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   Yet another scorching day and our customer has phoned and asked us for a new TV aerial, we were told they live at the top of a 4 story building and height was an issue.  We were as always happy to drive over and take a look.  It couldn’t have been hotter!  The roof tiles were scolding hot burnt our hands and our feet were most uncomfortable on the roof.  We took up our test aerial as we always do and took some signal readings for both signal quality and signal strength.  The digital signal was absolutely screaming in and we knew we would have to attenuate the signal, as too much signal is as bad as too little.  I couldn’t help but think why the building was littered with TV aerials and wondered why the building didn’t just have one?  My little log could happily provide a perfect digital signal to all rooms and floors of the building.  With the signal being so strong, I also wondered why all the other TV aerials had been fitted on 6ft masts?  I Decided to use an off cut in the back of my van which was a 1ft 2” alloy mast cut off (waste not want not), and thought keeping my aerial low would be discreet and not be the one hit by lightning!  It’s nice sometimes to be the odd one out, every other digital TV aerial on the building was wrong in my eyes, so I fitted our customer’s new digital TV aerial nice and low at least showing how an aerial installation should look.  We used a 13” heavy duty 5 brick course chimney cradle to support the 1ft 2” mast with our Fracarro log-periodic w/b aerial, and if you can find time to look at the pictures you will hopefully agree it looks neat.

New Digital TV aerial www.andysaerials.com

With the new digital TV aerial now electronically aligned with our spectrum analyser we started running our customer’s coax cable to their sitting room.  Once tacked down and entering our customer’s sitting room we once again plugged in our meter to take another reading to install the correct attenuator to ensure our customer’s equipment was not getting overloaded with our signal.  We re-tuned their YouView receiver and TV and started packing away.  Our ladders were fully extended and needed to lowered and put back on the roof of the van. We had a walk around to ensure we hadn’t left any rubbish, tape, cable ties etc. and then wrote our bill and headed back to the ice-cold van for a rewarding blast of cold air!  Call me direct for your New Digital TV Aerial 07916 305 977  Andy