New TV Aerial www.andysaerials.com

Posted by in Blog | April 1, 2014

  New TV Aerial www.andysaerials.com

At last were starting to think the summer has begun, and as you will see from the pictures they are taken with a beautiful blue sky background.  We have been involved with one of our customers for a new TV aerial system with a satellite dish to run several Sky boxes.  We discussed various options and our customer wanted a perfect Free-View signal and a 16way multi satellite switch fitting so they could use more than one Sky+ HD boxes and have the choice of viewing free-view if they so wished.  We need to fix an 80cm satellite dish for this so after looking at the available line of sight from our customer’s chimney stack, we decided the best location for the satellite dish would be the chimney stack.  I wanted to ensure both the new TV aerial and satellite dish would be secure and stay aligned for some years to come, so we used 2 x heavy duty chimney cradles each taking up 5 brick courses of the chimney stack, 10 brick courses in total, providing fantastic support for the 12ft 2” alloy mast.  We need to use a 12ft mast so we could spread the load of the new TV aerial and satellite dish through the chimney stack, probable 4ft or so was chimney height and the remaining 8ft was above the chimney stack, providing the necessary height for the new TV aerial and allowing us to mount the 80cm satellite dish between the 2 heavy duty large chimney cradles, providing an incredibly secure fix for our customer’s satellite dish.

New TV Aerial www.andysaerials.com

We chose to use our favourite Fracarro log-periodic w/b aerial for a couple of reasons; the log is aerodynamic and not a burden on the mast, it performs incredibly well and finally as it does not have any deflectors on the back it is very discreet, stealthy.  As the 80cm satellite dish was to run a satellite multi switch, we fitted a quatro L.N.B as to the normal quod L.N.B which is universal and has 4 outlets.  The quatro has a vertical high, vertical low, horizontal low and horizontal high, when fitted to the satellite multi switch provides the Sky receiver a route for the given viewing channel.  We were fortunate to work with a fantastic builder who ran the cables for the new TV aerial and satellite ready for us to connect to, taking a whole load of cable running away and allowing us to focus on achieving the best possible signals from both the new TV aerial and the new satellite dish.  We tested each and every cable at the ground and we were incredibly happy with the delivery of our signals, we are looking forward to returning and fitting the satellite multi-switch and testing the system.

 

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