Digital Aerial

mardatha

ow much on a rough guide, would we pay for a digital aerial to be fitted on the roof of a bungalow?

imho

I paid £275 ! I had already fitted new aerial cable . I had to have a booster as well and a conecter that connects 4 tvs .
Most places will come and and give you a free quote .

mardatha

Oh god. LOL!

moonrakerz

There is NO such thing as a digital aerial - it is just an ordinary aerial !

Samba_Pa_Ti

moonrakerz wrote: »

There is NO such thing as a digital aerial - it is just an ordinary aerial !

true, but a hi-gain aerial will help with receiving digital tv.

mardatha

We are in a very poor reception area here, very hilly - that's why we got Sky to begin with. Even with a booster we got poor reception. But Sky got too expensive and we are looking for the best alternative now.

imho

I am not sure but cant you use your sky box to watch digital ?

Mels1

Definitely no such thing as a digital aerial.

Check out the postcode checker on the digital uk website (a google search will bring it up) and see when your area switches over to digital tv as the Freeview signal will be greatly improved at switchover and you may find you don't actually need a new aerial.

If you still think you need a new one, search on the above website for registered aerial installers.

Should cost in the region of £150-£180 for a complete new system but you may find the cables are ok so you could be cheaper.

espresso

mardatha wrote: »

We are in a very poor reception area here, very hilly - that's why we got Sky to begin with. Even with a booster we got poor reception. But Sky got too expensive and we are looking for the best alternative now.

So simply cancel your Sky subscription and view the free to air channels - not as good as Freeview but you can at least receive a Sky signal.

kwikbreaks

Mels1 wrote: »

Definitely no such thing as a digital aerial.

Correct but there is a difference between aerials designed for Freeview (digital) use and their analogue predecessors.

Freeview tends to use channels scattered right across the UHF TV band while analogue transmissions use closely spaced channels. The UHF TV band is (was?) split into lettered channel groupings and you'd get an aerial designed to work best with your channel group. With digital you need a wide bandwidth antenna. It may be that once analogue is shut down they'll revert to grouping.

espresso

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Correct but there is a difference between aerials designed for Freeview (digital) use and their analogue predecessors.

Freeview tends to use channels scattered right across the UHF TV band while analogue transmissions use closely spaced channels. The UHF TV band is (was?) split into lettered channel groupings and you'd get an aerial designed to work best with your channel group. With digital you need a wide bandwidth antenna. It may be that once analogue is shut down they'll revert to grouping.

Wide band aerials are only required for a few transmitters!