Antenna Rotator

[Bushy Pete]

G'day everyone,

about to replace the crappy old antenna at the farm and being halfway
between Toowoomba, Warwick and Brisbane, I'm miles from most of the good
signals. I've been rotating the antenna array (UHF and 2 different VHF
antennas) with a stick to aim at either Toowoomba or Brisbane depending on
what I'm trying to watch.

As I'm going to go up in height, and so on to try to get a stronger signal,
I'd like to know about antenna rotators, does anyone have any experience or
recommendations?

Thanks,

Peter

 

[David L. Jones]

On Jul 26, 12:22 pm, "Bushy Pete" <ple...@reply.to.goup> wrote:

G'day everyone,

about to replace the crappy old antenna at the farm and being halfway
between Toowoomba, Warwick and Brisbane, I'm miles from most of the good
signals. I've been rotating the antenna array (UHF and 2 different VHF
antennas) with a stick to aim at either Toowoomba or Brisbane depending on
what I'm trying to watch.

As I'm going to go up in height, and so on to try to get a stronger signal,
I'd like to know about antenna rotators, does anyone have any experience or
recommendations?

Thanks,

Peter

Have you looked at what you can get on Digital?
http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=22

You might possibly be able to get all the digital channels you want
from the one location.

Dave.

 

[princo coasters]

Are you using good quad-shield coax?

If not, I'd suggest re-running your antenna cabling and you'll find that
you'll get a hugely better amount of signal just from that.

I've seen CH31 go from snow to perfect just from changing the coax, and not
the antenna.



"David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Jul 26, 12:22 pm, "Bushy Pete" <ple...@reply.to.goup> wrote:
G'day everyone,

about to replace the crappy old antenna at the farm and being halfway
between Toowoomba, Warwick and Brisbane, I'm miles from most of the good
signals. I've been rotating the antenna array (UHF and 2 different VHF
antennas) with a stick to aim at either Toowoomba or Brisbane depending
on
what I'm trying to watch.

As I'm going to go up in height, and so on to try to get a stronger
signal,
I'd like to know about antenna rotators, does anyone have any experience
or
recommendations?

Thanks,

Peter

Have you looked at what you can get on Digital?
http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=22

You might possibly be able to get all the digital channels you want
from the one location.

Dave.

 

[a t e c 7 7]

Bushy Pete wrote:

G'day everyone,

about to replace the crappy old antenna at the farm and being halfway
between Toowoomba, Warwick and Brisbane, I'm miles from most of the good
signals. I've been rotating the antenna array (UHF and 2 different VHF
antennas) with a stick to aim at either Toowoomba or Brisbane depending on
what I'm trying to watch.

As I'm going to go up in height, and so on to try to get a stronger signal,
I'd like to know about antenna rotators, does anyone have any experience or
recommendations?

Thanks,

Peter




Perhaps a new run in quad shield rg6 as a minimum

if you want a new aerial then matchmaster off Compton Rd in Logan
to spin it if you go big then something like a KR400 I guess.

 

[Phil Allison]

"Bushy Pete"

about to replace the crappy old antenna at the farm and being halfway
between Toowoomba, Warwick and Brisbane, I'm miles from most of the good
signals. I've been rotating the antenna array (UHF and 2 different VHF
antennas) with a stick to aim at either Toowoomba or Brisbane depending on
what I'm trying to watch.

As I'm going to go up in height, and so on to try to get a stronger
signal, I'd like to know about antenna rotators, does anyone have any
experience or recommendations?

** Just have a big tyre lever poking out one side of the antenna pole and
get the missus to do the job of pointing while you call out directions from
in front of the set.




........ Phil

 

[David L. Jones]

On Jul 26, 11:00 pm, "Phil Allison" <philalli...@tpg.com.au> wrote:

"Bushy Pete"



about to replace the crappy old antenna at the farm and being halfway
between Toowoomba, Warwick and Brisbane, I'm miles from most of the good
signals. I've been rotating the antenna array (UHF and 2 different VHF
antennas) with a stick to aim at either Toowoomba or Brisbane depending on
what I'm trying to watch.

As I'm going to go up in height, and so on to try to get a stronger
signal, I'd like to know about antenna rotators, does anyone have any
experience or recommendations?

** Just have a big tyre lever poking out one side of the antenna pole and
get the missus to do the job of pointing while you call out directions from
in front of the set.

A pair of UHF radios makes this more effective, less shouting. Means
you can still hear her with the sound turned up too, no need to miss
that footy call as you try to improve the picture.

Dave.