Downgrading Aerials Following Recent Satellite FTA

mickeyboymel

In light of the recently FTA move by Channel 4 as well as all the many extra variants of all the UK channels freely available,I have decided to abandon my efforts to ever achieve stable Freeview from Brougher Mountain,and to use satellite rather than analog for BBC,ITV & Channel 4.

I want to remove the 100 element Group A areial and replace it with something less obtrusive,with a view to receiving just the RTE, or free Digital Terrestrial channels in future.

To date I have the digital tests from Three Rock & Claremont Carn without any great difficulty,or indeed without correctly grouped or aligned aerial types. The quality perfect when compared to weakish analog from the same transmitters at my location. I presume the digital signal will travel better than the analog ever did.

As we are in a "Blackspot" here in Delvin with regard to getting analog pictures from our local transmitter (Cairn Hill) would it be in anyway safe to presume that the digital,whenever it comes about,may be easier to receive,and therefore should I buy a small aerial suitable for the local transmitter, or a larger (perhaps 52 element) one trained at either Three Rock or Claremont.

The fact that an incorrect Band B small (10 element) can recieve Claremont at the moment, I'm thinking if I replaced this with a similar size correctly grouped (E) and just removed the large 100 element,I would be future proofed,as this could be retrained on Cairn Hill at a later stage,should reception of future digital broadcasts be more achievable than the current analog.

Any thoughts?

watty

Till analogue is turned off entirely the Digital signals are likely to be lower power.

We will know more maybe in the Autumn.