Hythe TV aerial repairs
Hythe’s homes climb a steep hill, and the TV signal changes a lot between the canal and the top of Saltwood. We repair aerials anywhere in the town and set each one up for its own position.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Hythe most days.
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Common aerial faults around Hythe
Along the seafront and around the Royal Military Canal, homes sit low and the hill behind blocks part of the Dover signal. Aerials here have often been fitted with amplifiers to make up for it, and those amplifiers eventually fail. Sometimes we replace the amplifier, but often a better aerial on a taller pole works without one.
Up at Saltwood, the signal is stronger but the trees are taller. Mature oaks and beeches can block channels in summer. If your picture is perfect in winter and poor in summer, we look at raising or moving the aerial to see over the canopy.
From a loose plug to a new aerial in Hythe
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Hythe repairs are finished on the first visit. You get the price before we start.
Realigning a turned aerial
Wind and slipped clamps turn aerials off the transmitter. We re-aim on a meter and fit new clamps.
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New cable and connectors
Cracked coax and corroded plugs replaced with double-screened cable and sealed compression fittings.
Amplifiers and splitters
Failed, overloaded or unpowered loft amplifiers tested, adjusted or replaced so every room works.
Storm damage
Fallen, bent or hanging aerials made safe, then refitted on a stronger pole, with photos for your insurer.
A new aerial when it’s beyond saving
If the aerial itself has failed, we fit a new one aimed at the right transmitter and test every channel.
Satellite dish faults
No satellite signal on Sky or Freesat? See our Hythe satellite page.
Match your Hythe fault to a fix
Choose what your screen is doing. The panel shows the usual culprit and lights up the part of the house where it normally is.
Every channel says “No signal”
- Usual cause
- Usually a connector that has worked loose behind the TV or at the aerial, a loft amplifier that has died, or an aerial knocked off its bearing by the wind.
- What we do
- We check the signal at three points, the TV socket, the loft and the mast, so we replace only the part that has gone.
Pixelating or freezing when it’s wet or windy
- Usual cause
- Rainwater getting into tired coax, connectors eaten by salt air on the coast, or a mast clamp that has slipped so the aerial rocks.
- What we do
- New double-screened cable, sealed compression fittings and the clamps done up properly.
A handful of channels have vanished
- Usual cause
- An aerial made before the frequency changes, one pointing at the wrong mast for your street, or 4G and 5G from a nearby phone mast swamping the amplifier.
- What we do
- A meter reading on each multiplex tells us which. Then it is a realign, a filter or a modern wideband aerial.
Freesat or Sky can’t find the satellite
- Usual cause
- A dish nudged off target by a gale or a ladder, a failed LNB (the part on the arm), or a waterlogged cable.
- What we do
- We peak the dish on a meter, then swap the LNB or the cable if they have failed.
One room has a picture, another doesn’t
- Usual cause
- A loose wall plate, a dead output on the splitter or amplifier, or damage somewhere along that room’s cable.
- What we do
- We follow that cable from the room back to the loft and repair the fault we find.
Seeing something different? Send us a picture of the TV and an engineer will have a look.
What Hythe customers ask about repairs
Local answers for Hythe. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Why is my picture in Hythe worse in summer?
Trees in full leaf absorb signal. Homes near tall trees, especially in Saltwood, can lose channels from May to October. Raising the aerial or moving it to another part of the roof usually cures it.
My Hythe aerial has an old amplifier. Do I still need it?
Maybe not. Modern aerials are more sensitive, and many old amplifiers were fitted for analogue TV. We measure the signal with and without it and only keep it if it helps.
Do you cover Palmarsh and Dymchurch for repairs?
Yes. We cover Palmarsh, West Hythe, Dymchurch and Burmarsh as part of our Hythe visits.
Quicker with a picture
Snap the aerial or dish from the garden, or the error on the TV, and WhatsApp it to us with your postcode. An engineer looks at it and replies with the likely fix and a price.
WhatsApp a photoNeighbouring towns to Hythe
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Hythe, see the Hythe area page or our Hythe satellite page.
Talk to a Canterbury engineer
Ring the office, or WhatsApp us a picture of the roof, the dish or whatever your TV is showing. Most of the time we can say what the fault is and give you a price there and then.
WhatsApp us- Our base
- Canterbury, since 2000
- Open
- Monday to Saturday, 8am to 7pm
- Where
- Every part of Kent: Thanet, the coast, Medway, Maidstone, Ashford and the Weald
- Cost
- Repairs from £99. Fixed quotes for everything else