Anyone know much about television/ aerials (1 Viewer)

Sky_Blue_Daz

Well-Known Member

• Aug 3, 2025

• #1

Got a new aerial fitted on the house we are renovating new aerial points etc . Bought a new smart tv scanned all the free view and analogue channels but the telly won’t pick up the channels . Will I need to get an aerial booster fitted ? Also we don’t have any WiFi at the minute but I wouldn’t think that would be an issue with normal channels

 

Nick

Administrator

• Aug 3, 2025

• #2

Have you tried it with a spare TV to see if it's a TV issue?

Did the person who fitted it test the points for signal strength?

 

Sky_Blue_Daz

Well-Known Member

• Aug 3, 2025

• #3

Nick said:

Have you tried it with a spare TV to see if it's a TV issue?

Did the person who fitted it test the points for signal strength?

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He said there was a good signal from the aerial

 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member

• Aug 3, 2025

• #4

When I had my aerial done a few years ago they added a booster but even so I still struggle to pick up a lot of channels, or they break up easily so programmes are unwatchable. It's bad during the summer months and especially when it's really hot and we have a band of high pressure sitting over us.

I'm in Allesley Park so quite high up and near a transmitter, but stuff that comes from Sutton Coldfield is hit and miss. I've eventually just given up and if a channel I want doesn't work then I just don't watch the programme.

 

Grendel

Well-Known Member

• Aug 3, 2025

• #5

Giles Brandreth is an expert as Rod Hull found out

 

CCfC2023

Well-Known Member

• Aug 3, 2025

• #6

If possible take the TV to a friend's house with a working aerial and do the scan there and see what it picks up .And the try it back at yours.

 

Marty

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• Aug 3, 2025

• #7

Who watches TV nowadays? Get with the times grandad.

 

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crowsnest

Well-Known Member

• Aug 3, 2025

• #8

You need to scan for digital channels. There are no analogue channels on freeview

 

fatso

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• Aug 3, 2025

• #9

Why do you need an aerial in 2025?
Just get a fire stick, connect to your broadband, and the world is your lobster.

It can replace your wireless and gramophone too

 

Sky_Blue_Daz

Well-Known Member

• Aug 3, 2025

• #10

I’ve got to sort out broadband this week. Not sure whether to go for Sky or virgin

 

Captain Dart

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• Aug 3, 2025

• #11

Don't use one but there is one on the roof and one in the loft. One day I'll get rid.

 

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wingy

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• Aug 3, 2025

• #12

Captain Dart said:

Don't use one but there is one on the roof and one in the loft. One day I'll get rid.

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When we get blacked out they would have been handy but not anymore.

 

Captain Dart

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• Aug 3, 2025

• #13

wingy said:

When we get blacked out they would have been handy but not anymore.

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I guess I can always go and watch Final Score at the window of the TV shop.
Another one to mystify the teenagers.

Can you still get long wave ham radios?

BBC, ITV and C4 push back on calls to delay terrestrial TV switch-off

Current policy only guarantees provision for broadcast TV and radio through an aerial for less than a decade until 2034, but there is discussion about extending this.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

rob9872

Well-Known Member

• Aug 3, 2025

• #14

If you have a decent data package, you might ve better off hotspotting your phone until broadband issues resolved.

 

Sky_Blue_Daz

Well-Known Member

• Aug 4, 2025

• #15

Grendel said:

Giles Brandreth is an expert as Rod Hull found out

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I’m gonna do my joke

It was the first time a draw between Manchester United and inter Milan caused hull to go down

 

RegTheDonk

Well-Known Member

• Aug 4, 2025

• #16

Needs to be a stong signal pointed at the right mast these days to get a decent digital reception.

Does the aerial feed straight into just the one TV (or recorder)?

 

Tealeaf

Active Member

• Aug 4, 2025

• #17

Sky_Blue_Daz said:

I’m gonna do my joke

It was the first time a draw between Manchester United and inter Milan caused hull to go down

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That's better than - what was the the last thing to go through Rod Hull's mind as he fell? - His conservatory

 

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Codder

Member

• Aug 4, 2025

• #18

Tealeaf said:

That's better than - what was the the last thing to go through Rod Hull's mind as he fell? - His conservatory

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and for those who remember Emu’s All Live Pink Windmill Show…

There’s somebody on the floor, there’s somebody on the floor!