[scamp88]

Blah Blah Blah and More effing Blah!!!!

I have just got a freeview box for my bedroom, because the wonderful sky+ in 3 rooms would be been way to expensive, and i check on the website and filled in my post code and it tells me that i am perfect match for the freeview package and get all the channels, so i merrily skip on down the my local argos and order my freeview box and a special airel for it because i needed a new one anyway...

and lo and behold the website lied to me, i cant get the full package .... I seem to get all the BBC channels which if nice, but no Channel 4/E4/More4 apart from E4 +1 and no ITV Chanels and i was wondering Does anyone have any tips/hints as to what i could do to make tthe singal better or i am just going to have to live with it!!!

And argos where like you cant bring it back if you dont have singal !!! How rude!!!!


Help

Liz xxx

[Console]

Well, it could be your aerial. I fashioned mine out of two coat hangers, a y-connector and a long piece of coaxial cable so I could put it in the loft; I get 90-100% signal strength (it slightly depends on the weather). What sort of aerial is it you bought? Does it have a signal booster?

[scamp88]

I will put what it says on the Box...

Tristar Amplified Indoor Loop Aerial

-UHF/VHF Indoor Loop Aerial
-Built In Adjustable Amplifier
-Suitable for both analogue and dgital TV . Radio singnals
-Fully Adjustable elements
-RF IN /OUT sockets concert the aerail to a booster.

[Console]

Have you tried increasing the amplifier? Also, is it one of those small circle aerials with about a 5cm radius?

[scamp88]

http://www.dealclick.co.uk/product/1229 ... erial-.php

That is the one i have i found it online!!

Yeah it has a ring!

xx

[Console]

I think that's the one my mum's got; I had to turn the amplifier almost up to full to get a good signal out of it.

[Walter Sobchak]

I think I used to have one of those, and mine wouldn't work on digital at all, no matter how much I moved it around, and twiddled the amplifier, in the end I bought a splitter/amplifier/booster and put it in the loft.
Which meant I had to feed some power into the loft, so I ran an extension cable straight up the wall from a bedroom socket, and fixed the 4 bar socket onto the wall in the loft.
Then I had to attach the existing aerial to the booster, which meant crawling to the narrowest point in the loft, making sure I stayed on the rafters.
Then I fed 4 coax cables around the house, 1 to the front room, 1 to my bedroom and 1 each to the other 2 bedrooms.
Fitted all the cables into conduit.
It all works a treat, but was a awkward task to perform.
Of course you could buy a 'normal' aerial and put it in your loft, you could even run a booster from your bedroom.
I just wish you all the best!

EDIT: just a bit of web-info should anyone want it:

http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/
http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/freeviewhelp.html

[scamp88]

Its really annoying me now!!!

might just ask my dad to get someone to come around and connect it all to the main aerial hopfully that should work!

Liz