What kind of aerial is needed to use with tv with built in freview?

Question

Thank you

Answer 1

Just a normal aerial although you may find you need to get a taller one or get a booster box.

Answer 2

hi ; well really you nead a roof aerial as a in door aerial is not strong enough to get freeveiw working, i hope this helps you.

Answer 3

It depends on where you are receiving your pictures from. In analogue systems, aerials were grouped to receive transmissions in certain bands, these were a, b c/d, k and e, and still are. These groups cover certain portions of the UHF spectrum.

Pre Digital Switchover, Emley Moor was a band B transmitter, and it will continue to be so in Post Digital Switchover (PDS) and so the aerials don't really need to be changed.

Chesterfield Unstone on the other hand will transmit PDS in more than one band. This means that people receiving from there can either re-direct their aerials (if possible) to Sheffield Crosspool, or have a new wide-band aerial put in. I recommend if possible a periodic log type but as these can be weak in gain at the a band a Yagi-Uda type might be best for it.

I wouldn't recommend a  set top aerial. One engineer actually wrote a paper titled "By How Much do Set Top Aerials Suck?" (nicely objective there!) but proved his point by the decibel loss through a set top aerial as compared to a correctly installed roof aerial.

Answer 4

There is nothing magic, you just need a 'high-gain' aerial and a decent down-lead.

A suitable aerial would be a 12-element one (that's the number of short 'director' bars which it has) that will cost about £25. A good local dealer (such as Maplin) will sell you the right one for your local transmitter 'group'. You then have to fit it and align it properly.

If you have a good quality tv set (I don't include supermarket own-brands in this category), which probably cost nearly £1000 or more,  then it deserves the best input signal that it can get.

Digital terrestrial television (Freeview) is notorious for giving bad picture artifacts or even loosing whole collections of channels if the signal is poor. Booster amplifiers cannot always fix this (and they add something else to go wrong).

Consider getting a new aerial and double-screened downlead professionally supplied and installed. A specialist contractor will supply and fit everything that you need for about £130 and then you will not have any reception problems. When you supplement the set's built in tuner with invest in a nice new HD Freeview box next year your new aerial will work perfectly.

Compared to the cost of the tv set/DVD recorder etc. that you have getting a professionally installed aerial is peanuts.

Check your yellow pages.

Answer 5

Any tv aerial will do the job, providing you are in a Freeview area