small indoors freeview aerial

[EdT]

Tried the 'Amazon Best Seller' which didnt find a single channel for me (a small black vertical jobby titled "High Gain Freeview TV Aerial - HD Portable Indoor/Outdoor Digital HD Antenna"). Can anyone recommend anything smallish that does work?

[soxboy]

EdT said:

Tried the 'Amazon Best Seller' which didnt find a single channel for me (a small black vertical jobby titled "High Gain Freeview TV Aerial - HD Portable Indoor/Outdoor Digital HD Antenna"). Can anyone recommend anything smallish that does work?

I bought from Amazon the August DT250 which sounds identical. I got it especially to watch the football on Saturday from a full size TV I put in the boot of my car whilst at a wedding and it worked perfectly. It's got a magnetic base and I attached it to the car roof.

Since then it has worked fine inside the house but works best when put on a metal object (I stuck it on one of those fancy candles in a tin).

[Mr Pointy]

No, because they don't work. There's a good reason why you need a 3 foot long piece of aluminium mounted in line of sight of the transmitter to get a decent TV signal & if you could get the same result from a tiny device in your living room everyone would be using them.

One caveat is if you live next to the Crystal Palace transmitter then yes, they might work, but then so would a coathanger (although that would probably need an attenuator).

[Big Pants]

I bought the one whose Amazon listing starts "TV Aerial, Indoor Amplified Digital HDTV Aerial 200+ Mile Range with 4K 1080P HD VHF UHF Freeview TV..." It's now branded GooQee though mine is unbranded.

It's as flimsy as a Michael Gove alibi, but sticks to my window perfectly (which is the recommended placement - behind a blind for me, so I can't see it anyway) and does exactly what it's supposed to do in giving me a ridiculous range of Freeview channels. Piece of cake to set up, too.

[sjg]

Stick your details into http://www.wolfbane.net/cgi-bin/tvd.exe? and you'll see if it's even worth trying with a portable one.

We have a little passive portable one on top of a bookcase at the moment until I sort out a new aerial and redecorate, it works fine but then we live on a hill about 4 miles from Crystal Palace.

[EdT]

sjg said:

Stick your details into http://www.wolfbane.net/cgi-bin/tvd.exe? and you'll see if it's even worth trying with a portable one.

We have a little passive portable one on top of a bookcase at the moment until I sort out a new aerial and redecorate, it works fine but then we live on a hill about 4 miles from Crystal Palace.

There are 2, both 8 miles away. No idea what all those stats are mind..

[Zoon]

I have one of these mounted as high as possible in the loft.
Picks up all freeview channels inc. HD no problem.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SLx-Directional-Amplified...

[Jamescrs]

Very much down to the area you live, I too tried some aerial from Amazon and couldn't get a thing from it despite living less than half a mile from a local mast.

I got a local TV aerial installer to put me a new aerial on the outside of the house for around £120 and it's perfect for signal.

[thegreenhell]

I have one of these on the spare TV upstairs, and it picks up exactly the same range of channels I can get on the main TV from the rooftop aerial. I'm about 20 mostly flat miles from the transmitter.

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertai...