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<blockquote data-quote="rolfw" data-source="post: 396489" data-attributes="member: 175057">Can I just add to this regarding aerials.The fact that one person gets away with a 99p cheapo aerial, does not mean that another person will, it is purely down to location and not even general location, it can vary from street to street.As a guide to what aerial you should install, have a look at your neighbours' aerials, particularly the ones which look like they have been recently installed and possibly ask them how well they receive Freeview. If you are near Twickenham (which I presume you mean by TW7) then a relatively small and cheap aerial (possibly loft mounted) may suffice, as you are not that far from Crystal Palace transmitter.They still make grouped aerials, they are not all wideband these days, although the use of grouped aerials now tends to be limited to those installations which need to pull in two different transmitter signals. The term digital or &quot;digital ready&quot; applied to an aerial is not really accurate, only the installation can be called digital ready and that only when set up and tested, a high gain so called &quot;Digital&quot; aerial used in a bad reception area will not necessarily ever produce an adequate digital signal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rolfw, post: 396489, member: 175057"] Can I just add to this regarding aerials. The fact that one person gets away with a 99p cheapo aerial, does not mean that another person will, it is purely down to location and not even general location, it can vary from street to street. As a guide to what aerial you should install, have a look at your neighbours' aerials, particularly the ones which look like they have been recently installed and possibly ask them how well they receive Freeview. If you are near Twickenham (which I presume you mean by TW7) then a relatively small and cheap aerial (possibly loft mounted) may suffice, as you are not that far from Crystal Palace transmitter. They still make grouped aerials, they are not all wideband these days, although the use of grouped aerials now tends to be limited to those installations which need to pull in two different transmitter signals. The term digital or "digital ready" applied to an aerial is not really accurate, only the installation can be called digital ready and that only when set up and tested, a high gain so called "Digital" aerial used in a bad reception area will not necessarily ever produce an adequate digital signal. [/QUOTE]

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