Any Tv Signal Experts Here?

[Guest gooner52]

hi andrew

 

what rf coax have you been using..

 

did you make the leads yourself

 

make sure both rf plug ends male/female do not have the inner and outer wire cores touching m8

 

there is a specail tool that you can buy,to get a great cut and seal everytime...

 

might be able to get it from bq

 

when my sky was installed the coax and rf plugs where rubbish,changed the whole lot

used a very good rg59 coax..a good tip for this ,is to work out the length you need,make a clean cut

then roll out the cable and leave for a while ,to get out any kinks and bends

 

if you need anymore more help pm

 

had a job like this the other day

 

customer,coax had so may bends in the cable which was twisting the coax all over the place

 

and at the plug end both inner and outer coax was touching

 

hope this helps a bit

[Guest gooner52]

andy

 

sorry forgot to tell you the tool u want

 

is called a snap & seal :lol:

[Andrew T]

Cheers, When I had the last Aerial fitted I was told the cable was rubbish and it was replaced,so I've still got some good lengths left to use.

[Guest Cepheus]

The standard NTL-Telewest and any other previous cable company installation is usually pretty dreadful, you get the odd exception.

 

Most cable are buried just a few inches, just enough so the customer doen't see them.

They then typically get the old spade through them when you dig the garden, edging the lawn is almost a cert to cut them.

 

Green flexible pipe ! about 50 / 50 whether you get this or not.

 

The installers are usually a sub-contractor using local labour.

Sacking the sub-contract company usually ends up with another contractor using the same local labour eg the same guys.

 

The network is very iffy and extremely insecure especially for the telephone service.

 

Just thought I would let you know.

 

Telewest installation teams have been in house for years up until recently (bloody ntl cutbacks) but the construction crews that do the external siamese cable, ducting, rod & rope blockage clearing, swept tee fixes & re-pulls have unfortunately been contracted for years, hence the low quality!

 

There is a lot of differnece between the ex-ntl and ex-telewest network architecture so to say all of it is very iffy is a huge misconception. most of ntls is total sh*t which was done on the cheap so they could afford to capture more UK customer base. Telewest was done with more money spent on it to give a smaller customer base a better more robust infrastructure. Even though the amalamation of the smaller local cable companies left a lot of different legacy network equipment from different vendors (Marconi, Nortel, Nokia & Ericsson) each separate bit works and works well together. What makes the network worse than it seems is the increasing lack of suport given to the network by the Network Management Centres. All of Telewest's Network Operation Centres have been axed and moved into the existing ex-ntl NMCs. The time-to-fix on network faults has gone up drastically since this happened, so customer perception of the service will go down.

 

The network isn't insecure, it's quite self confident and outgoing actually :lol:

 

Where do you work Kev?

[Scorpiorefugee]

Just to clear one point, Analogue and digital ITV only have the same program material in common. Other than that, there is no connection.

 

Just noticed that someone mentioned Emley Moor a few posts ago. Back in the late '60s I was stripping someones tuner down one filthy evening in Scunthorpe when the old Emley moor transmitter fell over. Net result, I spent a very long evening trying to get that so&&ing tuner to work

only to find out the next day that the mast had fallen down just about the time I stripped it out!!!!

 

Happy days :lol: :lol:

 

Back to the reception. TV aerials are a black art and a lot of funny things can happen. Even moving the pole to the other side of the chimney can change things.

 

I remember once........ Perhaps another time.

 

It is well worth checking what your neighbors are getting and if they are ok, ask nicely if you can share their chimney. :lol:

 

There is a definite stage where science ends and trial and error is the only way forward but do keep your cables straight and your connections tight.

[gregers]

instead of the chimney,choose a big tree strip a few branches off of it and hey presto ;)

in my last house they moved my dish 3 times and still wouldnt work properly in the end i put it on a pole at the bottom of the garden near my shed dug a trench and rewired it all up,worked perfectly.

[Guest gooner52]

well done that man ;)