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Old 30th Apr 2019, 12:41 pm   #13
SteveCG
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Default Re: Triax UHF Aerial - info

John, indeed so if they were doing the installation for Ridge Hill now. However in fairness I suspect this aerial is from the early digital days at Ridge Hill when some Group C/D channels were used as well as the Group A analogue set.

Either way apart from a dubious printed circuit balun (the corrosive effect of a nest of spiders??) I've been trying it out on the Channel 52 and 54 multiplexes from the Mendip transmitter. It is fringe reception but I've been listening to Smooth Radio which is programme 718 on the ArqB multiplex on chan 52, using a Thompson Set-top box. The STB quality readout was 6 yesterday and 8 today (with better propagation due to the settled weather). Indeed a Antiference set-top log periodic also worked today. Aaah, happy Dxing.

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