A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

Hi,

I'm trying to find a decent indoor aerial that will with work with both analogue and digital TV.

Has anyone got one that gives good reception please? TIA.

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

I use this one

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?...44188&doy=13m9

but I have no idea how good it is for digital (nothing to try it on ;) ), although it is fine for terrestrial.

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

Unless you can see Winter Hill out of a window, I don't think you'll have much chance.

More info here:
http://www.dtg.org.uk/publications/b...rements_v1.pdf

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

http://www.telecam.demon.co.uk/html/tce2000.html

About a tenner at Argos.

The SLX booster Argos do is pretty mean too, about the same price.

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

before you buy anything i would check the freeview online postcode checker

to make sure you have a good signal ;)

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

Although let's be fair, a large conurbation like Manc would be served well for signal.

That said, look at where I live (Nottm) - served by 4 transmitters (Waltham is the primary, its Nottingham relay, W Mids from Sutton Coldfield in Brum, and Yorkshire from Belmont in N Lincs), none of them do a particularly good job!

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

I was looking at that earlier, my postcode can't get digital TV apparently but my neighbours and the surrounding houses can.

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

maybe its a get out thing for bad reception areas :shrug:

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

I checked every postcode on my street, they can all get it according to the postcode checker, it's only me that can't .. I feel victimised! Hopefully it's an error in their database.

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

It is, they err on the side of caution. I put my uni post code in, said I could get naff, with a set-top aerial I could get three watchable multiplexes.

Bifta, borrow a mate's STB and try it.

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

Don't worry. Despite being with Comtel for several years before NTL took over as far as they were concerned OX18 had cable but OX8 did not (both got Comtel at the same time) :shrug: :rolleyes:

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

:ghugs: your not being victimised its an error "i think?" must be yeh :)

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

We've got Sky atm and will have for the forseeable future but I wouldn't mind using a digital TV card upstairs without having to fork out for a digisender, rather not fork out for one though unless I know for definate if I can get a signal. No-one else I know has ever had Sky in our street let alone Freeview so I can't really go begging.

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

Pass but if you have an argos you can take it back if you dont like it

naughty but it works :disturbd:

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

You could fit a twin (or even a quad) LNB to the dish and then run another STB off it. This needn't be a Sky box, an ordinary free-to-air one will do. For example, Lidl had some for £39.95 last week. This will give you all the FTA channels listed here in camel's breath yellow:
http://www.lyngsat.com/28east.html

From early next year you'll be able to get ITV1 this way too:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...highlight=itv1

Re: A Decent Indoor TV Aerial
 

Not necessarily. If that conurbation has a lot of steel buildings (office blocks etc) or cranes, they will actually have a negative impact on the signal. When I was a kid, we lived in Lewisham and we didn't get a reliable television signal for 9 months while Citibank were building ther regional office in Lewisham.


Regarding the original query: We have a freeview box set up so we can watch something else while recording from NTL (the amount of times we do watch something else while recording is minimal, so it's not worth paying £15 extra a month for a second NTL box).

We use http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...clickfrom=name and get a good signal as long is it's by the window and both antennae are extended. Having said that, we are only a few miles from Crystal Palace, and there are no high rise buildings (steel or otherwise) around us. If we move the freeview box though, we need a signal amp.

Something similar happened to my boss. He ordered NTL and was told they could not install it as his address didn't exist. He disputed this, having lived there for 5 years and eventually they sent an engineer round. Turns out his address wasn't on the postcode database issued by the Royal Mail, as he had similar problems ordering a TV online.