I live near to the Pontypriddrelaytransmitter and so have always only been able to pick up the basic number of freeviewchannels since the switch over (I was a bit fed up about that!). I decided today to buy and fit a high gain digital tv aerial today along with new digital cable and managed to pick up the full range of all freeview channels from the wenvoe transmitter (even though there's a mountain in the way!). I live right in the shadow of the mountain by the centre of Pontypridd and not far from Merthyr Road where another person who was having problems has previously posted questions. I was really cynical before trying, although now I wish I'd upgraded my aerial and cable ages ago. I was completely surprised by the result. Paid about £40 for the aerial from a well known hardware supplier in Pontypridd and really pleased that I did as it was well worth it. I hope this post can help others with standard aerials having problems in the area. Also, an alternative tip, but I found a really useful free Android phone app that uses GPS to say exactly how to point the tv aerial towards different transmitters along with their distances which worked perfectly. I read about the idea on another forum and give it a go, was brilliant.
Sunday 2 June 2013 10:10PM
I live near to the Pontypridd relay transmitter and so have always only been able to pick up the basic number of freeview channels since the switch over (I was a bit fed up about that!). I decided today to buy and fit a high gain digital tv aerial today along with new digital cable and managed to pick up the full range of all freeview channels from the wenvoe transmitter (even though there's a mountain in the way!). I live right in the shadow of the mountain by the centre of Pontypridd and not far from Merthyr Road where another person who was having problems has previously posted questions. I was really cynical before trying, although now I wish I'd upgraded my aerial and cable ages ago. I was completely surprised by the result. Paid about £40 for the aerial from a well known hardware supplier in Pontypridd and really pleased that I did as it was well worth it. I hope this post can help others with standard aerials having problems in the area. Also, an alternative tip, but I found a really useful free Android phone app that uses GPS to say exactly how to point the tv aerial towards different transmitters along with their distances which worked perfectly. I read about the idea on another forum and give it a go, was brilliant.