Aligning TV Aerials And How To Get Polarisation Correct 

Thanks, saved me hours of trying to tune an aerial the wrong way round!! Now works perfectly

Cheers mate. Exactly what I was searching for, right down to the Heathfield transmitter 👍

Hi Tom, thanks for clarifying that mate. Quick question, my house is about 200 meters away from the TV tower which transmitted in vertical polarization. Does it matter that the TV antenna on my roof is vertically polarized and the azimuth is correct I pointed towards the TV tower, but there is no elevation, ie zero degrees. Would this affect analog or digital reception on my TV? Thanks.

I'm struggling to get channels on the Com7 multiplex from the Crystal Palace transmitter. Freesports, Now70s etc.The polarisation is listed as H -6.7dB. Is this more about aerial type/ tolerance that orientation?

Thanks Tom , I have installed a tri band aerial and trying to watch hd tv station intermittent (no picture on screen ) or sometimes picture breakup . Any ideas

Good videos. But I need some help plz mate. I moved into anew build house and got to sort the TV Ariel out myself, been here 3 months now and I've tried my loft TV Ariel at every degree, but no matter wot degree I've got it pointed to there is part of the day where I will loose some channels completely for no obvious reason, I don't understand, I've got a booster rigged up to the Ariel and theres no obvious reason why it loses signal, and the signal and quality is nearly at 100%, any ideas why its doing that? Any ideas greatly appreciated. Matt Ps I even brought them compression connectors to make sure there isn't any loose ones.

Thanks, didn't even know this was a thing.

Hi Tom, my situation is as follows I'm currently living in a summer house I'm looking to install a tv aerial outside the log periodic sounds like the right aerial for me , the highest point of fixing the antennais about 10ft high please can you advise what I will need .

Have a large 3 year old Yagi (Horizontal) aerial mounted around 30 foot up (outside) with new cable run, 10 miles from Crystal Palace on top of a large hill and our reception varies at different times of the day/year, also depending on Channel, ITV being better than BBC. Reception hovers around 40/50%. What to try next? please.

How do i find out where the tv transmitter are and what tv signal Detector do u recommend for the UK

Thanks for this video. What is the name of this design of DVB-T2 aerial? And is there information about what's there inside the main metal part?

I bought and installed an aerial in my loft around 15 years ago. Got it from Maplin. Is around 4ft long and the elements are large and small X's. It's great running two TVs but I want to connect up a 24" TV in a bedroom as no portable aerials pick up a decent signal (tried 5, amplified and not). My nearest transmitter is Crystal Palace (3miles away). What bits should I get to allow me to connect 3 or more TVs to that one loft aerial? Thanks

Hi couldn't find the link you mentioned on the transmitters. I am trying to find details for the Droitwich/Bromsgrove transmitter? Most neighbours have horizontal and our main tv (roof aerial) is but the signal strength really fluctuates up and down wildly every second from 0 to 10. We also have a different tv in conservatory connected to aerial on a pole in garden which is vertical and signal strength hardly moves from about 9 (although this looks a newer aerial, lots more metal spikes sticking out). Any advice?

More questions - should co-ax be passed down through pole for weather protection? also how would tree branches in line of sight effect ?

Does a TV areal need earthing whether its a long long pole or it from your roof top

Would an indoor aerial need to be mounted in the correct way also? I bought a panel indoor aerial and had it sideways. My local transmitter is vertically polarised so would I need to turn the aerial lengthways?

Hi, how can I find out the Polarisation for the transmitter I'm using please? (Llanddona, Anglesey, North Wales. Many thanks for the video. David

I know its not ideal, buy which aerial would you recommend for installation in a loft? thanks

I am searching the youtube to find a video of how to replace the wire/cord on the antenna, and i can't find.

On assembling my aerial, i noticed that the wire doesn't come into contact with the main body (the arms) of the aerial. The plastic connection block just clips on the aluminium aerial. How does the signal get through...?

Brilliant, thank you. Learnt a lot!

