08/10/2024
Trying to get the Stockland Hill transmitter out near Monksilver, this aerial had always been on a ten foot pole with a mast head amplifier, now it was losing signal strength on several of the frequencies. I noted it was a wideband aerial so the first job was to try a group A aerial in it's place, giving better response at the lower frequencies, that was better but didn't solve the problem, so I moved it to the other chimney, this improved some frequencies but others suffered, now I was running out of places to mount the aerial and was on the point of suggesting Freesat. Out of desperation I tested the aerial at eaves level, not expecting it to work at all I found almost perfect reception on all frequencies, so I wondered if it would work in the loft...it did, just laying it across the water tank gave perfect results, so I mounted it on a pole above the tank and the job was done, so, after hours of struggling and almost giving up, the most unlikely solution did the trick!
