New aerial installation Harlow Essex www.andysaerials.com

Posted by in Blog | April 1, 2013

New aerial installation Harlow Essex www.andysaerials.com

Easter Monday and I’m to a new aerial installation Harlow Essex, and the sun is starting to shine.  My customer wanted a new aerial installation and 2 points, one to the kitchen and the other to the spare bedroom.  I looked at the neighbouring aerials as I pulled up and decided a Blake DMX5 would be a good choice of aerial to install.

New aerial installation Harlow Essex www.andysaerials.com

With it still be windy I tied my ladders off to my customer’s guttering as I just knew they would blow down and didn’t want to risk getting stuck on their roof.  I made my way to their chimney stack and lashed it using my favourite heavy duty 5 brick course chimney cradle.  The views were beautiful, and I had to ask myself was winter finally going?

New aerial installation Harlow Essex www.andysaerials.com

With the chimney now ready for the Blake aerial, I headed back down to my van to assemble one and fit it to an 8ft 1” ½ alloy mast.  My smashing customer came out with a lovely strong cup of tea, and as it was a bank holiday I wasn’t on any time restriction and drank my tea with my customer and enjoyed him company.

New aerial installation Harlow Essex www.andysaerials.com

With the Blake now ready to go up on the roof I put my spectrum analyser over my back and climbed up the roof to the chimney stack.  I seated the pole in the chimney cradle and rotated the aerial 360degrees looking at all the possible signals and London was the winner with all 6 digital mux’s square and at 35db.  I selected a two way mast head variable gain and set it up with my spectrum maximising signal and ensuring minimal noise.

New aerial installation Harlow Essex www.andysaerials.com

I ran one cable direct into the loft for my customer to drop into their spare bedroom at a later date, and then I ran a 2nd cable down the roof to the rear of the house to the kitchen below.  A hole was ready and waiting for me so all I had to do was tac down my cable fit a rain loop push the cable through the hole, and seal with mastic which didn’t take too long at all.

New aerial installation Harlow Essex www.andysaerials.com

I fitted the 12v 100m/a remote power unit behind the kitchen TV and the set it up and my customers were delighted with their pictures.

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