ok did away with the sky but can still get the free channels but ya get more on digital , did a check to see if i could get freeview in my area and came back that i could so got a £30.00 box from tesco and bought a new 48 eliment wideband ariel set it all up and put the ariel in the loft as thats were the old one was , turned everything on and i can get all the channels, some i get at full strenth and all the channels look better than sky, the problem i have is that i struggle to get itv1 at full strenth i get it at about a quater strenth then some times it cracks up but what bugs me is its spot on some times and then the signal drops , so bought a 25db uhf masthead amplifier and 12v power supply set it all up and ... no change at all ? whats all that about ? the thing is now i have to have the power supply pluged in for the tv to work,, why or some channels spot on and others crap? my next step is to move the ariel out side and get some CT100/H109F digital coaxal, any help on this guys, ive also done a check on how far away the trasmitter is and its 44 miles

thanks
andy

 

just a quick question mate do you have virgin broadband if so got just thing for you

 

If the signal is to strong its can make the problem get a db adaptor on it to weaken the signal and stops the blead over from over channels !!

 

Just get a feesat box as well, I have both so get even more free channels.
tabetha

 

I have to have a 68db amp on mine to get channels, but most are faultless. Two things that affect recption are tropospheric propagation (google it) and mopeds. One of them fuckers come pas and the signal breaks and cracks like hell. Tropospheric propagation is to do with bouncing radio waves (RF signals) across the curvature or the globe and to do with different atmospheric levels. Weather is the biggest killer here - high and low pressure can change the signal strength easil. You might find when the weather clears up and settles out that you get much better reception. On bad pressure days I can lose all the Five channels, and often the ITV channels too. This is to do with mux's. A mux is a group of channels on one band - each mux is a band that can hold 5 or 6 channels. Some mux's are stronger than others, to do with bandwidth vs bit rate. So often the BBC mux's are stronger than the ITV mux's and five mux's, etc.

Best bet for the aerial is to put it outside for sure - Freeview is notoriously bad with indoor aerials!