Thanks for the advice, it’s been very helpful at this time I’m on Shielding, so I don’t go crazy, im home for 3 months, (off work ,The LAS) can you tell me i have a aerial in the loft, am I wasting my time, and should I point it towards Hastings or Heathfield from Eastbourne, near 24 Tesco. I got a bit confused.many thanks Max

Which way is crystal palace?

How many tv channels it show u

Hi I’m in Eastbourne I have a loft aerial .. just bought new LG tv but has poor reception but the last 10year old Samsung was perfect. Any ideas ? Will the loft aerial need moving about ?

Living in Ireland we had rebroadcasting of uhf signal many years ago we were using grid ariels Colorking Aerials. Signal was picked up on Vertical uhf for BBc1 & 2. While messing around in my attic I noticed I was picking up extra channels UTV & CH4 but only got a clear picture when I twisted off 90 degree Vertical just by maybe 10 degrees Then I picked up Both Vertical and Horozantal.signals. Now with Saorview or the UK Freeview signal running up to 5 TV's using a Passive splitter is the only way to avoid loss of signal for all TV's. These splitters can be expensive but years ago I found a method of making a passive splitter using a metal cigar tin with a straight middle copper core wire as a direct signal carrier for connecting to one TV output from Aerial then using 20 winds of bell wire wound in the same direction around core wire with it's insulation still on bell wire would pick up a perfect signal to run other TV's. The metal tin being the earth shield. This was recomended for splitting satellite dish signal at the time analog. I further modified this to opening a Y splitter soldering core wire from input to one output and putting 20 winds of insulated bellwire around the core wire connected to 2nd TV output filling the casing of Y splitter with sillicone Homemade Passive splitter with one active through connection. Used this method for splitting the then Microwave Transmittion signal first used in Ireland during the 90's. Further Modified the passive splitter just using the solid core high gain co-ax cable with satellite screw in connectors. Stripped the cable wound insulates bellwire with as many winds as I could manage then re insulate the core with tape and connect earth screen to mantain active connection to Tv Aerial / Sat dish or Microwave Aerial it worked a treat. Have used the same method for Mpeg 4 signal.

And the newish RG6 cable good.

Here is the article for Helical Tv antenna. Radio News , November 1958 , pages 66 and 67. www.americanradiohistory.com The print of magazines will display correctly when using Mozilla Firefox as the look up website. The article is presented by a Ham radio operator. The pictures of antennas show LHCP because he is Ham radio operator. Hams use LHCP. However the article diagram/s are for RHCP for Tv reception. The Helical Tv antenna is sized for the original UHF Tv band , 470 to 890 Mhz of years ago here in USA. Helical antennas are very wide band and will cover the 470 - 890 Mhz. The circumference of the Helical Tv antenna is 1 Wave Length. at 716 Megahertz. The circumference is 16.49 ". Or 41.8836 cm.

RIP Rod Hull

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Quality and Truth. If your Country or location has both Vertical and Horizontal Polarization Tv transmissions in the UHF Tv Band. The Right Hand Circular Polarization , Spiral Antennas at , www.wadeantenna.com , will receive Vertical , Horizontal , and all angles. Wade Antenna advertises to the CATV and professional industries , however you can buy them because they are in fact Tv receive antennas.

It’s being raining a bit I have family I ask

5 mins to tell us to either mount it horizontal or vertical Hahaha

My tv attacting funny

just look at all the houses nearby and it will tell you direction and position.Common sense.

I'm sorry but is very difficult to see what you doing you need to do the video or close up specially the one for fitting aerials any touching plugs the video is too far from you can see anything you doing

nauseating voice and he does not really know what polarization is. only thinks he does.

Why is it when you get some one to fit a new Aerial, they charge you over the top prices.. They always say you need adigital Aerial.. Fact is, there is no such thing of a digital Aerial.. A Aerial is just a Aerial... The free view box is what picks up in digital not the Aerial it self... So don't be conned.. Buy one off e bay & try & fit it your self.. Always be careful, take health and safety serious...

You talk too much dude