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Tv With No Aerial Connection
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I`m thinking of binning a micro system and replacing it with a TV but there is no aerial connection in the room. If I get an indoor aerial, would I get as good reception as I would via the aerial on the roof?
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The standard that broadcast engineers work to is that they aim to provide a usable signal to all homes that have a good quality external aerial. There has never been any intention to provide a usable signal for people who only use indoor aerials. However if you're only just down the road from a principal (
21:40 Mon 28th Oct 2013
The standard that broadcast engineers work to is that they aim to provide a usable signal to all homes that have a good quality external aerial. There has never been any intention to provide a usable signal for people who only use indoor aerials.
However if you're only just down the road from a principal (high-powered) transmitter you'll almost certainly get a good enough signal indoors. Equally, if you're in a fringe reception area you won't get any signal at all indoors. (Where I live half the houses have external aerials pointing at one major transmitter, with the other half pointing at a different transmitter, because it's difficult to get a signal from either of them. All of them have big, multi-element aerials because smaller external aerial simply won't work well. Indoor aerials simply produce no signal whatsoever).
As a VERY rough guide, I'd suggest that if you live within 5 miles of a high-powered transmitter (not a local repeater) you'd get a decent signal indoors. If you live further away, but within 10 miles, you might well get a reasonable signal upstairs (but possibly not downstairs). Beyond 10 miles you'd probably struggle to get any form of reception.
However if you're only just down the road from a principal (high-powered) transmitter you'll almost certainly get a good enough signal indoors. Equally, if you're in a fringe reception area you won't get any signal at all indoors. (Where I live half the houses have external aerials pointing at one major transmitter, with the other half pointing at a different transmitter, because it's difficult to get a signal from either of them. All of them have big, multi-element aerials because smaller external aerial simply won't work well. Indoor aerials simply produce no signal whatsoever).
As a VERY rough guide, I'd suggest that if you live within 5 miles of a high-powered transmitter (not a local repeater) you'd get a decent signal indoors. If you live further away, but within 10 miles, you might well get a reasonable signal upstairs (but possibly not downstairs). Beyond 10 miles you'd probably struggle to get any form of reception.
Thanks for the replies. It looks like we are not too far from the Crystal Palace transmitter but when I used to live in a flat eons ago and I had an indoor aerial, I remember that the reception used to become fuzzy on stormy nights when there was a lot of wind. It seems like things haven`t progressed that much. Maybe I`ll forget the TV idea and just get a DAB/fm radio
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