Communal Aerials

John

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Nov 27, 2002, 4:14:14 AM11/27/02

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Hi,

I was told by a sales assistant in John Lewis that there's no point in
buying a DTT STB if you share an aerial with other flats because the signal
will be too weak or will pass via a booster that will interfere with the
signal. Is this true, or just true in some cases? Any advice?

Thanks,
John.

Julie Brandon

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Nov 27, 2002, 5:14:12 AM11/27/02

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True in many cases, but it all depends.

Borrow a box from someone and try it?

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Lee Mellows

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Nov 27, 2002, 5:20:41 AM11/27/02

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> >I was told by a sales assistant in John Lewis that there's no point in
> >buying a DTT STB if you share an aerial with other flats because the
signal
> >will be too weak or will pass via a booster that will interfere with the
> >signal. Is this true, or just true in some cases? Any advice?
>
> True in many cases, but it all depends.
>
> Borrow a box from someone and try it?
>

I live in a block of flats with a common aerial and run two digiboxes to two
TVs without any problem whatsoever. If you get an even half decent analogue
signal (ours isn't that great) then there is no reason why you shouldn't be
able to get digital. There is a booster in our system and it doesn't affect
the signal at all.

Lee

Andrew Fenton

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Nov 27, 2002, 6:45:10 AM11/27/02

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"John" <hucker@(nospam)lgu.ac.uk> wrote in message
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My aerial is communal, and a right rickety thing at that, and I still get a
perfect picture :-)

Simon Heather

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Nov 27, 2002, 6:54:55 AM11/27/02

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I share an aerial with twenty other houses in my terrace and I have to use a
booster but I get 80-90% strength which gives a perfect picture on my two
STBs.

- Simon.

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DW

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Nov 27, 2002, 7:07:54 AM11/27/02

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I share a communal aerial here with 5 other flats - signal was okay, but not
perfect - could not get all mux's. Complained to the management company, and
they put up a new, stronger, larger (eyesore) aerial, and now I get
everything I should. So, you may have some luck, you may not. Can you borrow
an STB from a friend to try it first?

D.

Owain

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Nov 29, 2002, 12:07:10 PM11/29/02

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"John" wrote

There may be problems with older or less well designed[1] communal
antenna systems, but I and a neighbour both have DTT boxes on our
common aerial (either 8 or 16 flats). We couldn't even get Channel 5
on analogue.

Try looking at
http://www.dtg.org.uk/dtgactivities/published/matv_upgrades.pdf
http://www.aerialservices.co.uk/pages/comserv.html

Owain

[1] Less well designed for digital; in some cases an analogue system
may have been very well designed, including filtering out unwanted
channels, but needs re-designing for digital.