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Permalink Reply by nathan on December 1, 2011 at 15:51

the communal aerial was upgraded a couple of years ago , the contract was given to a cowboy company who installed the new cabling for the aerial, they had the contract for the maintenance of the system, but did such a rubbish job they lost the contract, and a new company has the contract, i cant remember the name, you might if your very lucky get the correct information at the wonderfully helpful people at the estate office, as far as i know the cable installed was for freeview digital only, and if you wanted anything more i think the system had some satellite service on the communal aerial, and surprise surprise you will have to pay them a fee to have the cable connected from just outside your flat to your internal aerial socket, I dont know if this agreement still stands as it was maybe 2 or 3 years ago since the new cabling was installed

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Permalink Reply by nathan on January 19, 2012 at 19:37

i live top floor of crescent house and thank the lord i dont have to rely on the corporation for dab signal, works fine without their aerial, and i set up a dab radio for an oap on the ground floor of hatfield house, the radios aerial had to be adjusted to get the signal , but works fine

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Permalink Reply by nathan on January 21, 2012 at 16:34

what kind of dab radio do you have? does it have its own aerial or do you have to plug an aerial into it?

if you know someone with a portable dab radio you could test the reception in your flat. i have 2 dab portable radios in my flat and both work fine with their own aerials, no need for an aerial to be plugged in, or to use the communal aerial. if your radio needs an aerial to be plugged into it and you test the reception in your flat, i am sure you could pick up a portable aerial at maplins or argos etc.

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