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Cynic wrote:
Depending upon how it is designed it *may* have a higher gain than a
conventional aerial and therefore provide a better picture.

So all those large external aerials are simply unnecessary? ;-)

They certainly may be in some locations. In any case, I don't recall
the exact wording of the advert, but if you have a roof-mounted yagi
in a high signal strength area, you could be over-driving your TV
tuner. Fitting a *lower* gain aerial could in that case improve your
reception.

********. ;-) Far cheaper to simply use a plug in attenuator. A couple of
pounds. Remind me how much this aerial costs?

Besides, regardless of signal strength, you have the problems with
reflections which all internal aerials suffer from.

If they've invented something that works better than conventional
techniques, then the mobile phone chappies would bite their hands off
for it.

Perhaps you haven't noticed, but the aerials on mobile phones have
been getting smaller and smaller until these days they are usually
completely hidden inside the phone. So no way would the mobile phone
people be interested in an aerial as large as the one advertised.

Think you've rather missed the point.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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