Multiplex D which aerial Digifusion PVR200

[quattro]

I've bought the Digifusion PVR200 for my mum, her signal strenth is 68% on both recievers but I'm struggling to get the channels which are broadcast on the Multiplex D namely channel 300, she gets all the channels on the other various multiplexs bar this one.
I bought a booster from wilco to see if this helped but the signal strength didn't budge so have no purchased an aerial from Doitall for £25 which I'm yet to fit should this aerial do the job or would i be better with a more expensive one.
Looking at the houses around the area some are on the wrekin transmitter and some on the sutton coalfild transmitter, my mothers is on the sutton coalfield is she best staying with the sutton coalfiled one or moving it to wrekin?
Failing this what alternatives do i have

[LV426]

http://www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/

Check your transmitter in the transmitter channel info section; it will tell you what type (group) of aerial you need and which way to mount it. And then look at the benchmarks section for a make.

[quattro]

Originally Posted by LV426

http://www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/

Check your transmitter in the transmitter channel info section; it will tell you what type (group) of aerial you need and which way to mount it. And then look at the benchmarks section for a make.

Cheers for that but I'm still alittle lost as which aerial i should be using.

I'm seeing areial group BH in the top panel and thenaerial group B , B/W in the lower panel, go to the benchmark page and there's no refference to these there

[ROYOLD]

Sutton is Aerial Type Band "B" with Horizontal polarisation.

The Wrekin Aerials are Wideband and also horizontal polarisation.

I am surprised that you aren't getting Mux D on 68% signal.
My Digifusion 150 will pick up that on 64%. Anything less than approx 60% is a no go.

I use two signal boosters to get freeview reception. One booster near where the aerial co-ax enters property and another near TV set. If I do not use the boosters then all I get is BBC freeview channels. Maxview boosters both with approx 12.5 db gain. (that's just the ONE set boosters) If you use multi-outlet boosters you will find the gain drops to around 6 db.

Upstairs I am using an ordinary 18 element band C/D aerial (that's for Winter Hill) horizontally polarised and connected to the top of the rear wall. Fortunately this lines up well with the transmitter direction but even so I have to use two signal boosters (virtually one after the other) to get sufficient gain to receive all the freeview channels. The co-ax downlead for this setup is, of course, far shorter than the downstairs connections on the Wideband aerial. Even so - the results from both aerials are pretty similar. Only the bad weather causes loss of channels and its usually Multiplex A and 2 which I lose signals on first.

[quattro]

Thanks for all the help it was beginning to annoy me, Seems the aerial i bought will be up to the job. No doubt I'll be back if this fails to work

[ROYOLD]

Maplin have one fitted with an amplifier :

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...ges&doy=search

but don't know if its any good or not. The one I have fitted on the outside chimney is a wideband Maxview aerial I purchased from Wilkinsons Stores. About £28 I think - it was a while ago. Cost me £40 to have it fitted. Getting a bit too old to go on the roof now. Not in a particularly good freeview area but the people not all that far away have to rely on a relay transmitter which still hasn't been fitted for freeview transmissions. And the gov't says changing this area to freeview only in less than three years. Madness.