New Aerial Replacement Brentwood Essex www.andysaerials.com

Thursday morning and were off to a new aerial replacement Brentwood Essex.  When we arrived we were pleased to see a nice square chimney stack with an old B group aerial hardly working.  We chatted to our customer who wanted to receive all of the Freeview digital channels, our customer was aware they were in a poor signal area and was surrounded by tall trees which affects the digital signal.  We took some test readings with our test aerial and spectrum analyser, and decided we needed to use a 12ft 2” alloy mast to achieve the height required to grab a good base signal for us to work with.  We chose an Antiference XG10 w/b aerial with the given signal readings from our spectrum analyser.  As we were using a 12ft 2” alloy mast we needed to double lash our customer’s chimney stack and used 2 heavy duty large chimney cradles, which covered 10 brick courses of our customer’s chimney stack.

New Aerial Replacement Brentwood Essex www.andysaerials.com

We fitted the 2 large chimney cradles and ensured they both fitted and made a pair as if they did not, they would not offer the support and strength we wanted.  We carried the Antiference XG10 up the roof to the chimney stack and electronically aligned the aerial to Sudbury Anglia as the London signal was absolutely shocking!  We achieved a good base signal which we were happy with and fitted a masthead pre-amp to lift the signal to the correct values and fire it down to our customer’s TV.  We carry an assortment of amps and masthead pre-amps on our vans, giving us a wide choice of brands, gain and noise values, hopefully having the correct amp for each job, as 2 jobs are never the same.

New Aerial Replacement Brentwood Essex www.andysaerials.com

We set up our 2^nd set of ladders at the back of our customer’s house and choose a discreet route for our aerial coax cable to be run.  We used wf100 copper on copper on copper keeping our loss of signal to a minimum.  Once on the ground we discreetly brought our aerial cable into our customer’s sitting room and fitted the remote 12v 100m/a remote power supply unit to provide the masthead pre-amp with a power supply.  We connected our custom’s TV to our fly-lead and re-tuned their TV.  Both us and our customers were delighted with the perfect pictures on their TV.  We packed away our kit and cleared up our rubbish, wrote our bill and set off to our next call.