Aerial installation cost
 

100 quid is probably 500 these days.

I disagree.

At current retail prices:

100m PF100 co-ax £23
100 clips - £2
Top quality aerial - £25
Masting & brackets £30
masthead amplifier & PSU £30

=£110

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"sPoNiX" wrote in message
...
Can any of the riggers on this forum give a very rough price of
installing an aerial in a strong-medium reception area?

sponix


£10?

Aerial installation cost
 

At current retail prices:

100m PF100 co-ax £23
100 clips - £2
Top quality aerial - £25
Masting & brackets £30
masthead amplifier & PSU £30

=£110


3 aerials (2 uhf & one FM) = £75 and even decent Rawlbolts are about £4
each. So it comes to £176. (and perhaps VAT on top)

Hi Charles,

I'll let you have £25 per aerial and even add £15 for a decent UHF diplexer,
but I draw the line at £4 per rawlbolt :-)
I've always used Shield Anchors or Sleeve Anchors at less than 75p each and
I've not had an array fall over yet.

The serious point I was making was that despite rising costs and an elapse
of 28 years the cost has not increased hugely, especially compared with what
Bill says Albert Wright was charging for aerials in the fifties.

£200 on an aerial array is damned good value depreciated over an average
lifespan of 12 years.

Out of interest, what arrays did you install in 1977, and did you manage a
group E for Hannington or use a group B and rely on CH4 from CP?
If you were still using your Hannington array I wonder if you'd get any
interference on Meridian from Five on channel 42 from Reigate.

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In article ,
Doctor D wrote:

Hi Charles,

I'll let you have £25 per aerial and even add £15 for a decent UHF
diplexer, but I draw the line at £4 per rawlbolt :-) I've always used
Shield Anchors or Sleeve Anchors at less than 75p each and I've not had
an array fall over yet.

I'm sure if you buy them in quantity from someone like Screwfix the price
will drop enormously. Buying just 5 does not give the benfit of quantity
discount.

Mine stayed up through the Great Storm of 1987. It was well fixed.

The serious point I was making was that despite rising costs and an
elapse of 28 years the cost has not increased hugely, especially compared
with what Bill says Albert Wright was charging for aerials in the fifties.

I remember in the mid 60s a Swiss visitor telling us that a tv aerial
installation cost at least £60 - when we were getting away with £20

£200 on an aerial array is damned good value depreciated over an average
lifespan of 12 years.

and I've, so far, had 28 years.

Out of interest, what arrays did you install in 1977, and did you manage a
group E for Hannington or use a group B and rely on CH4 from CP?

They were Fuba (XC343 comes to mind). It was a full Band V aerial for
Hannington - being German their aerial groups were not the same as ours.


If you were still using your Hannington array I wonder if you'd get any
interference on Meridian from Five on channel 42 from Reigate.

Where I live Reigate is well screened by the North Downs - and the Fuba had
a very good F/B ratio. Reigate (chs 1-4) was just viewable with a BBC log
periodic aerial at 10m with 26db mast head amp - almost the same level as
Oxford on the same channels!

--
From KT24 - in "leafy" Surrey

Using a RISC OS5 computer

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In message , Marky P
writes
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:47:11 +0000, "M. J. Powell"
wrote:

snip

Following on from this, I live in a place with good WH reception and
fair to good Moel-y-Parc reception with two aerials running through a
combiner.

Can I run through the same combiner if I try to get M-y-P digital?

The whole set-up is about 15/20 years old so should I start again from
new.

Mike

The digital channels may be out of band for the combiner &/or aerial.

Presumably I could get a suitable combiner which would deal with WH
analogue and digital, and M-y-P analogue and digital?

Mike
--
M.J.Powell

Aerial installation cost
 

In article , M. J. Powell
writes
In message , Marky P
writes
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:47:11 +0000, "M. J. Powell"
wrote:

snip

Following on from this, I live in a place with good WH reception and
fair to good Moel-y-Parc reception with two aerials running through a
combiner.

Can I run through the same combiner if I try to get M-y-P digital?

The whole set-up is about 15/20 years old so should I start again from
new.

Mike

The digital channels may be out of band for the combiner &/or aerial.

Presumably I could get a suitable combiner which would deal with WH
analogue and digital, and M-y-P analogue and digital?

Mike

Do be aware about combing two aerials on the same frequencies as
unwanted pick-up can be a problem.....
--
Tony Sayer

Aerial installation cost
 

In message , tony sayer
writes
In article , M. J. Powell
writes
In message , Marky P
writes
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:47:11 +0000, "M. J. Powell"
wrote:

snip

Following on from this, I live in a place with good WH reception and
fair to good Moel-y-Parc reception with two aerials running through a
combiner.

Can I run through the same combiner if I try to get M-y-P digital?

The whole set-up is about 15/20 years old so should I start again from
new.

Mike

The digital channels may be out of band for the combiner &/or aerial.

Presumably I could get a suitable combiner which would deal with WH
analogue and digital, and M-y-P analogue and digital?

Mike

Do be aware about combing two aerials on the same frequencies as
unwanted pick-up can be a problem.....

Yes, thanks, Tony. My present analogue set-up shows nothing unusual. On
the digital side I've not seen anything I could attribute to two feeds
of the same signal.

Mike
--
M.J.Powell