Digital Antennas
We have many years experience installing Digital TV systems. We won't compromise on the quality of our installations. The only way to know for sure what antenna you will need is to get up on your roof and perform a site test to evaluate your reception. Beware of people giving free quotes as most won't go to the trouble of doing a proper site test.
What's a Digital Antenna
Everybody calls their antennas digital antennas, we know from experience that many antennas aren't all they are cracked up to be. From our point of view a digital antenna is one designed for the specific channels and frequencies that you are trying to pickup and excludes ones that cause problems for digital.
In Melbourne that normally means an antenna that is designed to pickup Channels 6-12 VHF and Channels 27-35 UHF. If your antenna picks up Channel 2 analogue, like most old antennas do, it can be much more prone to picking up electrical interference and causing problems for digital reception.
In Melbourne that normally means an antenna that is designed to pickup Channels 6-12 VHF and Channels 27-35 UHF.
If your antenna picks up
Channel 2 analogue, like most old antennas do, it can be much
more
prone to picking up electrical interference and noise which is much
more
likely to cause problems for
digital reception.
Typical Antennas we use for Digital TV
LPDA
The Log Periodic Digital Array is our most popular antenna for digital TV it provides a good balance of signal gain across all channels as well as providing good deflection of multipath signals and very good BER (Bit Error Ratios)
Phased Array
Used for diffuse signals we regularly use this antenna for picking up UHF repeater transmitters.
Yagi UDA
For specific situations we use VHF or UHF Yagi UDA Antennas that provide for a high degree of directivity and increased gain on specific channels.
Combination Log/Yagi
Where we require more UHF gain than the LPDA without the need to go to separate VHF/HF antennas we will use a high gain Combination antenna.
Hi Gain
We have a number of antennas for special situations like this Tri beam yagi array.
