I won’t complain. While writing this, we are sitting in Wellington, NSW, on our way to a caravan and camping show at Dubbo this weekend. It’s pouring rain. This can be a bit miserable for us travellers. For the farmers, this is ‘pennies from heaven’.

It is lucky we can still turn on the tele for some entertainment. Would you know it? The TV reception here is coming from Mt Canobolas, near Orange. All the houses here in Wellington have 2 aerials on the roof AND it is ideal for the Saturn Antenna -with 2 channels on the vertical and 3 channels on the horizontal.

I may sound like I’m talking ‘double-dutch’. Sorry. I am NOT going to use technical jargon so all you ‘techos’ out there, don’t call me to tell me I’m incorrect; I am just going to explain the TV reception in simple, layman’s terms. Let me explain.

We have 2 ways that TV reception is transmitted in Australia- in a horizontal pattern and in a vertical pattern. There are a couple of reasons for the way the TV reception is broadcast. No, they don’t do that just to watch the travellers stand outside their vehicles getting frustrated turning their antennas up and down, this way and that (although, sometimes it seems like that). The VHF frequency transmitted on the vertical plane travels longer distances with less loss of picture quality- perfect for the transmitters that need to cover a large area. Transmitters at Orange, Canberra, Coonabarabran, Bundaberg, Shepparton and many more have vertical transmission as well as horizontal transmission.

2. The vertical plane is also used for TV transmission to avoid interference with transmission from another close tower. For example, so that it doesn’t clash with the transmission from the Sunshine Coast transmitter, the Noosa/Tewantin transmitter in Queensland sends its reception on the vertical.

So THAT’S why there are 2 aerials with Saturn Antenna – one on the horizontal and one on the vertical. BUT YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW THAT. It is set up for ALL our transmitters. Whether the reception is sent vertically or horizontally, with a Saturn Antenna – just put the antenna up, plug in your cable, press auto tune on your TV AND IT’S DONE!

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