What are the aerial types about? Are they high-gain?
Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV See: Freeview reception - all about aerials
TV aerials are designed to receive certain groups of channels, for example a type "E" can receive on channels 35 though 68, and a "W" is a "wideband" aerial. This is different to a "high-gain" aerial. For more information can I suggest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/analogue_tv/aerials.shtml
In the UK the main transmitters require the TV aerial to have it's "fins" horizontally, relay trasmitters require the aerial to be mounted with these fins vertically.
Both the type and position of aerials are designed to give the best possible reception with the least interference, and change from place-to-place around the UK
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Sunday, 9 January 2011
P Shelley: No, an indoor aerial is not suitable for Freeview reception. You can attach more Freesat boxes to you dish, however.
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Friday, 11 February 2011
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keith3:25 PM
Normanton
hi i have been told at maplins an indoor aerial will be ok for freeview didital is this wrong. keith
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keith: Indoor aerial are very poor for reliable Freeview reception. Sometimes you can place them by a suitable window and receive a partial service, most often not.
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Thursday, 7 April 2011
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david heads9:38 AM
Lutterworth
my ariel is on the roof.it is about 1 1/2 yrs old.we have always had a perfect picture.the ariel is one of those with the yellow parts on it.it has about eleven or twelve prongs on it split between two bars.a yellow plate on top and yellow plate on bottom.we have had very good reception until about a month ago.the picture keeps freezing and then disapears.i cannot get any itv channels and a lot of the time no bbc.i have looked at the diagnostics on my tv and the signal strenghth on most chanels fluctuates between 0 and 60%.and then comes in at 100% sometimes .any ideas
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Saturday, 9 April 2011
Monday, 5 September 2011
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Andrew12:06 PM
Gerrards Cross
Hi,
I would really appreciate some help:
I have a new Samsung TV with built in Freeview HD. From the channels list, I seem to be receive the Freeview HD channels that are available in my area. From the postcode search I apprear to be 24 miles from Crystal Palace.
However, my problem is with the reception of freeview HD. While normal freeview works fine, the HD is un-watchable. The picture breaks up much like a sky dish in heavy rain.
I have a booster connected to the roof mounted aerial, and a single cable that has been spliced into three to service three TV sets in the house. My suspicion is the cable splicing is to blame for the lack of reception, but some confirmation would be much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
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Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Andrew: You are in a strong signal area, so you might need to remove the booster from your system for Freeview HD to work.
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Sunday, 11 September 2011
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Bill4:08 PM
Goole
Done all the routines but still missing CH52 when retuning it shows 28/30% signal strength
all others are OK @ 60%+ BBC etc 80%. Retuned Wed 7th Emley moor transmitter, and several times since.
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jb384:58 PM
Bill: Channel 52 is on very low power at present and so there really isnt much (or even worth) trying to do anything about it, as its only ten days until switchover stage 2 takes place, then your problem should be completely rectified.
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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Bill4:39 PM
Goole
Spot on jb38 thanks.
Another problem, I have a Goodmans LD2667D and unable to get my sky connection to work on it, previously it was connected to an analogue goodmans and worked ok.
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