supported by one of these, round a four chimney stack. They are also much easier to install for one not used to such things. Seems to be well galvanised too - mine is several years old but still looks good.
Loop it and feed over the top? May not be possible, of course. Or use some garden wire, etc, and tape it to that. The possibilities are endless. ;-)
Yes, I wasn't confident that I knew how to make-off the lashing wire properly and didn't want to risk it blowing down, but there's no doubt with the ratchets.
Yes, I did go for the 14" bracket rather than the one pictured, seems they do an in-between 9" size now too.
Still on the topic of aerials ... was it you that fitted a "decent" aerial for in-car DAB reception? If so, what's a ball-park figure and any web site pointers to what actually constitutes "decent"?
It's a roof mounted DAB, FM and AM aerial - active, with two amps, one for DAB one for everything else. I've just looked for the make but can't find it. Came from the makers in Wandsworth. Cost about 100 quid - but that was several years ago. They might well be cheaper these days. Tony Sayer is a better bet for knowing suppliers - IIRC he told me about this one.
A few years ago I fitted a gable-end external dipole aerial for DAB and have been disappointed occasionally _because_ of its good reception during anomalous propagation high-pressure ('lift' conditions) - the bedside DAB wireless set with its prety naff telescopic aerial working reasonably well whilst the main Rx was wiped out by co-channel stations. Obviously the BBC national SFN was fine; co-channel enhancing reception :-)
Thanks, is the basic design like this, or some sort of upturned porridge bowl on the roof?
And 95% of the time that's the only MUX I listen to.
I was hoping mobile coverage might be acceptable, but so far have been rather disappointed.
In article , Dave Plowman (News) scribeth thus
More than likely this lot. Give 'em a ring if your unsure at all which version U want...
In article , Frank Erskine scribeth thus
That seems to be the experience of a lot of people, the subject of co-channel interference. A single dipole isn't too good at rejecting other signals unlike a multi element array. Course the aerial inside may well be sufficient anyway so any extra is not required and may well cause problems..
I think a lot of people would say that DAB is a disappointment in general..
Thanks to Tony, I'd guess it's this one:-
I was hoping to get more consistent reception with DAB, rather than improved audio quality[1], in car FM is generally fine, but R5L on AM suffers from fading and distant stations interfering, from time-to-time and place-to-place.
[1] We are only talking about in-car listening here, but I do notice an annoying sort of "quantisation" noise on DAB stations, that varies from a metallic hissy ringing noise, to a mush that rises and falls with the speech and silence - I certainly don't notice that at home on DAB, so it could just be another shortcoming of the car's audio system in general.Anyway, thanks for the link, inexplicably I have a shark's fin aerial on the roof already (car doesn't have GPS or mobile phone and the AM/FM/DAB aerials all appear to be within the glass) so I might investigate replacing that with a dedicated DAB aerial.
I wasn't intending to buy a DAB radio, but a broken one came up on Freegle so I had it and fixed it.
Stationary in the kitchen, it's better than the FM radio it displaced, though it uses a lot more power. My main gripe with it is that there are plenty of cheap under-cabinet FM radios, but no DAB such that I can find.
When I run out of other things to do, I'll rebox it leaving just a power switch and a volume switch normally accessible.
I can only speak for the radio I have - Blaupunkt with the expensive aerial, but round and about London, DAB reception is miles superior to FM. On the stations I listen to. The actual audio quality ok too for in a car.
Might be that the car's audio system is showing up the DAB shortcomings. Its an olde out of date codec, ( bit like a 286 PC) thats not at all good at low bitrates like those in use nowadays. Better codecs exist but we're stuck with the current system.. And that doesn't look like changing any time soon whereas other countries are implementing DAB + which uses the AAC codec which is much better at lower bit rates...
In article , Dave Plowman (News) scribeth thus
Should be the number of Transmitters in use for it;!..
So you're criticising it for doing the job it was designed for? ;-)
In article , Dave Plowman (News) scribeth thus
It wasn't designed to be in use the way it is;!..
IIRC, one of the original remits was to improve mobile reception. And round here, it does.
In article , Dave Plowman (News) scribeth thus
Well thats your corner of the UK Dave and the reception around Balham seems to be dire so you tell us but out here its fine.
Yes it was intended to improve reception but it doesn't seem to improve the original audio that much;!..
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