This question I am sure must have been asked before. However at the risk of repeating any replies, I would like to ask about which TV antenna most would recommend.
I have a winegard similar in shape as the sensar 111, it looks like a flat metal sheet type with a booster, which works fine in areas with strong signal strength, but in some places with a low strength it is hopeless and yet others have a good picture. Is this a common thing no matter what the antenna type is, or is mine just cheap crap.
One of my compatriot Freelander owners has made up 4 antennas to install behind trim panels to connect to 4 amplifiers. 4 amplifiers & antennas gets you a better signal than 1.
This question I am sure must have been asked before. However at the risk of repeating any replies, I would like to ask about which TV antenna most i use would recommend.
I have a winegard similar in shape as the sensar 111, it looks like a flat metal sheet type with a booster, which works fine in areas with strong signal strength, but in some places with a low strength it is hopeless and yet others have a good picture. Is this a common thing no matter what the antenna type is, or is mine just cheap crap.
Hi Klaus
Good luck with the 4 aerials and boosters etc I would say that 4 signals are only better than 1 if they are in phase and add to each other, but much worse if they are not in phase and cancel out or interfere with each other
I use a flat type house aerial with a booster and hoist it as high as I can if necessary on a pole or tree. Sometimes it can just sit on the ground or against the fence or on the windscreen. But you should be aware that at some areas the signal is broadcast 90deg rotated to normal and the aerial must be on its side. I usually look at the house aerials as we get to the area to see the direction and plane of their aerials.
This question I am sure must have been asked before. However at the risk of repeating any replies, I would like to ask about which TV antenna most would recommend.
I have a winegard similar in shape as the sensar 111, it looks like a flat metal sheet type with a booster, which works fine in areas with strong signal strength, but in some places with a low strength it is hopeless and yet others have a good picture. Is this a common thing no matter what the antenna type is, or is mine just cheap crap.
Always having trouble with tv everywhere we go especially regional towns with the new beaut digital signal.Never seem to have any trouble using the satellite feed though
__________________
John
2017 dmax lovells upgrade full CSM trade aluminium canopy,3.5 m quintrex tinny and rear boat loader mangrove jack aluminium trailer
I use the Winegard Sensar that has the vertical and horizontal receivers, most people call them the snowflake type, works most areas where you get a bit of a signal without going to satellite.
My caravan also came with one of the Winegard antennas - I note they are about $800 retail so they *should* be good.
Unfortunately I have found, moving around Victoria, that digital TV signal coverage is, how can I put this?, crap.
The very high frequencies used for digital TV have extremely poor penetration through trees, rain and most other obstructions. When TV was switched from analogue to digital government should have insisted upon many more local repeaters being installed but they did not.
For much of last year (covid lockdowns) I was camped 7km from a small town which had a 20W TV repeater at 30m elevation - from 7km I could not receive a single channel from that repeater it was, I suspect, all being absorbed by the forest in which I was camped. However I could easily (0.5W) trigger and receive an amateur radio 2m (146MHz) repeater located on the same tower as the TV repeater.
Your friend's four way antenna will not work anything even remotely like properly.
Jaahn is quite correct when he points out the signal phases will be fighting one-another. Your statement about the quality of items indicates a failure to understand the issue. A single antenna in the correct polarity for the local repeater with a single masthead amplifier mounted as high as possible is the way it should be done.
__________________
"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken"
Oliver Cromwell, 3rd August 1650 - in a letter to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland
The car is set up from the factory to take up to 4 amplifiers but it was a feature never offered on the Freelander even though all Land Rovers & Range Rovers use basically the same system. So it is a matter of getting Range Rover or also Jaguar parts & getting into the car's CCF files & changing code (you need to seriously know what you are doing or you can kill the car) to get it working. Normally they use 2 amplifiers & 2 aerials but there is the option of plugging in another 2.
__________________
Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!
50L custom fuel rack 6x20W 100/20mppt 4x26Ah gel 28L super insulated fridge TPMS 3 ARB compressors heatsink fan cooled 4L tank aftercooler Air/water OCD cleaning 4 stage car acoustic insulation.
You are suggesting that Land Rover have attempted to phase match four 700MHz antennas, feed lines and amplifiers in a mass production environment in order their customer can get slightly better TV reception! - if such is the situation then I suggest Land Rover are both engineeringly stupid and financially suicidal and I don't believe either is the case.
My last comment on this very curious perception.
__________________
"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken"
Oliver Cromwell, 3rd August 1650 - in a letter to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland
I would say that 4 signals are only better than 1 if they are in phase and add to each other, but much worse if they are not in phase and cancel out or interfere with each other
