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DTT Lost

  • 17-12-2006 9:58pm
    #1
    curryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭


    Need help. Was reciveing the DDT trials during the summer on rabbits ears crystal clear. Now cant recieve a thing, do i just need new rabbits ears or different aerial. old rabbit ears are at least ten to fifteen years old. Living in a bungelow in Deansgrange betwen Foxrock Church and Bakers corner if thats a help.


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  • #2
    byrnefm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 892 ✭✭✭byrnefm


    Odd - just today I changed over from using a coat hanger (really!) to using rabbit ears and the signal strength is excellent here in Stillorgan. I had to fully extend the rabbit ears, put them in parallel and twist them clockwise until the signal strength reached its maximum. Are you not getting even a sliver of reception?


  • #3
    curryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭curryman


    on a clear day if i hold the rabbits ears up and turn them i sometimes get recption but if i lower them it goes again


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Burn the rabbit and and get a real aerial in attic or outdoor. Or the mini-UHF yagi set-top aerial (black plastic with wide strip aerial, small reflector and about 3 director rods.) in room or attic.


  • #5
    curryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭curryman


    Cheers Watty. Ill prob go the mini-UHF yagi set-top aerial any idea where i can get this and a rough price.


  • #6
    satgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭satgirl


    watty wrote:
    Burn the rabbit and and get a real aerial in attic or outdoor. Or the mini-UHF yagi set-top aerial (black plastic with wide strip aerial, small reflector and about 3 director rods.) in room or attic.
    I'm using a Kworld USB stick with the 4 inch magnetic aerial, that came with it, stuck to a metal desk beside a south-facing window. Signal is 100% in Raheny, Dublin.

    Cost 65 euro. in Maplin.

    A friend in the radio business once told me that magnetic mount aerials became more efficient when attached to a metal base.


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  • #7
    curryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭curryman


    Burn the rabbit and and get a real aerial in attic or outdoor. Or the mini-UHF yagi set-top aerial (black plastic with wide strip aerial, small reflector and about 3 director rods.) in room or attic.

    Watty where can i get one of the mini-UHF yagi set-top aerial,s and roughly what will it cost


  • #8
    DMC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    Curryman, what make is your box and did you do a re-scan?


  • #9
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    curryman wrote:
    Watty where can i get one of the mini-UHF yagi set-top aerial,s and roughly what will it cost

    Almost anywhere (Co-op, maplins, B&Q, Homebase, currys ) under 10 Euro


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