Reply to: How to find compass bearing to my TV transmitter

[proggy]

Why not use the internet, i.e. iPlayer, ITVPlayer etc? Do you have decent broadband?

[EternalOptimist]

I got the local odd-job man to do mine.
I shouted up to him 'You'll never be able to keep a grip with that fckng emu stuck on your arm.'

he shouted back 'No . I'll be alriiiiiaaaaggghhhh.....'

[Sausage Surprise]

See which way the neighbours' aerials are pointing?

Was just about to say the same thing.....

[d000hg]

Well for a laugh I stuck a coathanger in the end of the cable and retuned. Amazingly I have great picture but it only found BBC channels (seemingly all of them).

Oh well I have the snooker...

[d000hg]

Good for your ego.

Not so good if terrorists/North Korea use Google postcode search for their missile navigation systems..

It's alright I double checked and it's next door.

[d000hg]

I was assuming his office is on the 2nd floor.

Nah, middle floor.

[Old Hack]

Easy to do if you don't have cavity insulation - drill hole in internal wall in study, drop plumb down the cavity with a pull through attached and fish for the cable with piece of bent coat hanger, if you have insulation in the cavity you're a bit fooked and and may have to go external

You can easily chase into any wall and put some conduit up the wall, and plaster/fill it Then just drop the cable down the conduit and go from there. I've done it so often, I have my own chase cutter now.

[KentPhilip]

What a great site.

And by some happy coincidence, Google maps my postcode exactly on top of MY house rather than elsewhere on the street.

Good for your ego.

Not so good if terrorists/North Korea use Google postcode search for their missile navigation systems..

[doodab]

Fine if it's a bungalow and no coving

I was assuming his office is on the 2nd floor.

[Troll]

Or just pop a hole through the ceiling in the corner and thread the cable through.

Fine if it's a bungalow and no coving

[doodab]

Easy to do if you don't have cavity insulation - drill hole in internal wall in study, drop plumb down the cavity with a pull through attached and fish for the cable with piece of bent coat hanger, if you have insulation in the cavity you're a bit fooked and and may have to go external

Or just pop a hole through the ceiling in the corner and thread the cable through.

[Troll]

I'd stick a splitter in and run a cable to the office from the loft. Assuming loft space is over the office it should be simple to do.

Easy to do if you don't have cavity insulation - drill hole in internal wall in study, drop plumb down the cavity with a pull through attached and fish for the cable with piece of bent coat hanger, if you have insulation in the cavity you're a bit fooked and and may have to go external

[doodab]

We have TV through roof aerial, but no socket on this floor. We have a sky dish (for freesat) but it's on the opposite side of the house... both are quite possible to solve but I don't want to get into such things while we're sorting out other things (like plumbing in the dishwasher, getting a new shower fitted, etc) If it were the living room it would be a priority but that room has sockets for satellite+TV already - I rarely watch TV in the office but the snooker's on...

I'd stick a splitter in and run a cable to the office from the loft. Assuming loft space is over the office it should be simple to do.

[d000hg]

You allowed to put a sky dish up? if so you could get the FTA channels through that

We have TV through roof aerial, but no socket on this floor. We have a sky dish (for freesat) but it's on the opposite side of the house... both are quite possible to solve but I don't want to get into such things while we're sorting out other things (like plumbing in the dishwasher, getting a new shower fitted, etc) If it were the living room it would be a priority but that room has sockets for satellite+TV already - I rarely watch TV in the office but the snooker's on...

[Troll]

It's a conservation area

You allowed to put a sky dish up? if so you could get the FTA channels through that