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Doing it right!
Called to a house in Watchet, I was at first stumped as to why their aerial signal was so low, after all, everything seemed to be ok and Watchet is not a bad reception area. Looking up at the aerial,...
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No reception? – No wonder!
I was recently called to one of the chalets on Blue Anchor sea front, they had lost all satellite reception. I checked the signal and there was absolutely none, maybe the lnb, I thought. I remembered...
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Everyone in this trade knows Mendip is very hard to receive in Williton. I’ve managed to get it in Butts Close but it’s not reliable. I was recently called to a house at the bottom of Tower Hill where...
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Go Local!
I was only talking to one of my customers the other day about the dangers of blindly picking tradesmen out of the Yellow Pages, much better to go with someone local I said. But then I came across an...
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The benefits of good quality components.
Sky recommend using no more than 10 metres of cable between dish and receiver, although they will work well at much longer distances. The dishes they supply are very neat and unobtrusive but are not...
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The Manor House
This lovely old house already had a Sky dish supplying various rooms with satellite signal, my job was to install two new cables to enable Sky+ in two of the rooms. It was a very long way up to the...
View ArticleBit of cheek!
Q: How do you install an aerial system in a block of flats without actually going to the trouble of fitting an aerial? A: You just splice into the system of the guest house next door! Yes, I couldn’t...
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Aerials and water damage
Water damage in aerial systems is a very common occurrence, I come across it several times a year but recently, maybe due to the wet winter we just had, It’s become even more frequent. This week alone...
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Replacing a very old aerial system.
I was called out to a local hotel over the bank holiday weekend ( Sunday evening ), they had lost television reception in most of their rooms so I assumed it was going to be one of the aerial amps. The...
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