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We have had an Enox All-in-line 12V/240V TV for about 9 months now, and we have only ever watched DVDs on it due to our incompetence and ignorance when it comes to setting up televisions. Apparently it can be used with satellite or freeview/DVB. We have tried the old aerial that came with the boat, a satellite kit from Maplins, and now a one-for-all digital TV aerial. Either we are rubbish or our TV is and I don't think we have the know-how to work out which it is (though I could take a guess...) So, if you live in the Cropredy area, or know someone who does, and know something about setting up TVs, PLEASE help us. We will pay in money, or food, or beer, or tea and biscuits - whichever you prefer. Thank you in advance.
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Are such things worth buying? At the moment I am looking on the smartphone to find a station then auto tuning the TV. If that doesn't work I try the next station down the list. This takes quit a long time. Will a meter help me? N
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I have been using the app "UK Aerial alignment" for a few months now, but with limited success. The problem has been with the very unreliable magnetic compass in my Samsung. I have, over the past week or so, been using the same app but taking no notice of the graphic display of the aerial direction. I use the bearing and NIcholson's guide to show me the direction in which the canal is aligned (Pearson's is less good because the maps are not a good) This has worked really well during our eastward progress along the K&A. HTH N
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I'm thinking about getting a 22" TV. As much as I try not to bump into stuff when steering, it happens and I can come down below and find drawers open and occasionally stuff on the floor. My question is would I need to fix the TV in some way. What do you knowledgeable folk do?
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The following is my recently fitted Narrowboat TV and radio solution (12 volt supply): A single omnidirectional Glomex antenna feeds a Meos TV and Kenwood car radio at the same time with gain added (via a Glomex gain controller) when reception is difficult or if I can't raise the antenna sufficiently. Questions: Does signal strength reduce each time a coaxial cable is joined? I have 4 joins on mine. Does signal strength reduce significantly with a longer coaxial cable run? Mine is about 60 feet. Roughly how much of the signal is leaked by the coaxial connectors and is it worth buying only gold plated ones? Does it matter much that we have joined 75 Ohm cable to a very short run of inaccessible "pre-existing" (brown) coaxial cable from the boat's analogue TV days? How any mA (typically and very approximately) will my 12V Glomex gain controller draw on full gain? The tech. spec. cites 25 mA but for what I don't know (the gain controller model number is at the end of this post). If you want the background read on....... Thanks, Dr8ton The Glomex omnidirectional antenna is on an extending pole mounted on the outside of my cratch board. Seventy five Ohm cable carries the signal (via a 2-way cable splitter) to a Meos combi TV and to a Kenwood car radio. The total cable run is about 60 feet (though roughly 45 feet is currently coiled up so I can move the antenna about for testing purposes). On the antenna side of the splitter is a 12V Glomex gain controller. Note that my gain controller does not have a by-pass built in so it must be switched on to receive a radio and/or a TV signal. Yesterday I tested the finished system with the boat static on her mooring in a good reception area. After raising and lowering the antenna and messing about with the controller (e.g with the antenna lowered to cabin roof height I need to add about 25% gain) I got a strong signal on all Freeview channels and excellent FM from the radio, even at the same time. Then, as an experiment to test the effect of the cable joins, I simply plugged the Glomex antenna directly into the TV. I found I could lower the antenna completely and even bring it inside the cratch with no significant loss in signal quality. So on the mooring at least I do have this option (i.e. after rigging a gain controller bypass for convenience). That said, my simple experiment suggests that splitting the cable (e.g. to incorporate the gain controller) reduces signal quality. To compensate I wound up the gain (at the expense of mA). Of course this wasn't the point of fitting the gain controller! It's main function will be to help improve poor reception "on the move". Even so, I can't help wondering if splitting the cable to accommodate a gain controller is counter-intuitive, at least in part..... Equipment used: Antenna: Glomex V9125 12/24V Gain controller: Glomex 50023 / 98EC (with on / off switch wired to 12V panel) Cable: 75 Ohm (supplied by Glomex as part of kit) Two-way splitter: Glomex V9147 Coaxial connectors: F type TV: 19" Meos TV/DVD combi 192B (plugged into 12V DC socket) Radio: Kenwood Radio/CD/Aux KDC 24
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