boosting freeview signal

Breamy · 14 Jun 2006 at 11:50

as title any way to do this?

Wryel · 14 Jun 2006 at 11:53

Yeah - get an amplifier! I got a battery powered one as someone said you can get AC interference with mains ones.

Red and White · 14 Jun 2006 at 11:53

wrong forum..

but you can get signal boosters from plenty of places. big high street shops sell them. dunno how well they are gonna work for freeview tho.

best thing to do is to plug into your main aerial and if its not already, get it put on the roof. if its in the attack the signal may be weaker.

Stellios · 14 Jun 2006 at 11:54

One of those signal bossters you can buy might help, but dont hold em to that.

My signals well and crap at the minute, im lucky to get 5 channels from an aeriel on the roof, the fitter is coming back out next week to see if he can get it on the apex of the house.

Breamy · 14 Jun 2006 at 11:57

wel i bought an antenna which says it can be used for digital but i get absolutely no signal in my room for either digital or analogue so i plugged it into the main ariel socket and i get around 3 channels and the signal is really bad and keeps cutting out

spirit · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:04

i found that angling my antenna to a strange angle gave me really good reception. That combined with my box allowing me to use two antennas.

Breamy · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:06

ive tried everything with the antenna its useless. i think my room is like a blackspot for signals as i get hardly any wireless signal in it either.

think im gonna take the whole lot back and get a refund

ic1male · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:08

Breamy said:
wel i bought an antenna which says it can be used for digital but i get absolutely no signal in my room for either digital or analogue so i plugged it into the main ariel socket and i get around 3 channels and the signal is really bad and keeps cutting out

Is it a thin vertical wire standing on a base? I got one like that and it's crap. Gives a good analogue picture but zero digital reception. I use an analogue internal aerial and it is almost perfect.

Breamy · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:09

it has like a loop of wire coming from the top. i cant even get analogue reception from it

Kell_ee001 · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:11

Breamy said:
ive tried everything with the antenna its useless.

Mines the same - I have built in freeveiw and have yet to see a single channel! :mad:

Terrestrial channels suck too while the lass in the room next to mine has a great picture on her crap TV! Going to get a new cable and an amp for it.

Wryel · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:18

www.freeview.co.uk - have you checked your postcode there?

Breamy · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:20

ye says it should be ok. think im gonna get a refund

Tru · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:21

Get a wideband aerial, they cost about £15-20 from a decent supplier and will give you a wall-to-wall reception, mount it nice and high and you'll get 40+ channels.

Breamy · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:31

i cant really afford all these things having just bought the box and an ariel so ill just take it back

Kell_ee001 · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:35

Tru said:
Get a wideband aerial, they cost about £15-20 from a decent supplier and will give you a wall-to-wall reception, mount it nice and high and you'll get 40+ channels.

My problem is that I'm in a house share so I don't think a wideband aerial is suitable

Tru · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:41

Kell_ee001 said:
My problem is that I'm in a house share so I don't think a wideband aerial is suitable

Aye they're pretty big, but if there's already an aerial on the roof or in the loft it could be swapped for the wideband.

Or you could decorate it with sparkly things and hang it from your ceiling.

matty · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:42

i have a freeview box and a cheap indoor aeiral attached to a booster and it works fine

Breamy · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:45

think asda will refund me??

Kell_ee001 · 14 Jun 2006 at 12:45

Tru said:
Aye they're pretty big, but if there's already an aerial on the roof or in the loft it could be swapped for the wideband.

Or you could decorate it with sparkly things and hang it from your ceiling.

LOL

While I appreciate the thought sparkly doesn't really work for me and unfortunatley I doubt my landlord would be willing to change the aerial (and I don't intend to buy one for him to keep either!)

I've put off buying an amp though because I've heard so manyt times tha they just aren't worth it - anyone have an personal recommendation?

carpmaster · 15 Jun 2006 at 21:45

Kell_ee001 said:
LOL

While I appreciate the thought sparkly doesn't really work for me and unfortunatley I doubt my landlord would be willing to change the aerial (and I don't intend to buy one for him to keep either!)

I've put off buying an amp though because I've heard so manyt times tha they just aren't worth it - anyone have an personal recommendation?

Not worth trying. If you can't get a single channel without an amp, you won't have much luck whatever you do. Amps should only really be used to overcome long downlead losses, or to compensate for a split.