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Thread ID: 108240	2010-03-20 08:08:00	Freeview: self-install or serviceman install?	braindead (1685)	PC World Chat

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868677	2010-03-26 22:19:00	The important thing about the feed cable from dish to decoder, and any other sat feeds around the house, is to use good quality cable with a SOLID CORE. Multi-strand core introduces way too much capacitive effect which ruins efficient signal transfer. i seriously doubt you can find multi strand core cable these days. it went out the window over 20 years ago. even cheap crap cable will be solid core. cables are generally copper coated steel due to the high frequency signals used, there is the skin effect where the signal basically travels on the surface of the core. hence use the cooper on the surface on the cheaper steel. the main thing is finding sat rated cable. there is tons of home where sparkies have ripped off the owners by using non-sat rated cable instead of the more expensive sat rated cable.	tweak'e (69)
868678	2010-03-26 22:56:00	We also pull in SBS1 (ch 13) and 2 (ch 14) from OZ. Their evening programmes are frquently very good.	Scouse (83)
868679	2010-03-27 04:39:00	LOl ok, i ripped it out cos there were 4 wires coming out of the wall and i wanted to eleiminate the stupid ones so i could find which was just the tv cable............ i dont have sky, i just have the sky dish and whatevers leftover from the last people who lived here, ive never got sky myself, mostly because i couldnt afford it, but we are so tired of just having bunny ears on 1 telly in my bedroom to watch only.......and i mean only channel 2. we cannot get anything else ........ doesnt help when the dog chewed the last remaining tv cable from wall to tv, and now it dont work. and the budget has gone out the window..............so many bills and not enought money............. cant find a money tree any where. :) beetle	beetle (243)
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