New aerial installation Hatfield Peverel Essex www.andysaerials.com

Roll on March and sunny days!  Yes it was as cold as it looks, and this customer won first prize for having the best biscuit selection at a new aerial install Hatfield Peverel Essex!  I quoted this job on Tuesday and booked it in for Thursday, the aerial signal was incredibly poor all the surrounding aerials were on 20ft masts which is never a good sign.

New aerial installation Hatfield Peverel Essex www.andysaerials.com

We took down his Antiference XG16 and replaced it with a Blake DMX10w/b aerial and re-fitted it on the customer’s 16ft 2” alloy mast.  For strength I double lashed the chimney stack using 2 lashing kits to spread the load of the aerial onto the chimney, 3 of the digital mux’s from Sudbury were good but the remaining 3 were weak and spiked.  I fitted a Televes’ 29db wide band mast head which has a low noise ratio to bring in the three poor digital mux’s.  Once I was happy with the signal I cabled the aerial into the large loft where I fitted an Antiference 6way pro-amp giving a further 8db to each point.

New aerial installation Hatfield Peverel Essex www.andysaerials.com

I renewed the cable to the sitting room where the Sky+HD box was situated and ran an uplink cable to the master bedroom where a Sky eye was fitted.  The Sky box had issues and as I have discovered over the years they do travel and do not like to be moved.  I could not get a good analogue signal out of the Sky+HD box and tried every frequency from ch21 to ch68 and its best output was on ch35 which I stored and used.

New aerial installation Hatfield Peverel Essex www.andysaerials.com

We ran three further cables to three bedrooms and set-up the TV’s which went well although one of the TV’s refused to store the BBC channels which was extremely annoying but after completing a manual tune it took it and worked perfectly thankfully.

New aerial installation Hatfield Peverel Essex www.andysaerials.com

As the Antiference 6way pro-amp provides a 12v power supply there was no need to fit a 12v remote power supply, keeping the cabling nice and tidy.  We stapled all the coax leads in the loft as there was very little loft installation and guessed it would be high on my customer’s to do list.  Cables look much nicer stapled along the rafters than they do just run across the floor and there is less chance of someone snagging them keeping the aerial system problem free and reducing the possibility of mice eating them.

Along with our customers we were happy with the aerial system but it was one of those jobs where everything was difficult!