TV issue

[Okta]

Some transmitters are horizontally polarised and others are vertically polarised. With directional aerials this can make a difference and the aerial may need rotating through 90 degrees so that the vanes are upright rather than flat.

 

[Tezza33]

Some transmitters are horizontally polarised and others are vertically polarised. With directional aerials this can make a difference and the aerial may need rotating through 90 degrees so that the vanes are upright rather than flat.

Looking at the house aerial will show the correct orientation

 

[AlyJay]

@AlyJay
I fitted a vision plus to my first van, never again absolutely appalling product, exactly the same problem as you described it would give the impression there was signal but often absolutely nothing unless in a really strong signal area with good line of sight

I also messed about horizontal vertical pointing it 180 out etc.

On both my current vans I now use the truly incredible Necvox magnetic antenna, if there’s signal out there these will pick something up where the vision plus would not.

I also have a fire stick however for 100% reliable tv I carry a portable satellite dish in the vans as backup, for when there’s no mobile or terrestrial tv signal often there’s not even radio 4 in large parts of the UK!

Thanks for the tip CC.
I will look into Necvox set up if this one proves to be a waste of time.

 

[AlyJay]

Thanks for everyone's input.
From dicking around yesterday for what seemed like at least an hour I managed to get a signal.
I got enough signal to set 1 station from (channel 25) dunno if that is relevant however after that I managed to fine tune it and then I auto tuned all channels again on TV and then got a whopping (12 we think) channels.
Seems the TV wont pick up anything until its got a channel roughly tuned in that I can then set and then fine tune by further minute movements of aerial.
I think this is due to general crap reception in my area (rural Aberdeenshire) and when I move to a more populated and hill less landscape it will be much improved - or here is hoping.
Thanks again Alistair.

 

[Wightman]

Glad you got semi sorted enough to know something is at least working although 12 channels don't seem a lot - how many do your home TV's tune in? When we are approaching a camping area I try to scan nearby houses and see what type of aerials the local houses have, smallish looks to be OK/good signal areas, long pole/high up large aerial arrays I know it's probably sat dish area time. Good luck and glad you've got it working after all your hard effort/time.

 

[wildebus]

When we are approaching a camping area I try to scan nearby houses and see what type of aerials the local houses have, smallish looks to be OK/good signal areas, long pole/high up large aerial arrays I know it's probably sat dish area time.

A good rule of thumb there.
I have the same kind of setup as AlyJay but also have a Snipe Sat system installed which I would probably choose to use though in a clear sky area. (Problem with Satellite on a motorhome is the receiver dishes are low compared to house installs and more prone to line-of-sight issues - I can't use mine where I park due to the house but Terrestial is useable).

I wish these "Motorhome TVs" had the ability to save multiple tuning sets so if you go to a couple of places regularly you can just select that set insteasd of having to go through the whole tuning process each time. One of the advantages to using the sat dish is it is the same tuning info for just about anywhere likely to be going

 

[AlyJay]

Glad you got semi sorted enough to know something is at least working although 12 channels don't seem a lot - how many do your home TV's tune in? When we are approaching a camping area I try to scan nearby houses and see what type of aerials the local houses have, smallish looks to be OK/good signal areas, long pole/high up large aerial arrays I know it's probably sat dish area time. Good luck and glad you've got it working after all your hard effort/time.

I'm not sure how many DTV channels we get in house as we just use IPTV all the time, I expect a lot more than 12 though .

 

[AlyJay]

A good rule of thumb there.
I have the same kind of setup as AlyJay but also have a Snipe Sat system installed which I would probably choose to use though in a clear sky area. (Problem with Satellite on a motorhome is the receiver dishes are low compared to house installs and more prone to line-of-sight issues - I can't use mine where I park due to the house but Terrestial is useable).

I wish these "Motorhome TVs" had the ability to save multiple tuning sets so if you go to a couple of places regularly you can just select that set insteasd of having to go through the whole tuning process each time. One of the advantages to using the sat dish is it is the same tuning info for just about anywhere likely to be going

Yeah that would help if there was a stored settings ability for the auto tuner definitely.

 

[nabsim]

This was our best I think with the Avtex 3000 antenna

 

[wildebus]

beats the old days when the exciting news was Channel 4 opening

 

[AlyJay]

beats the old days when the exciting news was Channel 4 opening

Or radio 1 going over to FM.

 

[wildebus]

Or radio 1 going over to FM.

275 285 national radio one

 

[HurricaneSmith]

I used to listen to Radio Luxemburg with a home made crystal set and headphones.

I think the diagram came from The Eagle. (I wasn't allowed the Beano or Dandy. )

 

[Tezza33]

I used to listen to Radio Luxemburg with a home made crystal set and headphones.

I think the diagram came from The Eagle. (I wasn't allowed the Beano or Dandy. )

That's very comical

 

[AlyJay]

I used to listen to Radio Luxemburg with a home made crystal set and headphones.

I think the diagram came from The Eagle. (I wasn't allowed the Beano or Dandy. )

All I did was join the "Dennis the menace " club - and I think it was the Beano? . Nothing as impressive as building my own radio.

 

[HurricaneSmith]

To be honest, it was anything but impressive, and my crystal set was nothing like a radio.

It was two or three dirt cheap components, no volume control, no power, the aerial dangled out of my bedroom window, and the headphones were cheap bakelite. But it did work, sort of.

 

[wildebus]

To be honest, it was anything but impressive, and my crystal set was nothing like a radio.

It was two or three dirt cheap components, no volume control, no power, the aerial dangled out of my bedroom window, and the headphones were cheap bakelite. But it did work, sort of.

I can't remember the details, but when I was at school- so mid 70's, one of the boys used to convert standard radios (the classic 'trannies') into transmitters. Probably got the info from something like "popular electronics" magazine or somesuch.
clever stuff.