Problems with Freeview installation

[ScotsPine]

Re: re

the aerial came from the local 'aerial man' and it is up on the roof. installation was part of the deal with the 'aerial man'.

[fiddleabout]

Re: re

At least the broadband media put it about that you need to check your exchange first.
Not the b@stard BBC though....

There is a postcode checker though ...
www.bbc.co.uk/digital/howtoget.shtml

Naturally being a rustic Morris Dancing banjo player ( according to the rabbit ) I can't get any digital - outside freeview area, no cable, and the building is listed so I can't put up a dish.

This does not particularly bother me - in the previous house we had Sky while my daughter was living at home and I found that instead of flipping through 4 channels of tulipe and turning it off and shoving in a DVD I had to flip through about 50 channels of tulipe before turning it off and shoving in a DVD (the other 150 channels are for shoppers and god botherers or those with even lower IQs than chimpanzees)

[Vetran]

Re: re

hurrah I'm now in a freeview area - bye bye Sky £20 a month better off and less rubbish to watch I will miss discovery & scifi though.

[zeitghost]

Re: re

But it's only discovery, history, scifi and Angel/Enterprise that make digital tv worth while.... though £20/month is quite a lot really.

What makes it particularly good value is not having to watch the output of the local yokels when they commandeer BBC2 to put on endless rugby/soccer/darts/bowling matches.

The audience watching nowheresville south wales playing nowheresville north wales must be astronomic.

And it pisses off the Trekkies.

Like me.

[Cojak]

Latest update...

Bought an 18 element aerial from Maplins.

Hubby's banging, drilling and thudding around in the loft and has set up said aerial to 4 degrees.

Most channels now available but one or two suffering from
' time delayed blockiness'...

hhmmm... does this mean I have to go out and buy a booster? Again?

Watch this space...

[sparklelard]

Can you put a booster on a booster?

[fiddleabout]

Best place for an aerial amp is right up near the aerial. It's all a question of signal to noise ratio.

[Cojak]

ta fiddle, this may be the next step...

[fiddleabout]

One other thing to bear in mind - you can lose 10db or more by having the aerial in a loft as opposed to on the chimney - how's hubby on the roof.

Just after I left school BBC2 came out and I used to do UHF aerial installations with a mate at weekends - we both made more in a weekend than we did during the week working - if we could have got enough work and had the bottle we would have set up our own business. I never had a problem with doing it then but I wouldn't do it now.

[Cojak]

He's just spent 2 hours up there and got worse reception on the the roof than in the loft (v 'snowy'). He fitted a 6ft extension too...

Bizarre...

He thinks the cable he used might be crap (and too long), but when do you stop throwing good money after bad?

It's all very disheartening...