Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Aug 28, 2008 2:43 am I'm about to build a new home and my partner wants our TV antenna installed internally within the roof. We are having a tiled roof.
We are building in Point Cook. Is this feasible... and can anyone here comment on it, or have you got an in-roof TV antenna that you can comment on. Cheers. Re: Internal TV antenna 2Aug 28, 2008 8:09 am It is feasible, as long as you don't have foil sarking under the tiles, otherwise you 'll have no signal!
I'm not familiar with Victoria, but if you're within say 20-30km of the transmitters, and the terrain is fairly clear between you & them, you'll be pretty much OK for signal based on my experience in Sydney. Once you get more to the outskirts you'll need someone with a field strength meter (Digital) to do a bit of a survey to find the best spot, which will usually be the most inconvenient! You can always mount it low, and at the rear of the house (depending on the signal direction & surrounding houses/terrain/trees) like I did at my parents place - you can only see it from the garden shed. Re: Internal TV antenna 3Aug 28, 2008 8:19 am I put my own antenna inside our tiled roof and it works brilliantly.
You do get some loss in the signal strength because of the tiles, but if the antenna and the cables are decent enough then you still have plenty of signal, and quality signal by the time it gets to your TV. I have a Hills OMX 400 plus (very popular model) which is a larger antenna, but definitely worth it (not that much money anyway). I use RG6 Quad Shield cable for all antenna cabling runs. If you plan to split the signal up a bit - if you want multiple TV outlets (more than 2 really), then one of the best things you can do is install a powered splitter/distribution amplifier (perhaps a 'masthead amplifier/splitter') as the first point in the line coming down from the antenna (then you will be amplifying and distributing the best posible signal). After eventually splitting my own in two different segments for a total of 5 outlets I was noticing some degradation in the signal strength and quality (and drop-outs on my digital tuners). Installing a powered splitter near the original source (antenna) of the signal fixed this all up perfectly. DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair Brilliant - thanks so much for that. I didn't want to start pulling too hard on it if there was some other way it was attached, but yep, it was just the paint sticking it… 2 3169 Thanks. Yeh ideally that would have been good, but have progressed too far now. Hoping some well placed internal walls fixed up into the battens will provide some… 2 5402 Thank you alexp79 and gommeqld for your advice, that's very helpful, thanks 3 7919 |