When we moved house about a year ago I bought my sky equipment with me (which we use as fsfs,) installed it, no problems. The house does have aerials, which I had tried when we first moved in but I couldn't get the tv to tune in - no great shakes, it gave me more incentive to put my dish up.
Yesterday the sky+ box fried itself.
I'm sort of glad: 1) because it gave me an excuse to throw an irritating piece of consumer electronics very hard onto the concrete outside and then cleave it with a splitting maul (twice,) and 2) it gives me carte blanche to get a pvr using the meandher Ltd. creditcard, without fear of reprisal.
Until I get a pvr I can't watch tv - all of a sudden those aerials have become interesting.
I've deduced that the stupid aerials are less of an issue than me being stupid, and tuning dvb rather than analogue picks up some channels using the tv's (Panasonic P37X10B) built in freeview.
There are 2 aerials on the house, pointing in different directions. It seems that one of the aerials is cabled into the front room and the other aerial to a room at the back. When I tune the tv into one or the other I can get a handful of different channels and neither gives all.
One of them doesn't find any bbc channels at all and the other finds bbc channels but with a very low signal that keeps dropping out (and it doesn't find the channels the other one finds.) On top of that I can't seem to get Dave on either of them.
Ultimately I'd like to use these aerials for the freeview channels I won't be able to get on freesat (assuming my tv is capable of utilising both freesat and a freeview at the same time.)
I've looked where the tranmitters are and as far as I can understand the map, the Emley moor transmitter seems to be the most appropriate. I haven't got a compass but it looks to me like the aerials point towards Belmont and Waltham (i assume that these must have been the best option for analogue at the time?).
Is it just a case of getting to the aerial, loosening it up and rotating it around so it points towards Emley moor or does it require a device for locating the signal accurately?
Is there any benefit to keeping both aerials, combining the signal or getting a signal from alternate transmitter? I've no idea what type of aerials they are or how to identify them but they are sticking up above the roofline on poles and look to be in good fettle. Maybe I need a new high-gain aerial and an amp?
Any advice is welcome. I'm a bit of a plumb when it comes to this stuff, sorry.
Yesterday the sky+ box fried itself.
I'm sort of glad: 1) because it gave me an excuse to throw an irritating piece of consumer electronics very hard onto the concrete outside and then cleave it with a splitting maul (twice,) and 2) it gives me carte blanche to get a pvr using the meandher Ltd. creditcard, without fear of reprisal.
Until I get a pvr I can't watch tv - all of a sudden those aerials have become interesting.
I've deduced that the stupid aerials are less of an issue than me being stupid, and tuning dvb rather than analogue picks up some channels using the tv's (Panasonic P37X10B) built in freeview.
There are 2 aerials on the house, pointing in different directions. It seems that one of the aerials is cabled into the front room and the other aerial to a room at the back. When I tune the tv into one or the other I can get a handful of different channels and neither gives all.
One of them doesn't find any bbc channels at all and the other finds bbc channels but with a very low signal that keeps dropping out (and it doesn't find the channels the other one finds.) On top of that I can't seem to get Dave on either of them.
Ultimately I'd like to use these aerials for the freeview channels I won't be able to get on freesat (assuming my tv is capable of utilising both freesat and a freeview at the same time.)
I've looked where the tranmitters are and as far as I can understand the map, the Emley moor transmitter seems to be the most appropriate. I haven't got a compass but it looks to me like the aerials point towards Belmont and Waltham (i assume that these must have been the best option for analogue at the time?).
Is it just a case of getting to the aerial, loosening it up and rotating it around so it points towards Emley moor or does it require a device for locating the signal accurately?
Is there any benefit to keeping both aerials, combining the signal or getting a signal from alternate transmitter? I've no idea what type of aerials they are or how to identify them but they are sticking up above the roofline on poles and look to be in good fettle. Maybe I need a new high-gain aerial and an amp?
Any advice is welcome. I'm a bit of a plumb when it comes to this stuff, sorry.