TV Antenna Installation & Repair in Keilor Downs, VIC 3038
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Keilor Downs's signal path
Solar installations are a common trigger in Keilor Downs. 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 Keilor Downs
- Main transmitter
- Mt Dandenong
- Distance & direction
- 50 km, bearing 105° (east-south-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 Keilor Downs'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 Keilor Downs and Mt Dandenong
Between Keilor Downs and Mt Dandenong lie Kealba, Essendon North, Pascoe Vale South, Bulleen South, Mitcham North, Ringwood and Bayswater North. Any tall building, ridge or tree line along that 50 km line affects what your antenna receives.
When we aim a Keilor Downs antenna we start at 105° and then peak it on the meter, because reflections can make the best direction a few degrees off the map bearing.
Typical Keilor Downs homes and what fails
Around Keilor Downs 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 Keilor Downs
- Original antenna with a corroded balun or cracked elements
- New double-storey neighbours blocking the path
- Too many TV points on unpowered splitters
Keilor Downs and the suburbs next door
- Kealba — 2.2 km to the east-south-east, 2.1 km closer to Mt Dandenong.
- Delahey — 2.3 km to the west, 2.3 km further from Mt Dandenong.
- St Albans — 2.5 km to the south, 0.3 km closer to Mt Dandenong.
- Keilor Lodge — 2.7 km to the north, 1.1 km further from Mt Dandenong.
Keilor Downs shares the 3038 postcode with Keilor Lodge, Taylors Lakes and Watergardens.
What it costs in Keilor Downs
Fixed pricing in Keilor Downs: 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.
Keilor Downs antenna questions
Why do I lose channels in Keilor Downs 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 Keilor Downs antenna point?
Toward Mt Dandenong, about 105° (east-south-east) and 50 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.
Keilor Downs: same day, fixed price, local tech.
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