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popper · 10-06-2006, 22:05

yes, thats it, the fact that you are getting the 'blockiness everywhere was overwhelming' can be cured but it means getting that high-gain 18 out of the loft and on to your chimney or a pole above the roof ridge
(higher is better, with all analogue/digital tv and wireless networking even).

its generally thought that using a high gain arial in the loft is just a wast anyways, but if you wanted to play around with it , you might first consider making a massive ground plain reflector (the bit behind the coax input box) do a search for Yagi DIY and take a look at some of the DIY wifi/wireless yagi info for why the ground plain works for reflecting the directional signal etc.

you probably already know its always better to have line-of-sight to maximise your signal, and in the loft your probably lossing a vast amount of that.

on top of that iv generally found that the new DVB-T USB sticks have far greater sensitivity than my older freeview STBs so again, that will help a lot.

by the way, -C = cable, -T = terestial, -S = satalite, theres also a newer -S2 , but so far iv not seen '2' for the others, theres also a newer DVB-H for handheld devices.

10-06-2006, 22:05	#14
popper Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,270	Re: Technical Question About Cable TV yes, thats it, the fact that you are getting the 'blockiness everywhere was overwhelming' can be cured but it means getting that high-gain 18 out of the loft and on to your chimney or a pole above the roof ridge (higher is better, with all analogue/digital tv and wireless networking even). its generally thought that using a high gain arial in the loft is just a wast anyways, but if you wanted to play around with it , you might first consider making a massive ground plain reflector (the bit behind the coax input box) do a search for Yagi DIY and take a look at some of the DIY wifi/wireless yagi info for why the ground plain works for reflecting the directional signal etc. you probably already know its always better to have line-of-sight to maximise your signal, and in the loft your probably lossing a vast amount of that. on top of that iv generally found that the new DVB-T USB sticks have far greater sensitivity than my older freeview STBs so again, that will help a lot. by the way, -C = cable, -T = terestial, -S = satalite, theres also a newer -S2 , but so far iv not seen '2' for the others, theres also a newer DVB-H for handheld devices.