I'm planning to put an aerial in a loft, slate tiled roof. The signal is pretty good where I am, and I can get all channels at the top of the house using a cheap internal aerial. Downstairs is less reliable.
Thinking of one of these:
and cable, which will run externally from the eaves down a wall:
Are they decent choices for this installation?
Can you physically get something that large that in the loft without the aerial hitting some obstruction and being in the optimum location?.
If you can get all channels with a "cheap internal aerial" consider a short log periodic for the loft which can be installed with minimal space available.
Example
Nexans data sheet with zero specifications list this cable as "INDOOR CABLE"
Look at the PF100 on screwfix site or go for Webro WF100.
Try these people, plenty of good advice and reasonable prices.
Richard
Should be fine.
I ended up with a log periodic because IIRC it was a tad smaller and Sudbury had then a pretty broad range of frequencies in use. I think today that reallocation means that is no longer the case.
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2+ if required! Very knowledgeable lot them:)
They even seem to have mended the website so text doesn't wrap horridly with extra scroll bars where paragraphs sit beside images :-)
They don't have a very high opinion of bacofoil aeriels like the ones flogged by Labgear.
You might be better off with a log-periodic aerial if you are within 20 miles or so of the xmitter. It is less bulky, without the massive reflector.
Many thanks - will do. They've got a loft kit - and they're just up the road from me.
If you go for a log periodic some come pre-wired (with a short bit of cable) and terminate in a F plug. Otherwise the wire runs up the array boom and the connections are under the plastic cover at the opposite end to the mounting pole. You may need to buy some F plugs while purchasing the aerial/cable
I suggest you use a log periodic.
Bill
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