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Thread ID: 125833 2012-07-22 07:03:00 Help with UHF aerial location & solder repair please sooby (15023) Press F1
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1290051 2012-07-22 23:40:00 Hi Arnie, that one in the photos is the existing old VHF aerial (non freeview) that will be getting replaced by the UHF freeview aerial, well after I fix it!

At the moment we are still using a combination of satellite freeview tuner & old analog tuner, that uses the VHF aerial.
sooby (15023)
1290052 2012-07-24 07:43:00 Thanks for that info Billy T, that give me hope!

Would any copper core wire work, say 1.5mm single core?

Yep, so long as it is clean. 1.5mil sounds fine to me. Of course the sound will be no good because you haven'y used oxygen-free copper that was pre-soaked in Bat guano at precisely 74.56 degrees C for 17 years before being thrown away and replaced with a bent paperclip atached to a crystal that cost you a third mortgage, but that's technology for you.

Cheers

Billy 8-{) :D
Billy T (70)
1290053 2012-07-24 11:51:00 Accidental double post. :blush: Billy T (70)
1290054 2012-07-27 01:56:00 Cheers Billy T,

It seems I've been over-thinking this whole UHF install, as its unfamiliar territory to me. Logic prevails now I've read your posts.

I was planning on scrapping the copper clean of its PCB coating with a scalpel - is there a better way to do this?
sooby (15023)
1290055 2012-07-27 05:03:00 A hot soldering iron held on the copper will lift it off - if thats what you want to do. Peter H (220)
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