Signal strength testing

I have just finished building my workshop and would like to install a TV
piont but the workshop is only small and there are other houses between
the workshop and the direction of the transmitter (Waltham)

It's too long a run and too difficult to get an extension from the house.

How can I tell if I will receive a decent signal around the position
(around 15ft - 20ft) above the ground where I can install an ariel? and
what ariel would folks recommend?

In message on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:26:16 +0100
Count de Monet wrote:

I have just finished building my workshop and would like to install a TV
piont but the workshop is only small and there are other houses between
the workshop and the direction of the transmitter (Waltham)


Evict the peasants and demolish their hovels ...

It's too long a run and too difficult to get an extension from the house.


Obviously the castle grounds are extensive ...

How can I tell if I will receive a decent signal around the position
(around 15ft - 20ft) above the ground where I can install an ariel?

Easy! Put one up and see what you get!

and what ariel would folks recommend?

I'd use an aerial - detergent doesn't work very well - even if you're a Count!

Presumably, being a Count, your castle is on the top of a hill, which should
make things easy, provided your workshop is on the right side of the hill!

If you've read this far, you might have got the message by now that that the
only answers you can expect will be based on guesswork as we all exhausted our
powers of telepathy yonks ago. They will be of no use to you and a waste of
time to everybody else ...

Why not start again with some useful information - a reasonably precise
location, for example. A full PostCode doesn't identify you - and we're clean
out of battering rams at present - but you can leave off the last letter if you
don't mind the answers being less than accurate ...

What is the terrain like? Level? Rising/falling in the direction of Waltham?
You've mentioned houses - how far away? Any trees, etc.,?

Try this site:

http://www.macfh.co.uk/JavaJive/Audi...strialCalculat
or.php

or

http://tinyurl.com/32txwbo

and select the Google Map option. In satellite view at maximum zoom you can
drag the marker to the precise position of your shed and see exactly wghat is
in the way ...

--

Terry

On Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at 10:26:16h +0100, Count de Monet wrote:

How can I tell if I will receive a decent signal around the position
(around 15ft - 20ft) above the ground where I can install an ariel? and
what ariel would folks recommend?

If you have a clear view to the south east, why not just install
a satellite dish (600 mm) which can be at ground level, and then
you will not have to worry about antennas on poles getting blown
about in the gales which plague the East Midlands.

Count de Monet wrote:
I have just finished building my workshop and would like to install a TV
piont but the workshop is only small and there are other houses between
the workshop and the direction of the transmitter (Waltham)

It's too long a run and too difficult to get an extension from the house.

How can I tell if I will receive a decent signal around the position
(around 15ft - 20ft) above the ground where I can install an ariel? and
what ariel would folks recommend?

You can tell by installing an aerial on a temporary basis.

Bill

What about this:

eBay item# 360335905775

Is is a good aerial and good value?

In message on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:04:52 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:

Count de Monet wrote:

How can I tell if I will receive a decent signal around the position
(around 15ft - 20ft) above the ground where I can install an ariel? and
what ariel would folks recommend?

You can tell by installing an aerial on a temporary basis.


Or, as I said in my earlier post:

"Easy! Put one up and see what you get!"

--

Terry

Terry Casey wrote:
In message on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:04:52 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:
Count de Monet wrote:
How can I tell if I will receive a decent signal around the position
(around 15ft - 20ft) above the ground where I can install an ariel? and
what ariel would folks recommend?
You can tell by installing an aerial on a temporary basis.


Or, as I said in my earlier post:

"Easy! Put one up and see what you get!"

Yes, I have all incoming posts listed chronologically, and start at the
oldest, so I do tend to reply to things and then discover that someone
else had provided a better response, earlier. I suppose I ought to
re-organise myself and my 'puter.

Ohhh... secret! Don't tell her, but Hil's getting a new 'puter. The one
she has now is prehistoric. No sound, won't work properly with a modern
monitor, won't drive a second monitor, has a tiny hard drive, and so on.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Terry Casey wrote:
In message on Thu, 14 Apr
2011 16:04:52 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:
Count de Monet wrote:
How can I tell if I will receive a decent signal around the
position (around 15ft - 20ft) above the ground where I can
install an ariel? and what ariel would folks recommend?
You can tell by installing an aerial on a temporary basis.


Or, as I said in my earlier post:

"Easy! Put one up and see what you get!"

Yes, I have all incoming posts listed chronologically, and
start at the oldest, so I do tend to reply to things and then
discover that someone else had provided a better response,
earlier. I suppose I ought to re-organise myself and my 'puter.

Ohhh... secret! Don't tell her, but Hil's getting a new 'puter.
The one she has now is prehistoric. No sound, won't work
properly with a modern monitor, won't drive a second monitor,
has a tiny hard drive, and so on.

Bill



Is that via a hand in your pocket or her hand in her purse?



--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

Woody wrote:

Is that via a hand in your pocket or her hand in her purse?
We only got married because we lost track of who owed what to who.
Since then we've never had the concept of his and her money.

Bill