One for All Outdoor Aerial

I live in a very windy area with a fairly weak Freeview Signal (too weak to
use a loft aerial).

One for All's SV-9350 looks a doddle to fit and I can put it on the gable
end of the house out of the wind.

Has anyone had any experience of using this unit in a weak signal strength
area?

Richard



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In article , Richard
Wagstaff writes
I live in a very windy area with a fairly weak Freeview Signal (too weak to
use a loft aerial).

One for All's SV-9350 looks a doddle to fit and I can put it on the gable
end of the house out of the wind.

Has anyone had any experience of using this unit in a weak signal strength
area?

Richard




If that were me I'd get something like a Triax outside aerial and mount
it with proper fixings and do the job that way. Can't think of anywhere
that windy that would take down a well fixed outdoor aerial!....
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Tony Sayer

"Richard Wagstaff" wrote in message
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I live in a very windy area with a fairly weak Freeview Signal (too weak to
use a loft aerial).

One for All's SV-9350 looks a doddle to fit and I can put it on the gable
end of the house out of the wind.

Has anyone had any experience of using this unit in a weak signal strength
area?

Richard


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I would avoid one of these at all costs. It is described as being suitable
for good to medium reception areas and will not be as good as a proper
external aerial.

I have to agree with Tony. I live in a very exposed location and have an
Antiference XG10EW and FM3 mounted on a 16' mast and whilst it sways about a
bit, but I'm fully confident that any storm which brings it down will leave
me with far more damage than an aerial to worry about!

I live in a very windy area with a fairly weak Freeview Signal (too weak to
use a loft aerial).

One for All's SV-9350 looks a doddle to fit and I can put it on the gable
end of the house out of the wind.

Has anyone had any experience of using this unit in a weak signal strength
area?


Maybe One for All should stick to making devices that can change channel on
your garage door and not be jack of all trades.

Mind you, I seem to recall that I once had a curtian track made by
Antiference.
Maybe that was just a bad dream!!

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Graham.
%Profound_observation%

"Richard Wagstaff" wrote in message
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I live in a very windy area with a fairly weak Freeview Signal (too weak to
use a loft aerial).

One for All's SV-9350 looks a doddle to fit and I can put it on the gable
end of the house out of the wind.

Has anyone had any experience of using this unit in a weak signal strength
area?

Richard

I actually had a call from somebody local recently who was experiencing "bad
reception".

I went and found they had one of these One for All's SV-9350 mounted on the
apex, and connected to the Freeview box via only about 5 metres of cable.

Connected the analyser and found firstly that it was amplifying the signal
by a fair way. I didn't check the specs but it must have been around
15-20db.

There was a large notch missing in the middle of the UHF bandwidth, wiping
out 2 muxes and an analogue channel. The rest of the signals ranged from
barely acceptable to being ok but with most muxes varying in strength quite
badly across the span (not nice and flat across).

I replaced this with a TCX10A and WF100 downlead (no ****y power injector
inside etc) and the signal romped home with each mux perfectly flat, no deep
notches and a very happy customer.

I took the thing home and the other day found time to have a little play
with it. The conclusion I came to was that it's crap, and I binned it soon
afterwards (minus the brass clamp which might come in handy one day).

The signal round here is pretty much spot on, so if it's useless here then I
would say you've got more chance knitting fog that getting a decent signal
on it where you are.

I took the thing home and the other day found time to have a little play
with it. The conclusion I came to was that it's crap, and I binned it soon
afterwards (minus the brass clamp which might come in handy one day).


I'm sorry, but your technical talk goes way above my head :-)

Marky P.

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Marky P wrote:



I took the thing home and the other day found time to have a little play
with it. The conclusion I came to was that it's crap, and I binned it
soon afterwards (minus the brass clamp which might come in handy one
day).


I'm sorry, but your technical talk goes way above my head :-)

but this newsgroup does have "technical" in its title ;-)

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"-GB-Carpy" wrote in message
k...
I went and found they had one of these One for All's SV-9350 mounted on
the apex, and connected to the Freeview box via only about 5 metres of
cable.

Connected the analyser and found firstly that it was amplifying the signal
by a fair way. I didn't check the specs but it must have been around
15-20db.

There was a large notch missing in the middle of the UHF bandwidth, wiping
out 2 muxes and an analogue channel. The rest of the signals ranged from
barely acceptable to being ok but with most muxes varying in strength
quite badly across the span (not nice and flat across).

I replaced this with a TCX10A and WF100 downlead (no ****y power injector
inside etc) and the signal romped home with each mux perfectly flat, no
deep notches and a very happy customer.

I took the thing home and the other day found time to have a little play
with it. The conclusion I came to was that it's crap, and I binned it soon
afterwards (minus the brass clamp which might come in handy one day).

How splendid to find an aerial installer who takes an intelligent interest
in the technology! Instead of merely saying "That thing's a heap of crap
missus" you took the trouble to test it (with an open mind) and identified
some of its deficiencies. In doing so you made the customer realise that you
aren't a cowboy, and I guess you learnt something -- even if it was only
that your suspicions were justified!

You have gladdened my heart Mr Carpy.

Did you by any chance crack the beasly thing open to discover the hi-tech
secrets within that enigmatic plastic?

Bill

..

Did you by any chance crack the beasly thing open to discover the hi-tech
secrets within that enigmatic plastic?

On the subject of plastic, I was disappointed that you didn't have an
anecdote about my earlier mention of Antiference curtain track.
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Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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Graham wrote:
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Did you by any chance crack the beasly thing open to discover the hi-tech
secrets within that enigmatic plastic?

On the subject of plastic, I was disappointed that you didn't have an
anecdote about my earlier mention of Antiference curtain track.

but isn't Antiference curtain track simply another aluminium extrusion.

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Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11