Home made ariel?

Cabaal

quick question lads,
Up until now I've had no need for rte/network 2, but wife wants it for something and I won't get the chance to buy an a proper ariel in the next day or so.

I've a sat decoder but while it picks up RTE etc they are scrambled, my tv has a digital decoder in it so I can receive RTE digital without an additional box.

What can I use as a ariel solution? I've tried a coat hanger and I get a partial digital signal....sound and picture keeps breaking up.

What would work best?

watty

http://www.saortv.info/terrestrial-saorview/installing-tv-aerial/

If either of those don't work get a proper outdoor aerial installed.

Coathangers are too heavy and fat. They break the socket. They are also wrong size and steel (poor conductor) as well as too close to tv.

winston_1

Cabaal wrote: »

quick question lads,
Up until now I've had no need for rte/network 2, but wife wants it for something and I won't get the chance to buy an a proper ariel in the next day or so.

I've a sat decoder but while it picks up RTE etc they are scrambled, my tv has a digital decoder in it so I can receive RTE digital without an additional box.

What can I use as a ariel solution? I've tried a coat hanger and I get a partial digital signal....sound and picture keeps breaking up.

What would work best?

Ariel is sold in general stores and is for washing clothes and a solution of it will not get RTE 2.

What would work best: an outdoor aerial professionally installed on the roof as the broadcasters intended. You spent a lot of money on your TV, don't scamp on a decent aerial installation.
Saorsat is another alternative.

watty

It's the 21st C. Internet and mad spelunking chequers programmed by cute cats*.

He can get a real aerial if the 50c or €6 solutions on the link don't work. As indeed the link suggests.

(*Prefect spelt sentience their above)

Oscarziggy

winston_1 wrote: »

Ariel is sold in general stores and is for washing clothes and a solution of it will not get RTE 2.

don't scamp on a decent aerial installation.

As you are constantly correcting people for the spelling of AERIAL would you mind explaining what the word SCAMP (A person, especially a child, who is mischievous in a likeable or amusing way:) has to do with the reception of RTE 2 ?

Regards

Benolam

Make a half-wave dipole using co-ax cable.
Find the frequency of the transmitter you are using.
Convert to wavelength in cm. (UHF channel 30 has a wavelength of about 54 cms
Divide by 2. (27cm). That is the length of the antenna.
Remove 14 cms of the outer sheath of the co-ax.
Separate the inner and outer conducters and tape them, left and right on to, a non-ferrous material, e.g. a wooden chopstick.
Orient the antenna perpendicular to the transmitter and position it to best recption.

winston_1

Oscarziggy wrote: »

As you are constantly correcting people for the spelling of AERIAL would you mind explaining what the word SCAMP (A person, especially a child, who is mischievous in a likeable or amusing way:) has to do with the reception of RTE 2 ?

Regards

It is not a spelling mistake, Ariel is a completely different thing to aerial.

Scamp is a spell corrector mess up for skimp.

fat-tony

winston doesn't make spelling mistakes - the spelling corrector messed up

Oscarziggy

winston_1 wrote: »

It is not a spelling mistake, Ariel is a completely different thing to aerial.

I am well aware that it's a spelling mistake but I have yet to see anyone comment on how to connect the coax to a packet of soap powder let alone how to secure the packet to the AERIAL pole or for that matter how to waterproof the packet against the rain.!!
There again they could be using an "indoor ARIEL".
Hopefully people aren't so stupid as to put a TV aerial in with the clothes for washing wondering what the racket is and why the washing comes out a shade of grey.....
Regards

watty

Benolam wrote: »

Make a half-wave dipole using co-ax cable.
Find the frequency of the transmitter you are using.
Convert to wavelength in cm. (UHF channel 30 has a wavelength of about 54 cms
Divide by 2. (27cm). That is the length of the antenna.
Remove 14 cms of the outer sheath of the co-ax.
Separate the inner and outer conducters and tape them, left and right on to, a non-ferrous material, e.g. a wooden chopstick.
Orient the antenna perpendicular to the transmitter and position it to best recption.

Did you look at the link I gave?
It's even got photos.