All posts by hels
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oo great thanks guys. i finally found channels being "downloaded" (?) by moving the aerial about but we are all now crammed in a window seat for the aerial to hang from a curtain pole in order to have the correct alignment!! will get an extension lead and hope it doesnt reduce signal too much.
am surprised a indoor aerial was sufficient after all, though sometimes audio is a second out of kilter with visuals- is that a tuning thing? I can live with that though- havent had a tv in 3 years so anything is better than nothing right now!
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Sunday 15 March 2015 11:37AM
hi, found your site while trying to find a solution to my problem. i have never had a digital tv before, bought one in orkney for north ronaldsay. i see the transmitter is keely lang. Now the TV people said said i would be ok with a set top aerial (the tv has freeview installed in it) even though i asked for a loft aerial (its a single storey dwelling and the islanders told me they do that as the wind destroys outdoor ones). Now i have a satellite dish for internet and basing the pointing of the indoor (loop style though meant to be 42db amplified) aerial on that and old aerials on some houses, and and where the transmitter is (SW) i did a reinstall. No matter where i point it comes up "no channels found". Now unlike an analoge tv (thats all ive ever installed before) i can not check signal strength by wandering about pointing the aerial until a reception is picked up so my question is this- without getting someone in (and i cant even find an aerial installer anyways) how can i know where to point, and eliminate the "aerial isnt strong enough" debate. Surely the local tv seller should know what i needed- she said digital signal strength is much stronger than analogue so set tops work better these days. Should i go get a loft aerial like i wanted and just point it SW? Its annoying keep getting "no channels" message when everyone else round here is watching TV on an aerial system. Analogue tvs were much easier :( Any advice? I know- i feel totally technophobic not knowing, all info ive found seems to be 5 years old and about set top boxes and pre-switch over.