Hi,
We're in , OX3 at the top of the hill and not far from Beckley . We had great (din't actually need an at all!) and reasonable reception through an indoor area (at height on top of the wardrobe). We couldn't get ITV very well so we switched to terrestrial for that.
At the first stage of , most of the BBC disappeared, then 2 weeks later at the second stage, BBC4 and Sky news also disappeared - leaving us with just Yesterday, Al Jazeera and some home shopping channels!! We've retuned many times, with and without the aerial connected, new installation option, tried removing etc as advised but haven't got the BBC channels back (I think we got ITV4 - why 4 ? What happened to ITV1, 2 and 3?)

We have another TV downstairs connected to an external aerial and that is fine, so I presume it's not an issue with the signal being too strong.

Is it worth buying another indoor aerial to try? We are so disappointed - we thought things would improve not get worse!

Or do we need a second outdoor aerial to run a second TV?

Any much appreciated

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Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Tuesday 4 October 2011 3:46PM

Hello,

Just reporting back.
Our problem turned out to be nothing to do with the indoor or strength but instead it was the . Apparently at they change the type of signal and some digiboxes can't cope with the new one. It's a shame Digital UK doesn't mention this on their publicity! We had an older Goodmans GDB3 - it wasn't on the original list of non-compatible boxes but it seems it should have been - it would have saved us the expense of buying a new aerial only to find exactly the same problem!

Anyway, all fixed now and getting an excellent signal on all Freeview via our indoor aerial.

Thanks for the advice.

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