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My mothers aerial has finally given up the ghost(ing) and deteriorated big style. She has never had all the freeview channels since she moved into her current house and I think the aerial has been there since the war, not sure which one mind you. Would seem the coax has gone brittle and started to crack, thinking that at one of the bends its snapped inside. Running the cabling is a doddle I can run all that no probs 'but I aint ev'r fitted no arial'.
Postcode is EH48 3PH
http://www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tvd.exe?DX=L&HT=10&OS=EH483PH
I have no idea what all that means though, just know it keeps being asked about in other threads Ive read.
I have 2 plans of attack.
1) Buy a Televés DAT 75 and stick it in the loft, but if that doesnt work then its a beast to mount outside somewhere and I dont want to be referred to as 'the son who brought the house down'.
2) Buy the following gear and try it from the loft, if that doesnt work then try upstairs outside for a wall mount and if all else fails pay a guy to replace the current one with it and simply drop the cable into the loft through a hole that can get siliconed watertight.
VIEW Digital Reception Optimised Aerial VIEWV10WB
MICROMARK Pre-Packed TV Aerial Wall Fixing Kit MM5495
MICROMARK Pre-Packed TV Aerial Mast MM5505
VIEW 4 Way TV and Satellite Splitter VIESLP409
or
2 X VIEW 2 Way TV and Satellite Splitter VIESLP204
50m of sat cable I already have.
I need to split the signal 3 ways. Im in 2 frames of mind and considering going for a 4 way splitter with a spare or splitting it to 2, running one into the livingroom (where I think theres no fewer than 3 freeview boxes with HDDs -she used to have 4 VCR + 2 HDD freeview box) while splitting the second into the 2 bedrooms of my brothers since they arent quite as TV daft and have a relatively sane 1 freeview box each. Im wondering what my best options are, you can see the tranmitters (like 2 giant goalposts) from the top of the town but she lives down in a bit of a dip. One person in the street has a triple yagi, one has a double and the rest are all single, I havent been there in ages and aerial spotting wasnt one of my hobbies so Im not entirely sure how big etc. the single ones are.
I guess Im wondering if anyone has advice on aerial type (Log periodic? WTF?) or perhaps what I can get away with. I am kinda tempted to just go for the DAT 75 with booster etc. and see if it fires up in the loft, but she would rather not go for powered one like that, but the line of sight is there for the transmitter ... apart from the great big dirty slope in between the house and them ... however she does get, or did get, most of the freeview channels with something that went out with MC Hammer and it runs multiple boxes, VCRs etc. so it cant be all that bad a signal.
Too many options and too little experience.
Postcode is EH48 3PH
http://www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tvd.exe?DX=L&HT=10&OS=EH483PH
I have no idea what all that means though, just know it keeps being asked about in other threads Ive read.
I have 2 plans of attack.
1) Buy a Televés DAT 75 and stick it in the loft, but if that doesnt work then its a beast to mount outside somewhere and I dont want to be referred to as 'the son who brought the house down'.
2) Buy the following gear and try it from the loft, if that doesnt work then try upstairs outside for a wall mount and if all else fails pay a guy to replace the current one with it and simply drop the cable into the loft through a hole that can get siliconed watertight.
VIEW Digital Reception Optimised Aerial VIEWV10WB
MICROMARK Pre-Packed TV Aerial Wall Fixing Kit MM5495
MICROMARK Pre-Packed TV Aerial Mast MM5505
VIEW 4 Way TV and Satellite Splitter VIESLP409
or
2 X VIEW 2 Way TV and Satellite Splitter VIESLP204
50m of sat cable I already have.
I need to split the signal 3 ways. Im in 2 frames of mind and considering going for a 4 way splitter with a spare or splitting it to 2, running one into the livingroom (where I think theres no fewer than 3 freeview boxes with HDDs -she used to have 4 VCR + 2 HDD freeview box) while splitting the second into the 2 bedrooms of my brothers since they arent quite as TV daft and have a relatively sane 1 freeview box each. Im wondering what my best options are, you can see the tranmitters (like 2 giant goalposts) from the top of the town but she lives down in a bit of a dip. One person in the street has a triple yagi, one has a double and the rest are all single, I havent been there in ages and aerial spotting wasnt one of my hobbies so Im not entirely sure how big etc. the single ones are.
I guess Im wondering if anyone has advice on aerial type (Log periodic? WTF?) or perhaps what I can get away with. I am kinda tempted to just go for the DAT 75 with booster etc. and see if it fires up in the loft, but she would rather not go for powered one like that, but the line of sight is there for the transmitter ... apart from the great big dirty slope in between the house and them ... however she does get, or did get, most of the freeview channels with something that went out with MC Hammer and it runs multiple boxes, VCRs etc. so it cant be all that bad a signal.
Too many options and too little experience.