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I turned up at my customer’s property on time to see what need to be done, they had a beautiful state of the art Panasonic 42 L.ED HD TV in the main sitting room and a mirrored Sky+ box in the front sitting room which they could not record on as there was only one dish feed and there need to be two.

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I went to one of the flats the week before to inspect the aerial system and found the tenants fly lead to be at fault from the wall socket to the TV.

Although the flats had a new system it was wired in a loop system which is an old fashioned way of doing it with today’s leap in technology.  The top flat 3^rd floor would be attenuated by say 20db and then the 2^nd floor attenuated by 10db and the ground floor no attenuation at all.

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When I looked at the signal with my spectrum analyser on the first visit I found a broken connection with the tenants fly lead from the wall socket to their TV I replaced it re-tuned their Humax recorder and TV and off I went to my other jobs of the day.  I was surprized to have a 2^nd call from the property management company stating there was still signal issues.

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After thinking about it overnight I returned the next morning believing it must be interference as the face sockets were not isolated (isolated socket allow signal through but do not allow any return) so maybe one of the buildings residents had an old TV with a common fault of it leaking voltage to the chassis of the TV set and flowing out of the coax into the aerial system?

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With that in mind I went on the roof and installed a Fringe Combined Low Loss Inductive Splitter which is a fantastic splitter with a through leg for DC pass.  Tried and tested over the past 18years by myself and colleagues, I know it will outlast my 5year guarantee I give with all my work.

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1st job Saturday morning new aerial installation Chelmsford Essex a very cold morning but dry.  Our customer was a smashing chap and provided us with hot tea and biscuits ( diet still not doing too well!)  Lovely roof to walk on and a nice square chimney stack.  We fitted a 13″ 5 brick course chimney bracket and large u bolts, with the chimney stack being small it was easy to lash.

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Our aerial move in Mayland Essex CM3 was a joy if only all houses came with scaffolding and an all weather protector our job would be so much easier!  We fitted the log-periodic wb aerial back in early 2011 along with 5 points to various rooms, and now our customer is having a large extension to their  beautiful house and needed the aerial moving from the original gable end  to the new gable end.

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Simple job considering scaffolding up and easy access to both gable ends, the scaffolding even came with the  use of ladders!   No carrying heavy ladders for us, Which made access to the aerial easy and safe.

Once we had undone the large u bolts which hold the aerial pole to the brackets we slid the  aerial and pole out. We then removed the  T & K wall brackets and sealed the holes in the brickwork with silicon sealer.  We then relocate the T & K wall brackets to the new gable end, using new bolts and mungo’s.

we re-wired the aerial so there were no joins in the cable as the main aerial feed to the amp is the heart of any system.  Sometimes its easier to do things properly than it is to just cut, join and waterproof and it looks much nicer too!

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A new aerial install at Hutton Brentwood Essex I struggle putting up an aerial with the limited room on the stack and then the neighbor asks if he can have an aerial too, to which we always reply yes!

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