What Grinds My Gears.

[Hiro Protagonist]

Bin?

 

Just hock them out the window and over the fence, let the neighbours deal with it

[Evan G]

wgmg 1st - EXHAUST MANIFOLD GASKETS! get f@$ked you 2 peice crap sealing peice of poo!

 

2nd wgmg - centreline suspension in thomastown!

 

you charged me $150 to bend my struts and $100 to put it on the wheel alignment machine for 2 secs. you said you bent both struts to 1.5 neg camber

 

took it to pedders for a wheel alignment since i lowered it. LHS - 2.54 NEG CAMBER, RHS -.5

 

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! uh 2 degrees out is kinda ALOT! oh and the c**t said i need 5mm spacers, i supplied these cause the wheels would of rubbed on the struts. pulled my wheels off when i was gonna paint them. THERES 2 WASHERS ON EACH WHEELSTUD???????? he pocketed my spacers.

 

gonna head there monday morning to sort things out! if he doesnt fix my camber and give my spacers back, ill "sort" him out!!!

[prosbo]

from the very first post

 

"Drivers who stop at the first petrol pump, blocking access to the other pumps. its so selfish, are you that wrapped up in your pathetic life you can't endure enough empathy to move foward 3 metres?!"

 

i only stop at the first one if its the only 98 the place has.

 

WGMG: this so called awsome digital tv we have now...."its clearer and better sound" WTF THATS BS! everytime a bloody bug..(i lie a plane or moderate winds) flys over the signal is totaly screwed but with analogue its PERFECT!

 

WGMG2: dam speeders in their 405875 million dollar cars...always cutting and changing lanes trying to get to their 20yr old wifes..yet only manage to get to the next red light 5 times quicker.

 

WGMG3: people who cut up the 2nd lane from behind you when they know it merges 5 meters ahead just to get in front of you.

 

WGMG4: drivers in cars that i KNOW will accelerate to the speed limit pull out infront of me thinking its just a

sh%t box that isnt doing the limit and don't freaking go...just doodle (hehe) and don't accelerate

 

cheers T

[Hiro Protagonist]

WGMG: this so called awsome digital tv we have now...."its clearer and better sound" WTF THATS BS! everytime a bloody bug..(i lie a plane or moderate winds) flys over the signal is totaly screwed but with analogue its PERFECT!

 

The thing to remember is that digital has a very fine tolerance for interference/reception. As signal quality declines, the picture will stay fine up until a point where you start dropping data, and then the picture goes to hell in a handbasket (choppy sound, glitches, pixelisation etc) - analogue on the other hand will experience constant gradual picture loss as quality declines so there is much more tolerance for iffy reception (you just get snow or ghosting etc).

 

Digital is still clearer, and better quality, than your best analogue signal, and will continue to be right up until it falls off a cliff. If your picture drops off from something as simple as a gust of wind, then maybe it is time to invest in a better aerial (times like this I'm glad our place has a 10m tall guyed mast of an aerial).

[clubby2084]

I can agree with both Hiro and Prosbo.

A better aerial doesn't help when you live in the tropics and get daily storms, for 6 months of the year. During the dry season it's great, during the wet it's crap. When a tropical low or cyclone is hanging about and there's constant cloud cover - no digital TV.

We also experience the same problem with Austar (Foxtel). Of course, Austar are happy to continue to charge for a service that can be out for hours (or days) on end.

In an area like Darwin where the cyclone warnings are updated hourly on free to air TV, reception at a time like this is crucial (OK listen to the radio. My father is deaf, what does he do?).

While the reception IS better on bright sunny days, it fails in too many other area's. That line between reception and nothing at all is too fine.

Must do better...

[irokin]

Are you using the right coax or just the same old crap you used for analog? In my experience the cabling makes a bigger difference than the antenna does. I live line of sight to the Brisbane broadcast towers and had glitching problems until I replaced the coax.

 

If that doesn't work you'll just have to wait for NBN fiber to come past your door.

[Felix]

Maybe try a masthead amplifier. Makes a massive difference where we live surrounded by hills.

[prosbo]

Are you using the right coax or just the same old crap you used for analog? In my experience the cabling makes a bigger difference than the antenna does. I live line of sight to the Brisbane broadcast towers and had glitching problems until I replaced the coax.

 

If that doesn't work you'll just have to wait for NBN fiber to come past your door.

 

we using the same cable didnt know theres something new!

anyway also i bought a usb HDtv tuner for my laptop and it came with a half meter cable antenna but i cut it up and used a LAN cable to make it longer dodgy i know but it freaking works better no drop outs and i get bris31!

 

and i put it on the other side of the house away from the house antenna, just on the corner of the patio it has tree hanging over it aswell!!

 

cheers T

[Crowie55]

WGMG: people leaning on my car... have found so many new dints :(

[love ke70]

amplifier for your aerial is the win.

 

we had same dramas as soon as out amplifier died.

 

well, we can't even get digital without the amplifier

[7shades]

^^^ What they said.

 

Same deal in Cairns... Signal comes from plentylongfar away and has to bounce its way here via several inconveniently placed mountains.

 

Masthead amp, and nice fresh coax cable... As short as possible

[Trev]

Still have analogue as foxtel was only just disconnected and I have not been bothered to get a DSTB, can only get ABC when it rains :laff:

[towe001]

About the same. We've had a set top all plugged in and what not for over a year now, used it a few times when we got it. I think the biggest run its had was when Amber's dad was staying with us till he found his own place, about 2 weeks worth. Since then its back to sitting next to the stereo turned off (not even on stand by).

 

My bitch for the day is Aust Post.

Pissing down rain, i walked into the garage and noticed a shadow walk past the garage window back towards the road. Hmm, i thought, bit odd, cause i never heard the door bell or banging on the door etc so i went around to the front door and sitting on the ground in the rain was two packages, one was wrapped up in paper and the other one was in one of those postpack bags. The dip shut at least gets one star for putting the postpack bag over the top of the paper one.

[clubby2084]

Thanks to everone who gave suggestions to fix my digital TV issues.

The coax cable is about 14 months old, as is the antenna and mast amplifyer. However, the antenna is at the back of the house and the lounge and TV is at the front. Meaning, it's a LONG coax cable from the back to the front of house. That could be one potential reason and something to look into.

 

I used to live on Brisbanes southside (Logan Central) and my HD TV used a rabbit ear antenna, it was great, only dropping out during storms.

I "upgraded" to a cheap antenna from Dick Smith, zip tied it to the side of the house and it never dropped out.

 

But honestly, this just seems to be another one of those second class services Darwin is subject to. You would think that as Darwin is flat, there are no mountains to get in the way, that reception would be easy.

[irokin]

Are you able to look at whats printed on the cable? Can you find something like RG59/U?

 

 

But honestly, this just seems to be another one of those second class services Darwin is subject to. You would think that as Darwin is flat, there are no mountains to get in the way, that reception would be easy.

 

From what I can see your digital up there is broadcasted with 25kW more power than ours is in Brisbane.