TV Aerials
TV aerials come in many different sizes, shapes and types.
For good TV aerial reception areas, you can often install what is known as a contract type TV aerial. These are basic aerials for TV, that are often installed on short aerial masts and small brackets on the chimney stack, or highest point like a gable wall. Contract tv aerials however are not recommended for digital, according to the CAI or Digital UK. Both of these bodies recommend that the aerials have a balun in place, which is a means to connect the aerial cables to a tv aerial. It makes for a fat better and more efficient connection and in theory provides a better potential for digital tv reception. Please see digital aerial explanation for more information.
As the TV aerial reception area gets slightly worse, you will need a slightly better aerial, slightly more powerful maybe, to cope with a weaker UHF or TV signal. TV aerials of this type tend to be super gain 18 type aerials, or TC10 aerials. (not the contract type aerials).
If the reception area is worse again, then high gain aerials are often used. These include TV aerials such as Unix high gain aerials, that are also multi beam aerials, televes high gain aerials, Antiference TV aerials... the list is very long indeed.
Even with a good aerial, that may not be enough. A taller aerial mast may be needed to get over any obstructions, and this is indeed for common for aerials in some areas, where trees or buildings may be obstructing the aerial transmitter.
One important criteria is that is the all of these TV aerials are CAI benchmarked. This means that the TV aerials themselves perform and have been extensively tested in laboratory conditions, to do exactly what they say. So, as with CAI members, that have to conform… it is very important to get a CAI benchmarked aerial installed. It will probably perform better and last longer. You get what you pay for!
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