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Personhappywalker
12/8/2010 at 2:04pm
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We have an aerial with rubber suckers on. It's great because my husband goes out to lick the suckers when it keeps falling off, whilst I sprawl out and relax.

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Wouldn't it be easier if you sat him in a tree holding the aerial?

 

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My Status aerial picks up Digital great, no problems at all


Personhappywalker
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Quote: Originally posted by cwdc56768 on 12/8/2010

Wouldn't it be easier if you sat him in a tree holding the aerial?

 

Phil

Excellent idea! It will save his feet (and tongue) a bit. He's so lucky to have such a caring wife - not that I'm blowing my own trumpet.

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PersonJax365
12/8/2010 at 5:19pm
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Quote: Originally posted by cwdc56768 on 12/8/2010

"Remember you will have to retune/search for channels every time for every different location. My parents didn't know this and just assumed their tv or aerial didn't work (they had tuned it in at home), until I re-tuned it for them."

Oh dear, bless......they didn't also turn the caravan round and round to get a signal did they?

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It wouldn't have supprised me if they had! They aren't technical minded at all. Thing is, I still don't know where their aerial is? Not on the roof, not sticking out anywhere... but it works anyway!

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PersonJax365
12/8/2010 at 5:22pm
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Quote: Originally posted by happywalker on 12/8/2010
We have an aerial with rubber suckers on. It's great because my husband goes out to lick the suckers when it keeps falling off, whilst I sprawl out and relax.
LOL...

That's the same as mine. I don't bother with the suckers, I just chuck it on the roof these days! It stays put and doesn't slide down though, so the suckers must have a bit of grip!

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Thanks for your comments Steve2020 it winds me up as well.

The bungalow opposite me has now sprouted an expensive looking log periodic and frankly we are about 10 miles as the crow flies from a 500megawatt transmitter with clear line of sight - a piece of damp string would do the job! Sadly the bungalow opposite belongs to an elderly lady living alone and I suspect someone has convinced her she needed that when she clearly doesn't. I bet they had to fit an attenuater at the TV because there would be too much signal!

Bet she didn't get much change out of 100quid!

D


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"Saw someone on a site setting up satellite... took him over an hour, then only foreign sites... yes he had 90-odd channels.. none in English, so I presume he had tuned into the wrong satellite...."

With the correct equipment it should take a few minutes to find the Astra2d satellite at 28.2.

THe problems faced in trying to line up the dish with teh correct satellite are:-

1. Caravan satellite kits tend to come with small dishes which are have a fairly wide beam angle meaning you can easily point it at the wrong satellite. There are 5 satellites in the space of a few degrees either side of the Astra 2D one.

2. The satellite finder supplied in these kits will respond to any satellite so it could be any one of those five (Arabsat, Hotbird, Astra 2D, Astra 1, Eutelsat) freeview is only available onry Astra2D the rest carry mainly foriegn channels).

To address this the correct equipment is a must. A decent compass and a proper satellite finder like this.

As you will see it is relatively expensive but it will only react to the satellite you choose from the menu. It can test your LNB, you just plug the dish into it and go. You get signal strength and quality readouts. This way you know when you plug the dish into the receiver it WILL work and no retuning will be necessary.

Saves countless hours of guess work.

D


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Hi - Just changed Freedom to a 1996 Eldis Vogue with a Status TV aerial.

I have a new digital Freeview TV.

What equipment do I need for this combination to work or do I need to update the aerial?

Well - It worked -

Plugged in the Staus aerial, let the TV tune itself and received the usual 5 channels and 6/7 Freeview ones. Didn't need to buy the £13 pound long aerial leads on sale at the camp shop - to be plugged into the power towers as they had a built-in aerial setup!

Thanks for all the help - brilliant holiday as the weather in the Lakes was SUNNY, Yes I said SUNNY. The van towed a treat and it would have been a brilliant holiday  . . except for the TWELVE faults we found with the caravan . .  but that will be the subject of a separate rant .



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Saved your self a few quid coming on here as well. You don't get faults with a caravan its an education....

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My status aerial has worked 100% on 3 out of the 4 sites I have tried a digital TV on. On one site the signal strength was only sufficient for BBC channels. A separate aerial may or may not have been more successful. It really does depend on the location. Unlike analogue, a DTV channel either works or it doesn't.

Be aware that the Status come with an amplifier that needs to be switched on. Also it may have a 'low' setting switch that's supposed to protect from too strong a signal. Make sure that's set to 'normal'. As has been said, you always need to re-tune the TV which is really easy with DTV. Your TV may have a signal strength option somewhere in the menu to check if you're interested.

The status aerial was usually hopeless previously with an analogue TV and I'm surprised how good it now seems to be with digital most of the time.

Also, I got more digital channels than at home before upgrading that aerial.

When the digital switch-over is complete we are told that all channel strengths will be increased so that should improve the situation.



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I was born and brought up in Barnsley, South Yorks whose proximity to the UK's tallest free-standing structure (Emley Moor transmitter), ensured you got a fantastic picture with a paper clip stuck in the back of your telly.

Until I moved away from there (to the West Country) I never realised TV reception could be so variable in its quality around the country - we don't always take our TV with us(certainly not abroad) but when we do I have to say setting the aerial up and getting a good picture is THE most frustrating thing about pitching up.

I've got a T800 mentioned (Image 530/18-2)and it's OK at best matched with a Toshiba LCD with built in digital, I must admit I'm thinking about a Sat system.


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"Be aware that the Status come with an amplifier that needs to be switched on. Also it may have a 'low' setting switch that's supposed to protect from too strong a signal. Make sure that's set to 'normal'. As has been said, you always need to re-tune the TV which is really easy with DTV. Your TV may have a signal strength option somewhere in the menu to check if you're interested."

It is as well to remember that the amplifier also has a low setting. It is possible to get too much signal which will cause the tv to block with the result that you won't get many / if any channels. Always worth trying with the amplifier on its low setting if you are having problems because too much signal is just as bad as too little!

D


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Quote: Originally posted by Jax365 on 12/8/2010
Quote: Originally posted by happywalker on 12/8/2010
We have an aerial with rubber suckers on. It's great because my husband goes out to lick the suckers when it keeps falling off, whilst I sprawl out and relax.
LOL...

That's the same as mine. I don't bother with the suckers, I just chuck it on the roof these days! It stays put and doesn't slide down though, so the suckers must have a bit of grip!
From now on it will be chucked onto the roof.

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