Status aerials

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  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited October 2016 #32

    I'd read that the "woes" of the omnidirectional aerials had been alleviated greatly by the switchover to full digital (increased transmitter powers compared to pre-switchover digital transmissions)

     

    With this in mind, we borrowed a TV from a friend and gave our old (315?) omnidirectional aerial a test near Thirsk at weekend. 

    247 "channels" found (from 2 regions) 

    National channels (BBC2, C4/5, Film 4 etc) were all 90-100% strength and quality on the (on-screen) signal display. 

    Regional channels (BBC1, ITV etc. ) were poor in some cases on the "Yorkshire" variations but fine on the North East regional variation. 

    Our conclusion, stronger transmissions will alleviate any of the reception issues prevelant when the caravan was manufactured 10 years ago (and we could bin the "directional" aerial rattling about in the front locker)

    We don't watch the TV in our 120 nights away except over a few nights at Christmas (sometimes).

    About 6 years ago when I read that the omni directional aerial was useless I did an experiment. I set up the TV on most of the 20 sites visited and found our omnidirectional gave good results and so I suspect that you are correct following change to digital

  • Justus2
    Justus2 Forum Participant Posts: 897
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    edited October 2016 #33

    Hmmmm..... I wish our experience was the same but it isn't. Our Autosleeper has an omnidirectional, a make other than Status which I can't remember at the moment. We've been on 3 sites this year which suggested putting the arial in the vertical plane and pointing it in a particular direction. On those occassions we got nothing where our neighbours had a fairly good signal. I now have a portable satallite system for such occasions. The status directional in my experience is far better than our current omni.

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