A district of low houses and blocks
Bonavista grew up west of Tarragona with a street plan you recognise at once: straight roads, many of them numbered, and a mix of one and two storey houses with newer blocks of flats. For an aerial engineer that means two very different kinds of job within a few streets of each other.
In the low houses, each home normally has its own aerial on the roof terrace. Over the years we have seen everything up there: rusted masts lashed to a chimney, cable running down the facade with nothing holding it, and amplifiers from decades ago that no longer suit the frequencies digital television uses now. In the blocks it is the opposite: the system is communal, and what looks like one flat’s fault often belongs to the whole building.
What goes wrong most with aerials in Bonavista
- Channels lost after the frequency change. Since the second digital dividend in 2020 handed over the 700 MHz band, plenty of aerials still run old kit that filters badly or boosts the wrong part of the band.
- Aerials turned by the wind, on roof terraces where the bracket has deteriorated.
- Coaxial cable baked by the sun on the runs down the facade.
- 5G and LTE interference, which shows up as drop-outs on particular channels and clears with the right filter.
Our approach is simple: we go up, measure with a field meter and find the exact point of the fault. If it is a connector, we change a connector, not a whole aerial. More on that under TV aerials and satellite dishes.
Cameras for shops and homes
Bonavista has a lot of street-level trade and many homes you walk into straight off the pavement. That is why we are asked for CCTV so often here:
- In shops: IP cameras at the till and the door, with an NVR recorder and a view from your phone.
- In low houses: cameras at the front door and in the back yard, combined with an alarm if you want one.
- In the garages and storerooms of the blocks, always with the residents’ association on board.
We guide you on GDPR: the video surveillance sign, who gets access to the footage, and what a camera must not point at.
New aerial points and dishes in extended houses
Many Bonavista houses have been altered a bit at a time: a room opened up, a floor added, a garage turned into a studio. Every extension tends to end with a television and no socket, or a cable trailing through a window. We add aerial points with the right cable and, where it is needed, a small distribution amplifier so the signal reaches every set properly.
If the household watches channels from another country, we also fit satellite dishes on the roof terrace, anchored solidly and aligned with the satellite that carries what you want.
Door entry in the district’s blocks
The blocks of flats in Bonavista generally have door entry systems with a lot of years on them. Buttons that will not ring, a hum on the handset, locks that refuse to release: those are the usual complaints. We work with audio and video door entry systems, and we tell you honestly whether repairing makes sense or whether replacing works out better.
Step by step
You message or ring, we ask a few pointed questions and arrange to come and look. Once we have inspected the installation you get a free quote, no obligation. If you accept it, we do the work and check with the meter that every socket is receiving a proper signal before we leave.
Getting to Bonavista
We set out from Salou, and Bonavista is close by on the western side of Tarragona; a quarter of an hour is normal, depending on traffic. We work across the whole district and in neighbouring Campclar, Torreforta and Riu Clar, as well as in La Canonja, which borders Bonavista. For the rest of the city, see our Tarragona page.