Repair of a tv aerial.

rob404uk

Hi everyone,


My outdoor TV aerial has had a massive signal problem recently and I was hoping you could help me with what would be a reasonable price to fix it. If it costs quite a bit it may be the excuse to get a virgin package. I live in London so I expect it could cost a little more.


Many thanks

davemurgatroyd

Sorry we are not clairvoyant - anything from around £40 (for a simple fault requiring no replacements) to well over £200 depending on many factors - what is actually wrong - loose connection,aerial moved out of alignment, broken aerial or mountings, faulty cabling and then on top of these height of aerial (is it a one man job or two and what equipment needed to reach aerial), ease of access and parking, congestion charge amongst other factors.

Moneymaker

Around 50% of Freeview problems are caused by a faulty fly-lead, so that would be a sensible place to begin.

silverwhistle

Well, you can have mine: it's currently on the front lawn waiting for the totters.

The bloomin pigeons no longer have a convenient perch from which to deposit on my solar panels, and after the last rain I'm sure I'm getting better production with a nice clean panel...

Heinz

Moneymaker wrote: »

Around 50% of Freeview problems are caused by a faulty fly-lead, so that would be a sensible place to begin.

I totally agree.

Some elderly neighbours were having trouble with their Sky set up a while back and I went to have a look. It turned out they had selected the wrong input on their TV so were watching an HDMI input that had nothing connected to it.

Knowing the house (a relative of ours had lived there until a few months ago and we'd sold the house to the current occupants), I had a look at their terrestrial reception while I was there.

On checking for Freeview channels, found none so I asked when they last watched one (I saw a patch lead from the wall to the TV was connected but noted it wasn't the one I had left there when we sold the house).

"Oh, the Sky chappie said we'd get no signals round here so we don't bother with that" was the reply.

I asked who fitted the patch lead and was told, "Our son."

5 minutes later I'd found my multimeter, checked the continuity of the lead - and found dead shorts at both ends!