Recommend indoor TV aerial for portable TV

culabula88

Can somebody recommend a good TV aerial for a portable TV please. I want to pick up RTE1 and 2, TG4 and TV3. I am also receiving bbc1 & , utv and channel4 from a deflector system so I want to pick these up as well.

Should i get a booster also for the signal?

watty

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055327458

Boosters usually make picture worse. Amps are really for the loss of long down lead from Chimney to TV.

One in attic on an Attic aerial (the one listed or a full size outdoor aerial in attic) about 1.2m/4ft behind it can help. Not much good at TV.

The answer was at top ot the Forum page

BTW the "deflectors" are due to be turned off as DTT is now rolling out.

All the UK channels are available at much better quality, free via a 60cm satellite Dish & Receiver (From €65 ex-install, DIY is possible and it can even sit near ground level, no long ladders needed, just a view of Sky 20 degree elevation approx, to South East.).

gzoladz

Actually I am on the market for the same. I can see the 4 irish channels using the little supplied aerial with the dvb tv tunner but I have to stick it on the outside of the window.
Alternatively, I can stick it on the inside (some winter-relationship related issues in there), but for that I am using a 20 db amplifier and a longer coaxil cable (which offsets the gain of the amplifier).

Watty, according to your experience, if I replace the 20db amplifier and the little antenna for a bigger 45db amplified indoor antenna, should this suffice?

Kidenst regards,
Gustavo

watty

More aerial and less amplifier. Otherwise you just amplifiy noise and strong signals distort the weak TV signals.

20dB allows a distance of over 220 ft / 70m using cheap coax. CT100/PF100 etc slightly better.

The indoor yagi in the photo gives about 12dB more gain than a simple vertical mag-mount wire supplied with some DVB-t tuners.

culabula88

Thanks for the replies. I got the portable TV and the aerial but the reception is poor.
I have a good TV reception from an aerial on the roof of the house but this connection is to our main TV and I dont have other aerial sockets in the rest of the house for the portable TV. Could I use a TV or video sender like the one here to send the good signal from the sitting room around the rest of the house or how would that work?
Would I have to watch the same channel as the person in the sitting room
http://www.argos.ie/static/Browse/ID69/10391954/c_1/1|category_root|Home+entertainment+and+sat+nav|10391911/c_2/2|cat_10391911|Electrical+accessories|10391935/c_3/3|cat_10391935|TV+and+video+senders|10391954.htm

watty

Video senders only send VIDEO. They take a composite video via SCART or phono/RCA plug, the aerial signal is Modulated Video with multiple channels, and each channel has 4 carriers.

So yes, the video sender only lets you watch same channel, and only if TV has a Video OUT.

You can use a splitter/amp in the attic or at TV, but you need RF coax cable to other TVs.

malachy47

I'm thinking of buying a video sender from the U.K. The particular one I'm looking at states it will NOT work for Sky or Telewest boxes. Given that I have a UPC Thomson PVR what do you reckon my chances are that it will work on this side of the pond?

Thanks as ever,

Tom