English NTSC TV's.

[Mr Hoover]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

They were all those little UHF yagis after VHF was gone then, I was in UK before sky/cable and saw them everywhere. LOL.

There still are lots for the UK Freeview channels

https://www.freeview.co.uk/corporate...-professionals

[Colly0410]

Originally Posted by Mr Hoover

There still are lots for the UK Freeview channels

https://www.freeview.co.uk/corporate...-professionals

Yes just about every house round here has a UHF yagi or log periodic on the roof. (except my house, I have a UHF yagi in the loft) In October I went on a cruise to Rotterdam in Netherlands & Cork in Ireland: In Rotterdam I didn't see a single TV antenna at all so presume they're all on cable. In Cork I saw a few UHF antennas like in England & also Satellite dish's.

Mind you the loft antenna doesn't seem to be working after a lightning strike a few weeks ago that tripped the main circuit breaker, blew the internet modem/wi-fi box, blew two landline phones, broke a paving slab in two & melted & burnt an out door string of lights. We also have cable TV & that wasn't affected. Can get glitchy terrestrial digital reception by putting a piece of wire in TV antenna socket so know the TV is OK. Will have to buy/scrounge some co-ax & rewire my antenna, when I can be bothered that is...

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Colly0410

Yes just about every house round here has a UHF yagi or log periodic on the roof. (except my house, I have a UHF yagi in the loft) In October I went on a cruise to Rotterdam in Netherlands & Cork in Ireland: In Rotterdam I didn't see a single TV antenna at all so presume they're all on cable. In Cork I saw a few UHF antennas like in England & also Satellite dish's.

Mind you the loft antenna doesn't seem to be working after a lightning strike a few weeks ago that tripped the main circuit breaker, blew the internet modem/wi-fi box, blew two landline phones, broke a paving slab in two & melted & burnt an out door string of lights. We also have cable TV & that wasn't affected. Can get glitchy terrestrial digital reception by putting a piece of wire in TV antenna socket so know the TV is OK. Will have to buy/scrounge some co-ax & rewire my antenna, when I can be bothered that is...

A lot of antennas here are 300 ohm balanced and use a balun to convert to 75 ohm unbalanced coax. Those baluns use very fine wire and are usually the weak link in a lightning strike...If you have a balun that would be the first thing I would replace unless the coax is visibly damaged.

[Colly0410]

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Mind you the loft antenna doesn't seem to be working after a lightning strike a few weeks ago that tripped the main circuit breaker, blew the internet modem/wi-fi box, blew two landline phones, broke a paving slab in two & melted & burnt an out door string of lights. We also have cable TV & that wasn't affected. Can get glitchy terrestrial digital reception by putting a piece of wire in TV antenna socket so know the TV is OK. Will have to buy/scrounge some co-ax & rewire my antenna, when I can be bothered that is...[/QUOTE]

They say lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place, well it has - sort of. The other night while in bed there was flashing & thunder & then a bright flash & almost instant bang, it didn't trip the circuit breaker this time. The wind was howling so got up to have a mug of co-co & noticed the modem was flashing red & cable TV didn't work. Phoned Virgin Media & it turns out the lightning had fried some gubbins inside their street cabinet down the road, they fixed it by 3 PM & all was then well. Can't find any other lightning damage so got away lightly this time. I'm dreading the next time we have a thunderstorm, lol...