Sandy Heath - DSO2 (& HD)

As it was such a nice day, I thought I'd check out the TV in my garden
shed in north Cambridge..
The aerial is the small Labgear indoor (set-top) log periodic -
regularly available at car boots for 50p to £1. It was carefully
peaked on analogue (found a sweet spot) and a couple of elements
nailed to shed's wooden roof (about 8' above ground) with coax cable
clips.

The analogue picture was decent - some fine to moderate noise with
virtually no ghosting, but Ch5 crap.

Plugged in an Echostar T-101 box and was amazed.
Everything rock solid - except for Archiva A multiplex (Ch40, I think)
containing Sky News, Dave ja Vu, Talk Sport radio, etc. which were "in
and out".

I suppose I'll have to wait for high power on the COM multiplexes to
fix this. Surprised the other low power multiplexes were so good. I'm
not moving the aerial as that swet spot took a bit of finding. Maybe
it's not so sweet on Ch40 (standing waves).

In article , viewer
scribeth thus
As it was such a nice day, I thought I'd check out the TV in my garden
shed in north Cambridge..
The aerial is the small Labgear indoor (set-top) log periodic -
regularly available at car boots for 50p to £1. It was carefully
peaked on analogue (found a sweet spot) and a couple of elements
nailed to shed's wooden roof (about 8' above ground) with coax cable
clips.

The analogue picture was decent - some fine to moderate noise with
virtually no ghosting, but Ch5 crap.

As to be expected, its very poor from the Heath might be OK from
Madingley but shut down now..


Plugged in an Echostar T-101 box and was amazed.
Everything rock solid - except for Archiva A multiplex (Ch40, I think)
containing Sky News, Dave ja Vu, Talk Sport radio, etc. which were "in
and out".

I suppose I'll have to wait for high power on the COM multiplexes to
fix this. Surprised the other low power multiplexes were so good. I'm
not moving the aerial as that swet spot took a bit of finding. Maybe
it's not so sweet on Ch40 (standing waves).


May well be able to do that, the path is more or less LOS to Cambridge .

Surprised that the Arqiva MUX B was OK thats still up on CH 67...
--
Tony Sayer

viewer wrote:
As it was such a nice day, I thought I'd check out the TV in my garden
shed in north Cambridge..

I suppose I'll have to wait for high power on the COM multiplexes to
fix this. Surprised the other low power multiplexes were so good. I'm
not moving the aerial as that swet spot took a bit of finding. Maybe
it's not so sweet on Ch40 (standing waves).

If I'd sent that I would have called it 'shed loads of signal'.

Bill