I have just found out the quickest way for direction for your tv antenna when in the outback or anywhere disregarding the dish,go to apps download Antenna Mate ,this would be the fastest way of finding the wright direction to turn your TV antenna for reception , it is a ripper.
-- Edited by dorian on Tuesday 30th of July 2013 08:05:11 PM
Cruising Cruze said
02:41 AM Jul 31, 2013
G'day Lance
Can you put a link for that one up please
Thanks John
allinone said
04:04 AM Jul 31, 2013
It's costs $5.49 and looks like it only available for iPads / iPhones that have data 3G /4G capability and no androids. So choose wisely. TV is not that important anyway I believe.
reglynn said
03:04 AM Aug 9, 2013
Here is another one people can use is Antenna Helper
hako said
07:58 PM Aug 11, 2013
We've just returned from a few days down at the Big4 at Warwick (good spot), and tried our Antenna mate out - found it's not as simple as it looks as the direction was wrong - we could only get SBS and those channels that sell junk using the antenna finder but copying the direction from other vans we were able to get the ABC plus all the commercial channels. The difference was about 110 degrees. My aerial has a booster and sits above the apex of the Avan so it's the best possible position.
Someone suggested that there may be 2 different transmitter sites. Hopefully it will work better at other places but the group of 6 vans we were with were all very interested untill this problem happened.
KFT said
11:32 PM Aug 11, 2013
We use the POI for our Garmin which indicates the direction, polarity and distance to the nearest TV transmitter sites
you can download it free from ozcamps.net along with some others as well
frank
PeterD said
01:33 AM Aug 13, 2013
I just look at the antennas on the park cabins and point mine in the same direction.
VKPORTABLE said
06:29 PM Sep 2, 2013
If you are out in the sticks, the best bet is when driving through a town before you get to remote is to look at where everyones antennas are pointed.
If you ask a local where the tv transmitter is located. Before you leave go onto Google Earth, find where you are going to camp or thereabouts, find where the tv transmitters are located and draw a line between the two with the line tool, that will give you a bearing. When you get to your camp break out the compass and point your antenna in that direction.
Even without Google earth etc, once you know where the transmitters are located you will have a decent idea on where to point at.
Apps and the likes are only any good to you if you have mobile/internet access.
Lance C
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22Antenna+Mate%22
-- Edited by dorian on Tuesday 30th of July 2013 08:05:11 PM
Can you put a link for that one up please
Thanks John
Here is another one people can use is Antenna Helper
Someone suggested that there may be 2 different transmitter sites. Hopefully it will work better at other places but the group of 6 vans we were with were all very interested untill this problem happened.
you can download it free from ozcamps.net along with some others as well
frank
If you are out in the sticks, the best bet is when driving through a town before you get to remote is to look at where everyones antennas are pointed.
If you ask a local where the tv transmitter is located. Before you leave go onto Google Earth, find where you are going to camp or thereabouts, find where the tv transmitters are located and draw a line between the two with the line tool, that will give you a bearing. When you get to your camp break out the compass and point your antenna in that direction.
Even without Google earth etc, once you know where the transmitters are located you will have a decent idea on where to point at.
Apps and the likes are only any good to you if you have mobile/internet access.