Can i setup freeview with no roof aerial?

curlytop12

YAY! £9.99 indoor aerial from maplins-perfect picture-am happy.
thanks to all who advised.

macman

How many channels are you getting on Freeview with that?

curlytop12

not 100's thats for sure,but plenty for me.
from memory about 20-30
apparantly i am 14 miles from mast.
i just pointed aerial in same direction as all the neighbours sky dishes.

macman

gem68 wrote: »

not 100's thats for sure,but plenty for me.
from memory about 20-30
apparantly i am 14 miles from mast.
i just pointed aerial in same direction as all the neighbours sky dishes.

Er, why would your neighbour's Sky dishes be pointing at the mast? They're much more likely to be pointing to the Astra satellite...
20-30 channels is not very good reception, typically you should be able get around 65 Freeview channels.

Kurtis_Blue

gem68 wrote: »

i just pointed aerial in same direction as all the neighbours sky dishes.

Thats not correct the satellite they are aimed at is 30,000km in the air and unrelated to freeview, try moving it around to see if it will work better.

Torry_Quine

I get perfect Freeview reception in my spare room with an indoor aerial connected to a Freeview box and CRT TV, so it can be done. It just depends on the signal strength.

curlytop12

macman wrote: »

Er, why would your neighbour's Sky dishes be pointing at the mast? They're much more likely to be pointing to the Astra satellite...
20-30 channels is not very good reception, typically you should be able get around 65 Freeview channels.

oh,didn't you realise i am totally clueless in all matters technical!
will have a play with different positions and see if it improves
thanks once again

curlytop12

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

Thats not correct the satellite they are aimed at is 30,000km in the air and unrelated to freeview, try moving it around to see if it will work better.

yes,i am an idiot,will give that a go
thankyou

Starrystarrynight

I had an aerial in the loft which was ok for receving Freeview.

Torry_Quine

Starrystarrynight wrote: »

I had an aerial in the loft which was ok for receving Freeview.

My aerial sits beside the TV!