08-09-2017, 08:42 AM
I'm not too happy with that aerial.
The directors nearest the camera seem to be in closely spaced pairs with a long space between each pair - if so, that is definitely wrong - they should be approximately equally spaced.
It's difficult to see from the photograph but that looks suspiciously like an aerial sold in the 'sheds' that has the directors punched out of thin sheet and has a folded dipole that looks strangely as if it is made from a length of flexible rule!
Being so close to a main transmitter I would expect much better results. I suggest you get the installer back to sort it. Ask him to show you the signal level measurements so that you can see that they are reasonable with no unexpected troughs (but bear in mind that not all muxes will be transmitted at the same level - you can check that in advance).
If he doesn't have a signal level measuring instrument, that would point to him being a cowboy - not all of them stick to the cheapest contract aerials!
By the way, have you checked that the coax is properly terminated? And if it is RG6 (bonded aluminium foil screen) or the superior PF100 type (copper foil screen) or even something completely different?
The directors nearest the camera seem to be in closely spaced pairs with a long space between each pair - if so, that is definitely wrong - they should be approximately equally spaced.
It's difficult to see from the photograph but that looks suspiciously like an aerial sold in the 'sheds' that has the directors punched out of thin sheet and has a folded dipole that looks strangely as if it is made from a length of flexible rule!
Being so close to a main transmitter I would expect much better results. I suggest you get the installer back to sort it. Ask him to show you the signal level measurements so that you can see that they are reasonable with no unexpected troughs (but bear in mind that not all muxes will be transmitted at the same level - you can check that in advance).
If he doesn't have a signal level measuring instrument, that would point to him being a cowboy - not all of them stick to the cheapest contract aerials!
By the way, have you checked that the coax is properly terminated? And if it is RG6 (bonded aluminium foil screen) or the superior PF100 type (copper foil screen) or even something completely different?
