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Tuning to Mount Leinster from West Wales

  • 25-07-2023 8:30pm
    #1
    notapom
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    Hi guys, I'm wondering what is the best aerial to be using to pick up mount Leinster from West Wales?

    Currently have 2 aerials in the loft, 1 wideband (I think) horizontally pointed west to mount Leinster and the other an old school aerial to the south and vertical to a local Freeview relay transmitter.

    Each picks up the other signals weakly but not enough to just use 1 aerial. I've tried in each transmitters optimum direction/polarity, I've tried pointing in the middle of both, slanted polarity etc. Nothing good enough for my liking. The signals interlace each other. Saorview ch23 & 26, Freeview 22, 25 & 28, they couldn't be any worse! So a diplexer is not an option. Only issue I did have was a complete lack of ch22 when both aerials were connected. This was solved by redoing all connections and having the exact same length of cable from each aerial before combining.

    The aerials are combined into 1 cable a using splitter in reverse, going into the RF in on the sky box and then Sky and Freeview/Saorview distributed to another 3 rooms via the loft using cheap splitter.

    On a good day the Humax HDR-FOX T2 shows around 42% signal strength and 100% signal quality on both Ch23 and Ch26. On an average day, around 31%. On some sunny summer days the signal quality can drop, making viewing glitchy, even signal and quality dropping to 0. To my understanding there is not a lot I can do about this kind of high pressure interference but the vast majority of times, I have no problems.

    Freeview channels are on average Ch22 30%, Ch25 45% & Ch28 60%. These may drop by 5% on high pressure summer days. These channels have zero issues and always display perfect even though though they are on the low side.

    Even so, I have decided to redo everything to get the best I can. Ordering a masthead amplifier and combiner with 2 UHF inputs for both of my aerials with a max 40 dB gain. This single cable will go down to the sky RF input. The Sky RF2 will then go up the loft to a powered distribution amplifier out to each of the rooms and a reel of RG6 cable.

    What would the best aerial be to pick up mount Leinster signals from 85 miles / 135km away? Also the best aerial for Trefin transmitter if anyone knows that too?

    Thanks



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