TV Antenna Installation & Repair in Newborough, VIC 3825
Local antenna repairs and installs in Newborough: we start with a meter reading at your roof, agree a fixed price, and retune every TV when we finish.
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Newborough transmitter options
Valley floors are often in partial shadow from the surrounding hills, so Newborough homes on rising ground can see one transmitter while those lower down rely on another. When a household moves the antenna or replaces it like-for-like, it is easy to end up pointed at the weaker option without realising.
Newborough signal facts
- Main transmitter
- Mt Tassie (Latrobe Valley)
- Distance & direction
- 34 km, bearing 137° (south-east)
- Band & polarisation
- UHF, horizontal
- Channels
- UHF 28, 29, 30, 31, 33
- Local repeater in reach
- Moe repeater (Newborough): 2.4 km at 115° (east-south-east), UHF horizontal, 100 W
- What we usually fit
- A mid-gain UHF antenna mounted horizontally on a short mast above the roofline — or, where the Moe repeater meters cleaner, a UHF antenna mounted horizontally and aimed at it
Distances and bearings are calculated from the centre of Newborough; your roof may differ by a few degrees. Repeaters are low-power and directional, so we always confirm with a meter on site.
The signal's route to Newborough
Draw a line from Newborough toward Mt Tassie at 137° and it crosses Hazelwood South before reaching the transmitter 34 km away.
The path to the Moe repeater is only 2.4 km, bearing 115° (east-south-east).
Practical tip: stand where your antenna is and face south-east. If you can see a big tree, a new two-storey house or a hill within a few hundred metres, that is the first suspect.
Newborough homes and their antennas
New estates on the edge of Newborough have the same builder-antenna issues as Melbourne's growth suburbs: small antennas mounted low. A correctly sized antenna aimed with a meter fixes it.
Common Newborough call-outs
- Antenna pointed at the weaker of two transmitters
- Original cabling and splitters in older town homes
- Builder antennas mounted low on new estates
How Newborough compares with its neighbours
- Moe — 2.7 km to the west, 2.2 km further from Mt Tassie.
- Yallourn North — 5.8 km to the east-north-east, 2.0 km closer to Mt Tassie.
- Maryvale — 8.7 km to the east-south-east, 7.1 km closer to Mt Tassie. Its homes are more typical of rural acreage fringe reception, so faults there tend to differ.
- Trafalgar East — 9.6 km to the west-north-west, 8.3 km further from Mt Tassie.
Postcode 3825 also covers Aberfeldy, Amor, Boola, Caringal, Coalville, Coopers Creek, Erica and Fumina.
Newborough prices, upfront
Every Newborough job is priced before it starts. Repairs from $98; call-out waived when you go ahead; $120 saved on any new antenna install; discounts for pensioners, seniors and DVA card holders.
Newborough: quick answers
Do you install LTE/5G filters?
Yes. Near mobile towers, 4G/5G signals can overload TV amplifiers. A filter fixes it when the meter shows that is the cause.
Why is my picture worse on foggy mornings?
Wet antennas and cable lose a little signal. If your system has no margin, that is enough to cause dropouts. Better gain or a cable fix restores it.
Can you set up TVs for a club or pub?
Yes — multi-screen distribution with proper amplification, and LTE filtering where needed.