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It's more to do with simplifying the input options. Say you're someone who has a Sky box or some other set-top box. You might not have a TV aerial connected. It's a P.I.T.A. if the TV defaults to the Freeview tuner on start-up. You might have to select the correct HDMI input each time. HDMI CEC...

I wouldn't worry about it. It's done now. For future reference, if there's a big disparity in price, maybe look into it a bit further, whatever it is. Aberdeen Angus burgers are £4. An Aberdeen Angus fillet steak is £10. They're not the same thing.

It is better than the dog dirt low loss RG6 with the anodised steel centre core. The LCC100 has an all copper centre core. It'll do.

I didn't rule it out completely. Just that when you have a row of 50ft steel tubes all moored along a length of tow path, and they're sitting between a ground level dish on that tow path and the line of sight view to a satellite barely 25 degrees above the horizon, then things get a bit tricky.

Just getting rid of that unshielded coax splitter and the short black fly lead will have improved things quite a bit. Those DIY shed coax leads are often very poor.

That works for a caravan pitch, but not so much for a typical mooring point that a canal boat might use.

If you have clear line of sight to make it work. Of course, if you do, then happy days. Satellite carries far more HD versions of the channel mix for a start. Caravanners love them. I find that boaty people are less enthused. They say it mostly comes down to storage space. So many now use...

The canal boat enthusiasts use these near me - Middlewich, Cheshire - approx 30 miles straight line to Winter Hill. Canals, being what they are, tend to be in lower lying areas of any region. You have the height advantage of a loft, and the shorter distance to the transmitter (higher field...

On paper, the tri-boom, but real world it'll be different. Aerials such as the tri-boom have peaky gain. That means the highest gain is usually in a narrow frequency band somewhere towards the upper end of the frequency range. If some of your local muxes are lower in the band then you won't be...

To break down why this is bad: 1mm solid copper coated steel conductor and Nominal attenuation @ 1MHz = 2.82dB This is a minor point, but steel corrodes in the presence of moisture in the air. The anodised copper coating doesn't cover the cut end of the cable. What's more concerning is the...

Lofts can be weird for aerial positioning. Be prepared to experiment. Unless you can get hold of a very good meter, one with a display for the bit error rate per mux, then I'd recommend skipping any consumer meter and use a TV signal quality display instead. This isn't perfect. The TV is...

I should defer to someone with antenna building experience, but if I had to hazard a guess (and I emphasise a guess) then I would think this relates to the new shorter band for terrestrial now that the 700MHz clearance is complete. The 'channels' are now 'squashed' into a smaller range, and so...

The remotes got swapped, then?

My guess is he's stumbled across some of the CCTV ones. Basic coax-based CCTV often runs with a shotgun cable carrying 12V along side the coax. Any balun pair would need an extra connection to carry power via the Ethernet cable then convert it back at the other end.

As you've found out, Freeview includes some digital TV channels which are 'audio only'. These are the radio station channels. The number nationally is around 50, but because of regionalisation, you'll probably get somewhere around 20~25 of them. If you add a DAB or FM or DAB/FM combo aerial...