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Originally Posted by King Of Fools
Winter Hill and Crystal Palace are two of the "lucky" transmitters that broadcast the Freeview signal in band with the analogue signal (i.e. an old banded aerial that used to pick up analogue will pick up digital fine).
Sandy Heath is "unlucky" in that the digital signal is not in the same band as the analogue signal but spread over lots of bands. Therefore, to receive Freeview you need to replace the old Band A aerial with a bigger wideband aerial with more gain (to compensate for it being wideband).
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Yup, and although I am confident enough to replace the aerial, it's a long way up (or rather, the ground is a long way down), and as it's not my property I wouldn't want to put my foot through the roof tiles or fall to my death. Knowing my luck if I did manage to replace it, we'd get a phone call from the estate agents as soon as my feet were back on the ground to say they've sold the house and we have to move out.
Hmm, could always mount it in the attic...
A 71 element 10-14dB gain antenna should be ok in the loft right?