TV Antenna Installation & Repair in Templestowe Lower, VIC 3107
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Templestowe Lower's signal path
Solar installations are a common trigger in Templestowe Lower. 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 Templestowe Lower
- Main transmitter
- Mt Dandenong
- Distance & direction
- 22 km, bearing 111° (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 compact VHF/UHF combination antenna
Calculated from Templestowe Lower'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 Templestowe Lower and Mt Dandenong
Between Templestowe Lower and Mt Dandenong lie Donvale, Ringwood North, Croydon South and Kilsyth South. Any tall building, ridge or tree line along that 22 km line affects what your antenna receives.
When we aim a Templestowe Lower antenna we start at 111° and then peak it on the meter, because reflections can make the best direction a few degrees off the map bearing.
Typical Templestowe Lower homes and what fails
Around Templestowe Lower 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 Templestowe Lower
- Original antenna with a corroded balun or cracked elements
- New double-storey neighbours blocking the path
- Too many TV points on unpowered splitters
Templestowe Lower and the suburbs next door
- Bulleen — 2.0 km to the west, 1.8 km further from Mt Dandenong.
- Bulleen South — 2.0 km to the south-west, 1.1 km further from Mt Dandenong.
- Doncaster — 2.7 km to the south-south-east, 1.7 km closer to Mt Dandenong.
- Lower Plenty — 2.8 km to the north, 0.9 km further from Mt Dandenong. Its homes are more typical of foothills & escarpment shadow reception, so faults there tend to differ.
Templestowe Lower has the 3107 postcode to itself.
What it costs in Templestowe Lower
Fixed pricing in Templestowe Lower: 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.
Templestowe Lower antenna questions
Why do I lose channels in Templestowe Lower 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 Templestowe Lower antenna point?
Toward Mt Dandenong, about 111° (east-south-east) and 22 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.
Templestowe Lower: same day, fixed price, local tech.
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