on some furniture or something ....

He might want it.. when you leave he'll want to rent it out to somebody else so if somebody else puts an aerial up then it saves him the hassle.

I wish I knew someone who would be willing to do it or even knew enough to have been able to tell me all this information months ago - It may seem like I only want certain answers (of course I do, everyone does!!) but its only because I have pushed and pushed several times that I have managed to find out what I have... maplins attempted to fob me off several times.

i'm too kind sometimes!
i'm in PR5 near the Capitol Centre if you're really stuck.

Inactive

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

could get an aerial splitter, hoik a cable through the window and share their signal.

That will reduce the available signal to both TV's.:rolleyes:

scheming_gypsy

why will it?
how many houses do you see with an external aerial for every TV in the house? Houses have 1 aerial with multiple TV's running off it.

espresso

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

why will it?
how many houses do you see with an external aerial for every TV in the house? Houses have 1 aerial with multiple TV's running off it.

A splitter is a small device that has one input, the 75 ohm load and 2 or more outputs, each driving a separate 75 ohm load. Essentially they are transformers that split the power in the input signal to multiple outputs, while maintaining the 75 ohm impedance. However, there is no free lunch! Every time you split an RF signal with a splitter, you drastically decrease the signal's strength. An RF signal only has so much power. Logic dictates that splitting this signal in two with a "passive" device, which has it's own insertion loss, will result in two signals that must have less than half of the original signal's strength. Now an active amplified splitter is a different thing!

Inactive

Thanks espresso, explained perfectly..

AndysDad

top_drawer wrote: »

hi,

Just had a look on the web re this aerial and apparently its only good for high signal areas according to the reviews ...

Plus i'm hearing that Argos have repealled there returns policy!!

Jen

Maybe its time to get a boyfriend who is good at DIY especially aerial installations......;)

Moneymaker

The best indoor aerial I've found is the "Vision V10-040 log-periodic aerial". It's just over a metre long but you can either suspend it near the ceiling or clamp it to something like a hat stand (clamp supplied). Works best if you have a window facing the direction of the transmitter.

I tried one in my mother's downstairs living room and got every channel - stable - although she lives 30 miles from the transmitter.

Fifer

Obi167 wrote: »

I may be compeletly wrong with this -

I'm afraid you are.

top_drawer_2

well I just havent had time to do anything further on all of this but am hopefully getting back to it now...

Can anyone interpret results from Wolfbane? These are mine but they might as well be in swaheili!!

Thanks

Jen