Antenna Mounting & Orientation

When mounting the antenna to your home it is important that the mast is secure and will remain so. If attaching a mast to a timber or metal fascia board, it is necessary to secure it with additional stay-bars. Adept Services preferred method is to attach the mast to the rafters inside the ceiling and have it extend through a waterproof seal in the roofing iron or tile. This provides a more secure long-term mount as the support timber is not exposed to weathering which causes screws to corrode and/or loosen. It also allows us to position the mast higher so that the antenna is above the level of neighbouring steel roofs and also in the location indicated by our signal meter as having the "best reception".   Ideally there should be a direct unobscured line-of-sight between the transmitting and receiving antenna but in practice this is often not possible due to terrain or building considerations.  In these cases a professional installer would use a digital signal meter to 'peak" the antenna alignment for optimum signal.  This may mean that your optimum antenna alignment is not the same direction as on neighboring houses.

In Sunraysia all television antennas should be aligned toward the Yatpool Tower. This is approximately 8km South of Red Cliffs next to the Calder Highway.