New aerial Ingatestone Essex www.andysaerials.com

Saturday 2^nd call to Ingatestone for a new aerial, when we arrived there was an A group Yargi on a 6” chimney bracket which was wearing away the brickwork of the chimney stack.  The roof was a long, long one with biscuit tiles, my roof climber was not long enough for this roof but with a little over leaning I got the ladder hooked on the ridge of the roof.  The views were lovely only it was still over cast and no sign of sunshine.  I collected from my van a large chimney cradle and lashing kit and set off up the roof to the ridge, walking along the ridge I got to the lovely little chimney stack, where I sat and made myself comfortable while I attached the lashing kit to the chimney cradle.  With the chimney now lashed I put a Facarro log-periodic w/b aerial on an 8ft 1” ½ alloy mast and neatly taped the coax cable down the pole.  I fitted the aerial and mast to the large chimney cradle and plugged the aerial into my spectrum analyser; I was disappointed to see 2 of the digital mux’s weaker than the other 4. The weak mux’s were 38db and the other 4 were 44db and I needed 2 TV points from the signal so I had to use a 2way masthead pre-amp.  I decided to run the coax cable from the aerial into the loft and fit the masthead inside.

New aerial Ingatestone Essex www.andysaerials.com

With my ladders now put back on my van we went into the loft and stapled the aerial cable to a central point by the loft hatch for future easy access, I fitted a 2way masthead giving each leg 10db and drilled out of the loft gable end wall, and ran an aerial cable neatly down to the sitting room.  The 2^nd cable was easily dropped through the ceiling into an office.  My customer told me there was to be a cupboard fitted to the wall and the cable would never be seen, so I was happy.  I fitted the 12v 100m/a remote power supply for the 2way masthead, tested my points and tuned the TV.  As always lovely pictures and delighted customers.