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Indoor Aerial
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Does anybody have any advice on an indoor aerial that actually does the job pls ? I have a small collection which have promised the earth and not delivered
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The standard to which broadcaster engineers work is that they aim to provide a usable signal to all homes which are equipped with a good quality EXTERNAL aerial. i.e. from the very earliest of days of TV broadcasting in this country, it has NEVER been the intention to provide a signal which will work with an indoor aerial.
Obviously there will be some people who live close enough to a TV transmitter to get a decent signal indoors but the VAST MAJORITY of UK households will NEVER be able to get away with just using an indoor aerial (irrespective of the makes and models that they might try).
So you might well be trying to do the impossible. (It's become even harder to get away with using just an indoor aerial since to switchover to digital TV, as digital services require a stronger signal in order to produce a picture without break-up. The later reduction in power of many transmitters, in order to avoid interference to 5G mobile phone signals, hasn't helped either).
Where I live it's totally impossible to get any sort of signal at all using any sort of set-top aerial. Almost every house around here has a multi-element aerial, mounted on the top of a tall pole, on its roof. When mine fell down I hadn't got the money to pay for an aerial fitter's services (and I'd not got a ladder to try doing the job myself), so I was forced into seeking an indoor solution. I've now got a perfect signal but ONLY by installing one of these in my loft
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AND by having no fewer than THREE signal boosters between the aerial and my telly.
If you live in a similar area, where there's only a poor TV signal, you've got NO HOPE AT ALL of ever getting a set-top aerial to work. You need to think about getting an external aerial or, at the very least, trying a full-size aerial in your loft. Alternatively you could consider installing a satellite dish (together with a set-top box) to get your TV services from Freesat, subscribing to a cable TV service (Virgin Media) or watching TV online (TVPlayer.com)
Obviously there will be some people who live close enough to a TV transmitter to get a decent signal indoors but the VAST MAJORITY of UK households will NEVER be able to get away with just using an indoor aerial (irrespective of the makes and models that they might try).
So you might well be trying to do the impossible. (It's become even harder to get away with using just an indoor aerial since to switchover to digital TV, as digital services require a stronger signal in order to produce a picture without break-up. The later reduction in power of many transmitters, in order to avoid interference to 5G mobile phone signals, hasn't helped either).
Where I live it's totally impossible to get any sort of signal at all using any sort of set-top aerial. Almost every house around here has a multi-element aerial, mounted on the top of a tall pole, on its roof. When mine fell down I hadn't got the money to pay for an aerial fitter's services (and I'd not got a ladder to try doing the job myself), so I was forced into seeking an indoor solution. I've now got a perfect signal but ONLY by installing one of these in my loft
https:/
AND by having no fewer than THREE signal boosters between the aerial and my telly.
If you live in a similar area, where there's only a poor TV signal, you've got NO HOPE AT ALL of ever getting a set-top aerial to work. You need to think about getting an external aerial or, at the very least, trying a full-size aerial in your loft. Alternatively you could consider installing a satellite dish (together with a set-top box) to get your TV services from Freesat, subscribing to a cable TV service (Virgin Media) or watching TV online (TVPlayer.com)
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