Australian-made antennas · 25-year manufacturer warranty
Half this city points at Mount Coot-tha and much of the south-east should be pointing at Darlington Range instead. We identify which serves your address, fit an Australian-made antenna with a 25-year manufacturer warranty in the matching plane, and hand you the signal reading - not just an opinion.
Why Brisbane reception fails
Most Brisbane antennas that “stopped working” were never right to begin with. Mount Coot-tha transmits VHF Band III, horizontally polarised, at 50 kW. Darlington Range - which properly serves Springwood, Daisy Hill, Beenleigh and much of Logan and the Redlands - transmits UHF, vertically polarised, at 1.8 kW. An antenna on the wrong plane or aimed at the wrong site works in good weather and breaks up in a storm, and no amplifier fixes it. Check your own suburb with our Brisbane TV transmitter finder, or read the full verified dataset in the Brisbane transmitter & reception map.
| Site | Band | Polarisation | RF channels | ERP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Coot-tha | VHF Band III | Horizontal | 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 | 50 kW |
| Darlington Range | UHF | Vertical | 29 to 33 | 1.8 kW |
| Gregors Creek | UHF | Vertical | 41 to 45 | 3 kW |
Transmitter data verified 20 August 2026. Mount Coot-tha’s five main networks sit between 177.5 and 226.5 MHz - VHF Band III, not UHF as several Brisbane sites state.
What a job includes
Which site serves your address, which band, which plane - decided from your address before we quote, not guessed from the ladder.
A meter reading at the antenna and at the outlet. It tells us whether the fault is the antenna, the cable, a corroded splitter or an amplifier that should not be there.
An Australian-made VHF or UHF antenna to match the transmitter, carrying a 25-year manufacturer warranty, mounted in the correct plane on a properly fixed mast with quad-shield RG6 and weather-sealed connections.
Every point in the house retuned and tested, and the final signal reading handed to you - the number a future technician can check our work against.
Reception dropping out but the antenna looks fine? Start with our free guide: why your TV stops finding channels, and the fix that costs nothing. If the guide does not solve it, the repair service will.
The antennas we fit
We do not fit bargain-bin imports. Every antenna we supply is made in Australia for Australian conditions, carries a 25-year manufacturer warranty, and is named on your quote so you can check both claims yourself.
Queensland UV, summer storms and salt air off the bay eat cheap hardware. Our antennas are built here for the Australian broadcast bands - VHF Band III for Mount Coot-tha, UHF for Darlington Range - and for the weather that will be hitting them.
The antenna itself is warranted by its manufacturer for 25 years. A bargain-bin import rarely carries a written warranty at all - which is where the price difference goes.
Every quote and invoice names the antenna model and the install date. If it ever fails inside the 25 years, we help you lodge the claim with the manufacturer - no hunting for paperwork, no argument about what was fitted. What the warranty covers.
Every Brisbane roof
Tile (with the right load spreading - walked tiles crack), Colorbond and tin (sealed penetrations that stay sealed), high-set Queenslanders (harness work, longer ladders, priced honestly), two-storey homes, and apartment or motel MATV systems through the body corporate. The mounting method changes with the roof; the signal reading you get at the end does not.
What it costs
Public marketplace medians for "antenna work" mislead, because they mix five-minute realignments in with genuine supply-and-install jobs - a quality new antenna, installed and signal-tested, is a different job from a quick tweak, and two-storey or fringe-area work is different again. The full, honest breakdown of what moves the number is in our antenna cost guide. Your own number is simpler: a free fixed quote, backed by our price promise - show us a cheaper written like-for-like quote and we beat it.
Maybe you do not need a new one
Wind-turned antennas and corroded connections are repairs, not replacements - and we will say so on the roof. Snapped booms, structural rust and wrong-band antennas are replacements, because a repair there only buys months. The decision table we use is published in our repair-or-replace guide; if your antenna is the fault, the repairs service is the cheaper booking.
Before you book
Most antenna calls start with one of these questions. The answers are free; the visit is only needed if the guide points at the roof.
Which of the three sites serves your suburb, and why it decides the antenna and the plane it is mounted in.
The five faults behind most call-outs, in the order the meter finds them.
What genuinely improves a weak signal, and the case where a booster makes it worse.
The first hour, the evidence your insurer wants, and the repair that survives next season.
What needs approval in a unit or townhouse, and the application pack that gets a yes.
Antenna questions
Mounting, Starlink and pricing questions live on their own pages: TV mounting, Starlink, pricing.
Tell us your suburb and what the picture is doing - we can often name the likely fault on the phone.
Call 0467 098 943It depends on which transmitter serves your address, and that is not a matter of opinion. Most of Brisbane receives from Mount Coot-tha: VHF Band III, horizontally polarised, 50 kW. Much of the south-east - Springwood, Beenleigh, the Redlands fringe - receives from Darlington Range: UHF, vertically polarised, 1.8 kW and directional.
A VHF antenna mounted vertically, or a UHF antenna aimed at the wrong site, works on clear days and pixelates in weather. We check the transmitter for your address before quoting, fit the matching antenna in the matching plane, and hand you the signal reading at the outlet.
Australian-made antennas with a 25-year manufacturer warranty, built for Australian broadcast bands and Australian weather. The hardware is Australian-market kit with local support - Matchmaster, Hills, Kingray and Digitek antennas and amplifiers, with quad-shield RG6 cable throughout. Naming the hardware matters - it is how you compare quotes like for like, and a quote that will not name the antenna is usually hiding a bargain-bin import that carries no such warranty.
Only if the signal reading says so, and in a surprising amount of Brisbane the answer is no. Close to Mount Coot-tha the common fault is too much signal - an amplifier makes that worse, and removing one is sometimes the whole fix.
Where an amplifier is genuinely needed - long cable runs, multiple TV points, fringe areas - the distinction matters: a masthead amplifier boosts at the antenna before noise gets in; a distribution amplifier only splits what has already arrived. We fit the one the reading calls for.
Yes, and the same visit is the cheap way to do it - the ladder is already up and the roof space is already open. Extra points are quoted inside the same fixed number - the cable route decides the price. Details on the TV point installation page.
It depends on VHF vs UHF hardware, mast height, roof type and storeys - which is why we quote your actual address as a free fixed number in one call, with the diagnostic service call credited toward any fix. Have a written quote from another insured installer? Our price promise: show us and we beat it.
Shared systems - MATV in the trade - belong to the body corporate, not the individual unit, so the work order needs to come from the building manager or committee. We service MATV head-ends, amplifiers and distribution in unit blocks and motels, and we can write the technical fault report your body corporate needs to approve the work.
Get a price
Reception faults follow patterns by area. Your suburb and a description of the picture gets you an honest starting point on the phone.
Or email info@toplineantennas.com