TV Antenna Installation & Repair in Albion, VIC 3020
Calling from Albion? You speak to the technician, get a same-day visit when you call early, and pay a fixed price agreed before any work.
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Albion's signal path
Solar installations are a common trigger in Albion. Installers walk the roof, nudge the antenna or reroute the cable, and channels start dropping out a week later. If your reception changed after solar went in, that is the first thing we check.
The numbers for Albion
- Main transmitter
- Mt Dandenong
- Distance & direction
- 47 km, bearing 98° (east)
- Band & polarisation
- VHF, horizontal
- Channels
- VHF 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12 (plus UHF 32 for C31)
- What we usually fit
- A mid-gain VHF/UHF combination antenna on a short mast above the roofline
Calculated from Albion's centre point using ACMA transmitter locations. On the day we confirm the best source with a calibrated meter at your roofline.
What lies between Albion and Mt Dandenong
Between Albion and Mt Dandenong lie Sunshine, North Melbourne, Fitzroy, Kew East, Box Hill, Blackburn North and Ringwood East. Any tall building, ridge or tree line along that 47 km line affects what your antenna receives.
When we aim a Albion antenna we start at 98° and then peak it on the meter, because reflections can make the best direction a few degrees off the map bearing.
Typical Albion homes and what fails
Around Albion the housing is mostly brick veneer and weatherboard family homes, with a growing number of units and townhouses on subdivided blocks. The original antennas are often still up. They hold together for years, then the balun corrodes or a dipole cracks and the picture starts breaking up on one network first.
What usually goes wrong in Albion
- Original antenna with a corroded balun or cracked elements
- New double-storey neighbours blocking the path
- Too many TV points on unpowered splitters
Albion and the suburbs next door
- Ardeer — 1.5 km to the west, 1.4 km further from Mt Dandenong.
- Sunshine North — 1.8 km to the north-east, 1.2 km closer to Mt Dandenong.
- Sunshine — 2.1 km to the east-south-east, 2.0 km closer to Mt Dandenong.
- Sunshine West — 2.1 km to the south, 0.5 km closer to Mt Dandenong.
Albion shares the 3020 postcode with Glengala, Sunshine, Sunshine North and Sunshine West.
What it costs in Albion
Fixed pricing in Albion: we test, you approve the price, we do the work. Repairs start from $98, there is no call-out charge if you proceed, new antenna installs are $120 off, and concession card holders save more.
Albion antenna questions
Why do I lose channels in Albion when it rains?
Almost always water: in an unsealed cable join, a cracked balun or a split cable jacket. Rain changes the cable's properties and the weakest link fails first. We find the wet point with a meter and replace it with sealed fittings.
Which way should my Albion antenna point?
Toward Mt Dandenong, about 98° (east) and 47 km away, horizontally polarised on VHF. We aim with a meter, not by copying the neighbours.
My neighbour built a second storey and now my TV pixelates — can that be fixed?
Usually, yes. Raising the antenna on a taller mast, or moving it to a corner of the roof with a clear view, restores the path. We meter a few positions before committing.