Digital TV Signal

[Steve Mc]

Hi everyone,

Does anybody know what the chances are of me being able to pick up a digital TV signal using a status aerial on the Kendal caravan club site?

Thank you in advance,

Steve

 

[MrsRobinson]

Do you mean the C & CC Kendal site? Or CC site Low Wood at Sedgwick? Or C £ CC Windermere site (nearer Kendal than Windermere)?
Either way - we live nearby and have no trouble getting a signal via a bog standard status aerial (caravan stored at home). There's a mast south east of Kendal which covers the area.

 

[Woody3]

A slight clarification. It would seem the OP wants to be sure of getting a digital signal - as against an analogue signal - in Kendal.

The whole of Cumbria switched over to digital only last Autumn, so it's not so much about getting a digital signal as getting a signal - period.

 

[Heethers]

If its a CC site and has the booster system you can pick free view up on that, otherwise the Status should be fine if you can find the signal strength, we have the signal finder has recomended by PC.
Heethers

 

[Woody3]

No no no. Don't spend your money on gimmicks. Before you leave home run Wolfbane (www.wolfbane.com) and find out which transmitters serve the location you are visiting and make a note of their bearings. When you get to site first use your eyes and look where aerials on nearby properties are pointing - and by properties I mean houses, not caravans - and especially note the polarity, vertical or horizontal. Use those as a guide and bear in mind the directions you got from Wolfbane, then all should be well.

Note that TV aerials are not critical on direction like a sat dish. Most of the aerials you are likely to have on a caravan site will have a beamwidth (acceptance angle if you like) in excess of +/- 10 deg so the absolute direction in which you point it is not so important.