alanh Posted July 15, 2010 Posted July 15, 2010 " My reception has been getting worse and worse over the 3 years I've lived in my house. I know the cabling is old so I think I will have a crack at fixing it myself. I just want to check what I'm about to do is correct and I also have a few questions which I'm hoping someone can help me on. Currently I have: Telescopic mast (3 x 10' sections )...which is one concern of mine. It seems like this will be a dangerous job getting to the antennas. On my mast I have: UHF antenna VHF antenna - looks pretty broken and 1 other small one, which I assume is for FM. There looks to be a masthead amp up there (it's pretty high up so hard to tell). The cabling runs down to under the house where it goes into a kingsway powersupply and then into a Hills indoor 15dB FM/VHF/UHF amplifier. There seems to be a fair bit of cabling under the house (probably for old connections) and it goes into an old splitter as well. The cabling is plain old coax cable by the looks of it. In my living room there is an outlet there with 2 sockets. One is for the TV and one is for my stereo (FM). What I was thinking of doing was: Bring down the telescopic mast and take off the VHF antenna. I only need (for TV) bands 4+5 (North Head/Manly digital) from what I worked out. Will my current UHF antenna work? Bringing the mast down and taking it up will be dangerous so I only really want to do this once, I don't want to muck around trying things out. All my neighbours have masthead amps and I imagine mine is pretty old, so while I'm there I will replace it. This is where I'm a little unsure. I want to receive FM as well as UHF. What should I get? I will run new RG6 cable all the way through with F connectors....if that's possible with the old antenna Will I need another indoor amplifier, if so, can I reuse the one that's there? I do need to have 3 TV outlets in the house How does the 2 socket outlet in the living room split the FM signal from the TV signals? I mean, what do I need to buy to do this again? TIA" Firstly read Get the best reception - Sydney The Bouddi signals need a different antenna compared to that from Manly. See the Transmitter list, The coverage area link will give you coverage area maps to help you decide. You may need to replace the FM antenna or use a Band 3 Yagi and a DAB+ digital radio instead. Replacing guide masts is dangerous, particularly installing the new one. I suggest you get an antenna installer who can also measure the digital error rates. AlanH
alanh Posted July 15, 2010 Author Posted July 15, 2010 Beach boy, Read what I said. What non digital equipment do I have? AlanH
debruis Posted July 15, 2010 Posted July 15, 2010 "My reception has been getting worse and worse over the 3 years I've lived in my house. I know the cabling is old so I think I will have a crack at fixing it myself. I just want to check what I'm about to do is correct and I also have a few questions which I'm hoping someone can help me on. Currently I have: Telescopic mast (3 x 10' sections )...which is one concern of mine. It seems like this will be a dangerous job getting to the antennas. On my mast I have: UHF antenna VHF antenna - looks pretty broken and 1 other small one, which I assume is for FM. There looks to be a masthead amp up there (it's pretty high up so hard to tell). The cabling runs down to under the house where it goes into a kingsway powersupply and then into a Hills indoor 15dB FM/VHF/UHF amplifier. There seems to be a fair bit of cabling under the house (probably for old connections) and it goes into an old splitter as well. The cabling is plain old coax cable by the looks of it. In my living room there is an outlet there with 2 sockets. One is for the TV and one is for my stereo (FM). What I was thinking of doing was: Bring down the telescopic mast and take off the VHF antenna. I only need (for TV) bands 4+5 (North Head/Manly digital) from what I worked out. Will my current UHF antenna work? Bringing the mast down and taking it up will be dangerous so I only really want to do this once, I don't want to muck around trying things out. All my neighbours have masthead amps and I imagine mine is pretty old, so while I'm there I will replace it. This is where I'm a little unsure. I want to receive FM as well as UHF. What should I get? I will run new RG6 cable all the way through with F connectors....if that's possible with the old antenna Will I need another indoor amplifier, if so, can I reuse the one that's there? I do need to have 3 TV outlets in the house How does the 2 socket outlet in the living room split the FM signal from the TV signals? I mean, what do I need to buy to do this again? TIA" Firstly read Get the best reception - Sydney The Bouddi signals need a different antenna compared to that from Manly. See the Transmitter list, The coverage area link will give you coverage area maps to help you decide. You may need to replace the FM antenna or use a Band 3 Yagi and a DAB+ digital radio instead. Replacing guide masts is dangerous, particularly installing the new one. I suggest you get an antenna installer who can also measure the digital error rates. AlanH I have many installations on the Nth Beaches. I do not understand why you need diferent antennas for Manly and Bouddi as both towers are UHF. Maybe differents Mast amplifiers depending on where you are located
alanh Posted July 16, 2010 Author Posted July 16, 2010 Beach Boy, This is a figment of your imagination. AlanH
OakenShield1 Posted July 16, 2010 Posted July 16, 2010 FFS guys this sort of thing is driving me nuts on here!
charlesc Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 Beach Boy,This is a figment of your imagination. AlanH I think it came from these posts. http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtop...t&p=1541350 Sorry Beach Boy ,I think you're wrong.I remember Alan admitted a few years ago that he had installed his own antenna and If I remember correctly ,he used an MHU44g masthead amp.This sticks in my head because I thought at the time it was a shitload of gain for a domestic install. Funny that I have mentioned this to you before on a previous thread that you started that suddenly got deleted off this forum.Whats going on ?Confidentiality again ? http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtop...t&p=1541797 ...BelloTV, You are correct and you missed out on the MDA20H at the splitting point, and this is all because I live in an area which has 12 Volts/metre (98 dBuV/m) of AM radio transmissions. Without using very high TV signal strength on the cables the AM radio makes DTV very unreliable which now only breaks up occasionally. You don't get these techniques on the internet.
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