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Avtex telly hairils
in Anything Eriba-related Tue Jan 12, 2016 6:50 pmby Pepé Le Pew •
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Has anyone got one of these Avtex aerials, by any chance?
Is it any good?
We've got a satellite dish at the moment which is the terrier's testicles, provided of course that there's a line of sight to Mr Murdoch's tin can. If there isn't, we can't watch telly.
Now I know that the more committed Wesleyan members will tug on their hairiest shirts and admonish us vigorously for having a telly in the van first place, insisting that we should be bird-watching or hiking or listening to Radio 4 in crackly mono or attempting to get past page five of Finnegan's Wake for the umpteenth time by the orange glow of my great uncle Bill's Davy Lamp.
However, it's our holiday, and if we choose to watch telly instead of brushing up on our macramé skills, whittling clothes pegs or playing quoits in the rain, then we will.
So there 
Anyway. We've got a log periodic aerial like this one (but rather shorter) which we could use if I ever remembered to take it, but it's just so awkward and cumbersome and covered in irritating pointy bits that I forget to take it on purpose. Antennas like that are generally acknowledged to be the best all-round aerials for telly reception, but I can't help thinking that they're much better suited to permanent installations rather than having to be untangled from the nylons, skimpy underwear, bits of string, scraps of bog paper and the rat's nest of small electronic gadget charging cables that they become festooned with in transit.
So I've been looking at those Avtex things, which appear to be a much more elegant solution. The thing is, elegance ain't worth beans if it isn't a solution at all and the television picture is pants, and having a built-in signal amplifier is only any good if the signal it receives is nice and clean. A rubbish signal made stronger and more rubbish is about as much use as mudflaps on a tortoise.
So are they any good?
They're quite expensive, but Avtex stuff generally seems to be quite expensive, and that begs the perennial question; is Avtex stuff worth the extra or not?
It'd be nice to have a decent, compact and convenient aerial as a standby in case I've misread Google's satellite view of a site and we find ourselves pitched in the dead centre of a satellite-proof and impenetrably coniferous spinney.
We could always have a couple of sherbets and play naked Twister by candlelight instead I suppose, but having a couple of sherbets and playing naked Twister by candlelight doesn't give me quite the frisson of excitement that it used to do thirty years ago.
Well, that's not quite true.
It gives me the same frisson of excitement, but sadly not my partner in the ruddy-faced and giggling debauchery of a youth long passed.
Sigh...
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RE: Avtex telly hairils
in Anything Eriba-related Tue Jan 12, 2016 10:55 pmby Pepé Le Pew •
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Quote: Frantone wrote in post #5Thanks, Mr P
I've got the Avtex aerial. (STH3000?)
It requires a 5v power feed which is provided by the Avtex TV. I think it works very well.
TonyP
Am I right in thinking that it comes with a 12 to 5v adapter affair so that you can power the amplifier from a fag lighter-type socket if you don't have an Avtex telly with 5v out?
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RE: Avtex telly hairils
in Anything Eriba-related Wed Jan 13, 2016 9:58 amby Pepé Le Pew •
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RE: Avtex telly hairils
in Anything Eriba-related Wed Jan 13, 2016 5:14 pmby Julie Grafo •
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That could be construed as cruelty to bears unless Gladly is allowed to throw corks back.
Can't help on the TV front at all. We take Dvds which we watch on the laptop or just get very drunk and play scrabble. It doesn't improve the spelling but it does make the scoring far less important
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With regards to Tony`s comment about wiring directly to a 12volt battery.
My understanding is that a 12volt battery can not supply a consistent 12 volts. There for any wiring should go through a suitably system that will enable a constant 12 volt supply.
The USB Charing sockets are a very good alternative, especially in today's modern society where we seem to be dependent on the `charger` . At home I have installed 240 volt plugs with built in 5 volt 2 amp USB charging ports. I am certainly going to wire USB charging points into my Triton.
If you look on eBay I think you will find such USB charging ports are cheaper. Not only that but I have found a usb 5volt to 12volt Charing cable that will provide the constant 12volt supply I will need for a bit of tech equipment I have for the Triton. Price is under £3 including delivery. Though for some reason I can not post a link to the eBay product. Search term is : USB Male A to DC 5v Power Supply Cable DC 5.5mm x 2.1 mm DC Jack Plug Charger
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RE: Avtex telly hairils
in Anything Eriba-related Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:41 amby Randa france •
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And for those of you who understand what the above is all about, here's the post/thread Bob is referring to:-
Eriba Media Centre DONE! (well at least I think it is 
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Randa 
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