Albert47

Can anyone recomend a very good TV signal booster, as my tv signal is s***e down here in southern england.
I have chosen not to get sky tv as IMO it is a rip off!!!!! and i'm too tight to pay £40 a month (well for the time being anyway). . I do have freeview digital tv but because the signal is bad, the reception is bad. It just needs a boost.
Anyone with the same problem????

scrooge

Cheers Albert

alcazar

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New aeriel?

When my channel 5 terrestrial signal was weak, I just went to the dreaded Currys, and bought the weakest of their 3 signal boosters, with the proviso that I could take it back if it didn't do the trick, and swap it for the stronger and so on.
Alcazar

Luke

Just got digital to.. Much better picture.

For value for money i would get a good aerial company in and get a proper digi ready set up.

Albert47

Alcazar Did it do the trick?????

I dont think it is the aerial, the guy who lived here before me told me it was fairly new. I live low down. so the signal must have a problem getting here. It requires a boost, Them currys boosters any good????

dba

why not go cable or digital?

carl

There's no substitute for metal in the sky. If you're getting a crap signal to noise ratio at the antenna, then by boosting it you'll get more power at the TV but the same crap S/N ratio. Signal boosters are only really useful, IMHO, for boosting at the masthead to compensate for long runs of lossy coax inside the house.

Bigger antenna/better alignment is the answer. Do you have the correct class of antenna for your local transmitter (there used to be a list in the Maplins catalogue)?