TV Antenna Installation & Repair in Laburnum, VIC 3130
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Laburnum's signal path
Solar installations are a common trigger in Laburnum. 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 Laburnum
- Main transmitter
- Mt Dandenong
- Distance & direction
- 18 km, bearing 95° (east)
- Band & polarisation
- VHF, horizontal
- Channels
- VHF 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12 (plus UHF 32 for C31)
- What we usually fit
- A compact VHF/UHF combination antenna
Calculated from Laburnum'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 Laburnum and Mt Dandenong
Between Laburnum and Mt Dandenong lie Nunawading, Mitcham, Heathwood, Heathmont, Bayswater North and Kilsyth South. Any tall building, ridge or tree line along that 18 km line affects what your antenna receives.
When we aim a Laburnum antenna we start at 95° and then peak it on the meter, because reflections can make the best direction a few degrees off the map bearing.
Typical Laburnum homes and what fails
Around Laburnum 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 Laburnum
- Original antenna with a corroded balun or cracked elements
- New double-storey neighbours blocking the path
- Too many TV points on unpowered splitters
Laburnum and the suburbs next door
- Blackburn — 0.7 km to the east-north-east, 0.7 km closer to Mt Dandenong.
- Blackburn South — 1.9 km to the south, about the same distance from Mt Dandenong.
- Box Hill — 1.9 km to the west, 1.9 km further from Mt Dandenong.
- Blackburn North — 2.0 km to the north-east, 0.9 km closer to Mt Dandenong.
Laburnum shares the 3130 postcode with Blackburn, Blackburn North and Blackburn South.
What it costs in Laburnum
Fixed pricing in Laburnum: 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.
Laburnum antenna questions
Why do I lose channels in Laburnum 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 Laburnum antenna point?
Toward Mt Dandenong, about 95° (east) and 18 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.