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swerv: Hi All, hope you can help. I am getting very poor Freeview HD reception here in Raumati South. Have bought a new brand new 'One For All' brand UHF ariel -Model no SV9355 which cost $200. It has a 28db triple boom and wideband. The guys at Harvey Norman said it would do the trick. It is mounted about 2M above the roof pointed in the direction of Ngarara. Obviously I cant pinpoint the specific direction but have pointed it in the same direction as the neighbours ariel and moved it around and get a very 'snowy' picture. At best I get 6 TV channels and no radio channels. I have an LG full HD TV, model no 42LD560. Is it the ariel direction, height, or am I in a little pocket of Raumati South that has poor reception. I'm in Glen Rd if that's any help, Any ideas please? cheers
BraaiGuy:
I ended up going onto google maps and looking at the exact location of the transmitter from my house and then I estimated a direction. I then used a compass and pointed my areal accurately as possible. This worked, and I now receive all channels. I am interested to hear if there is any tool that can be used for this, maybe an app? As I have a compass on my android phone.
nickb800:BraaiGuy:
I ended up going onto google maps and looking at the exact location of the transmitter from my house and then I estimated a direction. I then used a compass and pointed my areal accurately as possible. This worked, and I now receive all channels. I am interested to hear if there is any tool that can be used for this, maybe an app? As I have a compass on my android phone.
I do something similar to this, I use google earth and the ruler tool to draw a line between the antenna on my house and the transmitter. I then find a close landmark that the line runs through, such as the peak of a neighbours roof, and aim the antenna for that. Not hugely accurate but great if you dont have LOS with the transmitter
swerv: Thanks very much to all you guys for your advice, It has been a FANTASTIC wealth of information. I have RG-6 cable which is in good nick. My tv definetly has built in freeview. I will investigate/experiment things further. Just found out my neighbour who has a smaller arial than mine gets a great picture. Turn's out he has a masthead amplifier to boost his signal! I'm in that position now where I'm saying to myself 'do I spend another $70 on a masthead amplifier and hope that it works or do I get a tv guy out'. I don't want to 'cave in' to the latter idea! cheers
cyril7: Try best I could get out of google maps
lat=-40.857886 lon=175.049350
Cyril
nickb800:
I do something similar to this, I use google earth and the ruler tool to draw a line between the antenna on my house and the transmitter. I then find a close landmark that the line runs through, such as the peak of a neighbours roof, and aim the antenna for that. Not hugely accurate but great if you dont have LOS with the transmitter
cyril7: Try best I could get out of google maps
lat=-40.857886 lon=175.049350
Cyril
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