In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes
jgharston wrote:
A collegue from my Council days contacted me yesterday.
She's got an elderly client, analogue TV about to be turned
off, Free Digibox men came around to give him a set-top
box.
Oh no, mate. You need a new TV mate. Can't plug this in
mate, waving a SCART plug at him.
No, he just needs a UHF aerial lead, just like my TV, I showed
her. Here, have a spare lead, I can pop around and plug it in
for him.
Working now, but he's got a crappy little indoor aerial and the
digital pictures and sound break up. He hasn't got an outdoor
aerial. What indoor aerial would people recommend. He's
got line of sight to Crosspool transmitter about 3 miles
away which his analogue channels are currently tuned in to.

Almost no indoor aerial works with digital.

Nonsense. An indoor aerial leaves a lot to be desired, but if you can
get satisfactory analogue, you'll probably get digital OK.

You need some sor of directional thing as high as you can get it.

It certainly helps - but, in this situation, is it necessary?

Try a camping antenna.

As the aerial is pointing out of the window, and can actually see the
transmitter, I'm surprised the digital is no good. If five analogue
signs were perfectly OK, the digital signals should be OK. Even if they
are in a different of the UHF spectrum, that aerial at
http://goo.gl/052pb
is a log periodic, so it is (supposed to be) wideband. I'm surprised it
doesn't work. Has moving it around a little been tried?
--
ian