Recent content by Per

Have not purchased any new widgets during last year. Nearest mobile phone mast is about 2000 m away and has been there for years, possibly new 4G transmitters added during this year, but mast is at 90 degrees from antenna axel. Frequencies used for all mobile phone traffic here is presumably...

Dish alignment not probable cause: forcing dish by force to point slightly up/down eastwest does not alter anything.

BER: my receiver provides no numerical info on BER, only bars representing it, normally the bar is full length, when problems show up, bar is about 1/3 the length. Get about 1/3 displayed even if I disconnect antenna cable. lOCATION: Sweden, 100 km east of Gothenburg. Direct connection of...

I have no realistic indication of actual signal strength, my set only displays a bar indicatin BER. It shows very low but stable reading when it does not work, full bar when it does work. RTL and RTL2 disapear at the same time as Eurosport. Also CNN on 11776 V is lost some time. Details...

I have been receiving eurosport without a hitch for years. Now it seems as if it vanishes for long spells ( houers) at the time only to reappear with perfect quality. Has anyone a clue as to what is teh problem, my reciever or the transmission. I have no problems with other stations on this...

Nokia receiver help please My Nokia 9450S has a couple display that I can make no sense of and I would appreciate help with the interpretation of them. The displays includes two bars that are labeled AGC and BER. The manual explains that this means Automatic Gain Control and Bit Error Ratio...

No particular type in mind, the used antennas I have inquired about all are made of segments of perforated metal plates. Perforation with holes of about 0.1-inch diameter. Do they offer the same effective gain as solid antennas of same type?

Does anybody have information on the merits of Wingard antennas as compared to a solid aluminum or fiberglass dishes?