We have fully switched over to digital in Cornwall, and all the promises of how the signal will be increased and all out tellies will work fine have come true - NOT!!

My house is in a valley and all but one of our aerials have stopped receiving signals, I have tried putting the remaining one through a splitting amplifier but the results are patchy.

An aerial good enough to get me any signal will cost £60 - are there any locost alternatives, would this work?

[Edited on 7/9/09 by Mark Allanson]

Screwfix to a reasonable digital high gain aerial for about £30 I think!

i bought this from argos after being disgusted at the prices or Ariels everywhere else.

i fitted it in my loft, as i couldnt be doing with the hassle of going on my roof, and the signal is perfect

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5341829/Trail/searchtext%3EARIEL.htm

[Edited on 7/9/09 by Davey D]

I'm still using my 20 year old loft aerial and all my tellys have set top boxes running off it, gave up on lame analog channels ages ago. Even the garage tv’s is using an old portable round aerial we had for the caravan and a £9 Asda digital tuner, pictures just fine. Don’t know what all the fuss was about.

[Edited on 7/9/09 by Mr Whippy]

My high gain digital arial was 28 quid from maplin. Excellent bit of kit.

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Originally posted by Davey D
i bought this from argos after being disgusted at the prices or Ariels everywhere else.

i fitted it in my loft, as i couldnt be doing with the hassle of going on my roof, and the signal is perfect

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5341829/Trail/searchtext%3EARIEL.htm

[Edited on 7/9/09 by Davey D]

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Have a look at This one

Mike

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Originally posted by miikae
Have a look at This one

Mike

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I have made aerials in the past, but from personal experiance and cost of getting the bits its far better and cheaper to buy a complete one these days, i have a garage full of amateur radio masts rotators and aerials which i cant put up due to close proximity damn power lines.

Mike

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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
are there any locost alternatives

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What's with the funny old antenna's, We just take the signal from a satellite dish, 24" dish pointed at the sky.

a sky dish with a few outlets is the way forward.

The problem with the sky dish is if you have two TV's and you want to watch different programming on each you need two receivers, which can run off one dish. HD ones are expensive.

We just had our house renovated and had a super-dooper aerial with mega-amplifier fitted so we were future-proofed... can't get a sniff of a digital signal!

Have had to put a Sat dish on the house and use Freesat!