Re: Kid of OT: digital TV reception and antennas

[Paul K]

A signal strength booster for around $50 from DSE helped my situation
which was similar.
Double insulated cable and F-Type connectors were also required.
All of these things incrementally improved the situation, I now only
have issues with channel 9 and mainly during ADs! Hehe, so no real
probs there then ;-)
Go figure, my current theory is that 'white' is the culprit as the
Winter Olympics were almost unwatchable, so anything on 9 which is
bright has issues.
Not really fussed.

Good luck
Paul


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Re: Kid of OT: digital TV reception and antennas

[Paul Weaver]

Make your own cheaply. Cheers, Paul: 




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Re: Kid of OT: digital TV reception and antennas

[Ray Forma]

Mark,

You should be getting good reception at UWA, even inside buildings,  
with just a simple tuned dipole plugged into an EyeTV stick with a  
metre or so of coax cable. I have done so when demonstrating my setup  
quite deep in the Physics building.


ABC digital Perth broadcasts on Channel 12 =  226.5 MHz which needs a  
dipole with 662 mm arms


SBS digital Perth broadcasts on Channel 29 = 536.625 MHz, which needs  
a dipole with 279 mm arms


In real problem buildings you may need a more professional antenna.  
Such antennae are complex and difficult to source because of the big  
difference between the wavelength of Ch 12 compared with Ch 29.


On 28/07/2010, at 11:07 , Mark Secker wrote:

Can anyone recommend an internal or non rooftop external antenna  
for digital TV reception?


About 2 years ago I moved house and lost digital TV reception on my  
elgatto DTT  stick... Even plugged in to the old roof antenna it  
only showed sporadic low signal strength and the software wouldn’t   
auto tune to anything more than Channel 7 and 10.


Recently the building site next to me when to 2 floor high and then  
was roofed at which time I also lost analogue reception on ABC and  
SBS on my TV (the only two stations I generally watch).


Unfortunately my broadband is too slow to stream TV either  
(watching ABC  feeds is painful as  buffering is disabled and it  
takes 3 seconds to download 1 second of video/audio)







mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au
Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU)
Teaching Facilities Administrator
Business School IT Services

The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G
M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009
Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055,










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Kid of OT: digital TV reception and antennas

[Mark Secker]

Can anyone recommend an internal or non rooftop external antenna for digital
TV reception?

About 2 years ago I moved house and lost digital TV reception on my elgatto
DTT  stick... Even plugged in to the old roof antenna it only showed
sporadic low signal strength and the software wouldn¹t  auto tune to
anything more than Channel 7 and 10.

Recently the building site next to me when to 2 floor high and then was
roofed at which time I also lost analogue reception on ABC and SBS on my TV
(the only two stations I generally watch).

Unfortunately my broadband is too slow to stream TV either (watching ABC
feeds is painful as  buffering is disabled and it takes 3 seconds to
download 1 second of video/audio)


  



mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au
Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU)
Teaching Facilities Administrator
Business School IT Services

The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G
M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009
Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055,










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