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Bill Wright wrote:
See my long follow-up to my original posting. It didn't need a signal
analyser it needed a bit of thinking and a realisation that the
original aerial was pointing in the wrong direction.

Not long ago I was asked to have a look at a problem where reception had
'always been terrible. It's the power station chimneys, they block the
signal.' In fact the signal came from Emley Moor, which was at least 10deg
to one side of the power station, and when I replaced the large high gain
Group A aerial for a much smaller Group B one (!) reception became perfect.

Bill

Aerial right way up, no better
 

"-GB-Carpy" wrote:

Actually *some* STBs do give enough diagnostics to use as a cheap
signal strength meter at least. I used a Philips STB which gives bar
graphs of signal strength and quality, it refreshed frequently enough
to be usable though obviously not as nice as an analogue meter. Set
up so the TV screen can be seen from where you are playing with the
aerial and with the remote to change channels as necessary it worked
quite well.

Once I'd twigged that our location really *isn't* marginal it all
became a lot easier! :-)

--
Chris Green

Although don't forget you need to check reception of every mux, not just the
one which is indicated on the STB signal bar.

Oh yes, I checked all the MUXs, they now do much as one would expect
in terms of signal versus frequency whereas before (when presumably I
was receiving a refracted/reflected signal) their strength had very
little relationship to their frequency.

--
Chris Green

Aerial right way up, no better
 

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:56:11 +0100, "Bill Wright"
wrote:


wrote in message
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Bill Wright wrote:
See my long follow-up to my original posting. It didn't need a signal
analyser it needed a bit of thinking and a realisation that the
original aerial was pointing in the wrong direction.

Not long ago I was asked to have a look at a problem where reception had
'always been terrible. It's the power station chimneys, they block the
signal.' In fact the signal came from Emley Moor, which was at least 10deg
to one side of the power station, and when I replaced the large high gain
Group A aerial for a much smaller Group B one (!) reception became perfect.

Bill


So someone installed a group A aerial for Emley? They should bring
back the death penalty for that! Incorrect aerial usage = instant
death. That should shake up the aerial erectors market a bit :-)

Marky P.

Aerial right way up, no better
 

Marky P wrote:
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:56:11 +0100, "Bill Wright"
wrote:


wrote in message
...
Bill Wright wrote:
See my long follow-up to my original posting. It didn't need a
signal analyser it needed a bit of thinking and a realisation that
the original aerial was pointing in the wrong direction.

Not long ago I was asked to have a look at a problem where reception
had 'always been terrible. It's the power station chimneys, they
block the signal.' In fact the signal came from Emley Moor, which
was at least 10deg to one side of the power station, and when I
replaced the large high gain Group A aerial for a much smaller Group
B one (!) reception became perfect.

Bill


So someone installed a group A aerial for Emley? They should bring
back the death penalty for that! Incorrect aerial usage = instant
death. That should shake up the aerial erectors market a bit :-)

Marky P.

I think the death penalty is a bit harsh, maybe life in prison.
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Aerial right way up, no better
 

Adrian wrote:
Marky P wrote:
So someone installed a group A aerial for Emley? They should bring
back the death penalty for that! Incorrect aerial usage = instant
death. That should shake up the aerial erectors market a bit :-)

I think the death penalty is a bit harsh, maybe life in prison.

Where they'll likely have the benefit of TV system installed by
you-know-who. Provided they learn from that how it should be done, of
course!

André Coutanche

Aerial right way up, no better
 

"Marky P" wrote in message
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So someone installed a group A aerial for Emley? They should bring
back the death penalty for that! Incorrect aerial usage = instant
death. That should shake up the aerial erectors market a bit :-)

I think the installer had assumed that he'd have to use Belmont. Apparently
there's been a session of 'trying it the other way'. Having failed with
Belmont he'd just swung it round to Emley and buggered off.

Bill