Attic Aerial

Joey the lips

Hi Folks

Living in Duleek. Front of house faces south. All the sat dishes are on the front. Want to get an aerial and go completly free view.

Want to put the aerial in the attic.

Anyone have any experience of doing this. What tyoe did you use.

Info apprecited.

Any way of testing signal before i buy expensive aerial.

Thanks

John mac

Joey the lips wrote: »

Hi Folks

Living in Duleek. Front of house faces south. All the sat dishes are on the front.

Want to put the aerial in the attic.

You cant put a sat dish in the attic(well you can but it wont pick up anything)

aerial in attic should work fine , any houses around with aerials?

what direction are they pointing?

Joey the lips

John mac wrote: »

You cant put a sat dish in the attic(well you can but it wont pick up anything)

aerial in attic should work fine , any houses around with aerials?

what direction are they pointing?

They are pointing into louth. Do you know what aerial you would suggest and is there a signal tester that I can buy that is cheap,

danjo

Take a look at

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=227864

or

Google "FRINGE PRO SATELLITE AND TERRESTRIAL SIGNAL METER" for a dual terrestrial and satellite meter.

Joey the lips

Thank you. So in theory I could spend 50 Euro on an aerial and 25 on the meter and still not have an acceptabe signal.....


The joys.

gtg60

Are you going to be viewing the Irish channels via DTT? As you can get them perfect even if the analogue is questionable.

I bought one of those contract aerials, you know the ones that are a tenner, put it in the attic, used the signal meter built into my DTT receiver, set it up and works perfect (for DTT, analogue is useless), I wouldn't bother shelling out for a meter.

coylemj

Joey the lips wrote: »

Thank you. So in theory I could spend 50 Euro on an aerial and 25 on the meter and still not have an acceptabe signal.....
The joys.

You're right to be sceptical about the economics of the deal, go out and buy a wideband from Maplin and stick it the attic, this one will do and it's only 40 euros. Nobody can say if it will give you good reception but it's worth a try......

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=217681

coylemj

Forgot to mention that Clermont Carn is vertical so the aerial needs to be rotated 90 degrees so that all the bits in the picture that are horizontal are actually vertical when you mount it. If you can get hold of a magnetic compass, the direction to Clermont Carn from Duleek is 13 degrees magnetic which is more or less north.

Joey the lips

coylemj wrote: »

Forgot to mention that Clermont Carn is vertical so the aerial needs to be rotated 90 degrees so that all the bits in the picture that are horizontal are actually vertical when you mount it. If you can get hold of a magnetic compass, the direction to Clermont Carn from Duleek is 13 degrees magnetic which is more or less north.

Does that mean you have the 2 flaps on the aerial pointing towards your arms instead of your head and feet. If that makes sense.