How to choose an antenna for giving: advice from FORUMHOUSE participants.
Any FORUMHOUSE user knows that country life does not let you get bored even without television. All the time you need to build something, improve, remove weeds, but in the evening you want to take a break from the works of the righteous. And here nothing can be better than gathering with friends and watching a football match with your favorite team on TV. Therefore, together with the users of our portal, let's find out which antenna to put in the country, so that it catches signals well and the price is reasonable.
Which antenna is best for giving
If at least one single strongly protruding channel exceeds the maximum allowable level after the amplifier, then it will “tip” the amplifier (overload) and the output will be a mess from the channels.
The main disadvantage of active antennas is the impossibility of gain adjustment ("playing" by changing the supply voltage is about nothing), the impossibility of Skylink rejection, the impossibility of attenuating strong "crawling out" channels.
If the outdoor antenna and the amplifier are located at a distance of 0 to 10 meters from each other (mast + descent to the attic), then in the vast majority of cases this does not lead to signal attenuation.
It must also be remembered that for the normal operation of the amplifier, it is necessary that the signals coming to its input be approximately the same and of a certain level. Any television channel (or interference from a 450 MHz cellular network, radio signaling, etc.) that is much higher in level than the other channels overloads the amplifier and "dirt" appears on the screen. At a very high level, the amplifier may be overloaded so that nothing is visible on the screen at all. In this case, it is impossible to turn off the amplifier without altering such an "antenna".
Alexander 2 :
- X good antennas for giving is good, but a lot depends on the cable, I advise you to take SAT 50 or SAT 703.
And even living next to a transmitting repeater does not guarantee reliable reception.
Danchenkoff:
- It seems to me that the signal from the air is getting worse and worse every year. I can't say about the Moscow region, but I have tv antenna to the country house - the usual inactive decimeter "ether", a year ago showed 15 channels, and this summer 10 federal +2 regional. Here, obviously, the problem is in the frequencies, which are affected by the many installed cell towers. My satellite TV clients live a hundred meters from the TV station, and still their TV shows badly! Therefore, it is better not to rack your brains, to which outdoor antenna to choose for giving, and switch to satellite TV.
Alexander 2 :
- "Super-near" TV reception is a special case! Here you have to think. Branded terrestrial antennas provide for installation at an angle of +5 - +10 degrees to the horizon, and it is necessary not to amplify the signal, but to dampen the channels selectively using notch filters.
And in order to prevent obstacles and range from affecting the quality of picture reception, digital terrestrial television was invented.
How to install an antenna in the country yourself
Let's analyze all the stages of installing a television antenna using the experience of a member of our portal as an example.
HJS :
- My garden is located a hundred kilometers from Moscow (to the northeast), there is no data on the signal level and quality of reception yet. There are no obstacles in front of the building, the estimated antenna mounting height is 6m, in the house there is a splitter for 3 TV sockets. I would like to receive the central channels in more or less decent quality. I think my TV antenna for giving will be passive, larger size and separately for her amplifier.
Alexander 2 :
– In this case, you can install the antenna in several stages, which will allow you to choose the most optimal design. Here is a setup diagram that will work:
- Start by placing three separate antennas on each band. The mast needs to be picked up regular, and not a stick / pole or a pipe. Do not buy an amplifier yet, but add the signals from three antennas on a special summing filter;
- Then divide the signal into three tails using a divider.
- If the picture does not suit you, then a three-input range amplifier is required. They are usually called mast, but in our climate they are better placed in the attic;
- During installation, in order not to confuse anything, it is necessary to mark the cables from all three antennas.
The participant of our portal used the scheme described above, and the results of the first test justified the expectations - they show all the channels from his personal rating, except for the sports one.
Test results:
- Channel 1, TV center, Channel 5 and Star - show with slight interference;
- Home, REN TV, STS, TNT, 7TV, DTV, MTV, MUZ TV, 2X2 - they show very well;
- Russia is bad, NTV is very bad, Sport is not visible at all.
HJS :
- We can say that the test result is positive, this is almost enough, the only thing I would like to see is the Sport channel, but this requires a plate.
But besides the fact that it is necessary to choose the right TV antennas for giving, they need to be fixed on something. There are many wall brackets or installation matches on sale, but sometimes none of the options may be suitable, and in order not to spoil the gable of a private house, it is easier to install an outdoor antenna on a tree. And it doesn't even make it look worse!
SergeyBorisov
- When installing, you don’t want to spoil the pediment of the cottage, drill the siding under the bracket, etc., but next to the house there is a hundred-year-old linden tree 15 high, why not a mast?
neck73:
- You can put both a plate and a simple ethereal on a tree. The tree trunk does not rotate around its axis, and swaying does not lead to signal loss.
We look at how outdoor TV antennas can be mounted on a tree:
You can read an article on how to properly supply electricity to a private house.
On FORUMHOUSE you can see our users - many of them have plots 100-200 km from the city. The installation of TV antennas is described. And if you need to fix a satellite dish on a house with a wet facade, then you can find out how to do it correctly in our forum. Even if you are completely satisfied with your television antenna for giving, which one is better for the role, you can find out on our forum. If you are just deciding which antenna to put in your country house or TV to choose, which may suit you best, read FORUMHOUSE.