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Only as a standby in case of trees blocking the Sat dish, or just occasionally for recording from DVB-T onto a USB stick.
TIA
Dave
Dave,
Like anyone else within the industry, I cannot recommend an indoor aerial. They possibly will regain some of their popularity in those areas with excellent signal post switchover, but they are too hit and miss for pre switchover and especially within the effective faraday cage of a caravan or motorhome.
Gerry
I have a Status omni direction aerial on my van, "factory fitted". It's OK if you are very near to the transmitter, but not much use if you are more than a mile of 2 away.
Ray
If you have a Status Omni already fitted, don't write it off, they work very well in the areas where digital cut over has been completed.
peedee
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I have a Status omni direction aerial on my van, "factory fitted". It's OK if you are very near to the transmitter, but not much use if you are more than a mile of 2 away.
Ray
If you have a Status Omni already fitted, don't write it off, they work very well in the areas where digital cut over has been completed.
peedee
Peedee,
There is some truth in that and with Region Description now being made live on all switchover regions it will help to eliminate unwanted channels. Problem is with older receivers that will not be region descriptor compatible. They will have problems with an omni directional aerial as they will not be able to select the correct channel from the possible choice of transmitters.
Following switchover, some parts of the country will be able to receive signals from up to ten different transmitters due to the use of non-directional aerials and the receivers will not be able to handle the numbers of available channels.
Gerry
Peedee,
There is some truth in that and with Region Description now being made live on all switchover regions it will help to eliminate unwanted channels. Problem is with older receivers that will not be region descriptor compatible. They will have problems with an omni directional aerial as they will not be able to select the correct channel from the possible choice of transmitters.
Following switchover, some parts of the country will be able to receive signals from up to ten different transmitters due to the use of non-directional aerials and the receivers will not be able to handle the numbers of available channels.
Gerry
Gerry, I was not aware region descriptions were available. However cannot see what difference it will make if your receiver is not capable of storing excessive channels. I appreciate there is a limit but surely if there is not enough storage they will just be rejected or is there more to it than that?
I don't use a Humax set top box anymore but down in the west country were I could pick up transmissions from Mendip and Stockland I had no problems storing over 90 different digital channels.
peedee
ps not tried it yet because I have never encountered a problem but you could always do a manual tune?
peedee
______________________________________________________________ The best journeys are not always in straight lines
For an account of our journeys click >here< (Last updated 1st March 2012)
Peedee,
There is some truth in that and with Region Description now being made live on all switchover regions it will help to eliminate unwanted channels. Problem is with older receivers that will not be region descriptor compatible. They will have problems with an omni directional aerial as they will not be able to select the correct channel from the possible choice of transmitters.
Following switchover, some parts of the country will be able to receive signals from up to ten different transmitters due to the use of non-directional aerials and the receivers will not be able to handle the numbers of available channels.
Gerry
Gerry, I was not aware region descriptions were available. However cannot see what difference it will make if your receiver is not capable of storing excessive channels. I appreciate there is a limit but surely if there is not enough storage they will just be rejected or is there more to it than that?
I don't use a Humax set top box anymore but down in the west country were I could pick up transmissions from Mendip and Stockland I had no problems storing over 90 different digital channels.
peedee
ps not tried it yet because I have never encountered a problem but you could always do a manual tune?
peedee
Peedee,
Theoretically it is possible to have 64 channels on each of the 6 muxes, so in theory 384 channels including radio and data channels. Where there are multiple transmitters available you can multiply that by the number of transmitters. So for those poor unfortunates who will receive from 10 transmitters, up to 3840 channels.
Many boxes will only store the first 100 found although most will store the strongest 100. These may not be the channels that are required. From next year all receivers must have storage capability of a minimum of 1500 channels.
Gerry
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