On board TV Reception

[DIW]

Advise please on best TV aerial for on board use. Fed up with careering round with Indoor type aerial held aloft looking like a demented Reindeer and missing all the important bits on Corrie!

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[paulineb]

sky ! with portable mini dish

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[markc]

Disagree with paulineb (OK if you never go anywhere!) cause you keep having to move dish and its a pain when it's chucking it down or freezing cold. I changed to a new Glomex ariel and a Freeview set top box - £99 from Comet for the box. Works perfectly and all chans are free. Plus you get great selection of digital radio too. Some Freeview boxes require your TV to have a scart socket so check if your boat TV has one before buying.

M


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[Guest]

Looked at one of these digi boxes £99.00 the weekend at Brighton. works through normal aerial this one was a Daewoo , great reception will probably get one,got loads of channels no dish no subscriptions. I have glomex booster aerial a bit hit & miss depending where you are but always get a picture and on my home berth I get great picture.

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[Trevethan]

I just fitted one of those TV antanna saucers.. not impressed at all. Picture is ghostly, fuzzy and fades. Then the booster went pop.

Then tried a set top booster.. better, but picture buggers up when I move round the boat. Then bought a standalone booster, plugged mast top antenna cable into iyt and the picture is better.. still not great. People in next boat have a wirew loop and a great picture.... Wonder if itsw teh TV.. (Its one of those computer card jobbies) Might drag a vcr along one day and see if that works better.
regards,

Nick

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[stefan]

Last summer I installed a Naval Mk ll. Its the best I have tried
so far, better than Glomex and many others. See this site: http://www.naval.com/m20.htm
The manufacturer sell a transformer giving the 15 V that is
specified. It is very expensive though, and I have been satisfied with the 13,8 V a standard antenna amplifier give.
I installed it high, on a pole higher than the radar scanner
on the arch. Funny that no boating magazine touch this issue that interests everyone!

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[DPH]

I thought about getting a Freeview set top box last week but the man in Comet said that freeview didn't work well in the channel. Something about interference caused by French TV resulting in ghosting.

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[EME]

Don\'t understand

We use both Sky ( Digibox) and Freeview ( Pace box) with absolutely no problem in France albeit neither in marine environment. No problems with ghosting from french services ( received on same set).

But then both taken via satellite..am I confused?

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[markc]

Re: Don\'t understand

yes - you are a bit confused - Freeview boxes work through a regular ariel and not Sat. But I don't understand the ghosting issue either. With a digi pic it either works or not, unlike an analogue signal

M

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[burgundyben]

I\'m a luddite.

I always seem to be about the last person to know whats going on, so let me get this straight, freeview thing, I pay 99 quid for a box, plug it in to the telly and I get a load of extra channels with nothing more to pay? are the channels any good?

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[BrendanS]

Re: I\'m a luddite.

Got it!

Channels are quite good.....<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.freeview.co.uk>http://www.freeview.co.uk</A>


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[John_d_Smith]

Try a Status TV Aerial. I have had three other makes and none come close, Their about £80 from most caravan shops.

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[John_d_Smith]

Re: Don\'t understand

Where in France, I understand the further south the bigger the dish required.

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[Guest]

Re: I\'m a luddite.

The channels you get from memory are your regular 4 t.v. channels. + ch 5 BBC3 BBC news 24 ITV2 Sky travel/News Sports news History channel QVC and a few others. No Films or Sky sports .

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[markc]

Re: I\'m a luddite.

well worth it - all the regular stuff plus about 20 other chans and things like BBC3 ITV2 etc.

M

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[stefan_r]

portable dishes

how do you align this....I've got the dish but can never get a signal working...I have a detector thingy which hums and lights up but I can never get a picture.

I am getting the TV listings up but whenever I select a channel it waits and then says no signal being received.

The indicator on the digibox says signal about 50% and quality 25%...

Really frustrating as Burnham has crap reception on terrestrial TV.

Cheers
Stefan

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[EME]

Re: Don\'t understand

You're absolutely right.

Everything revceived perfectly in South EXCEPT ITV with small dish. However with a bigger dish you get that as well. This week a problem with Sky News , would appear to be same problem, with BBC going over to same / similar service as ITV then we will be getting larger dish but we are still talking normal household size, not Joddrell BanK cast-offs.

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[Trevethan]

Re: I\'m a luddite.

Bought a freeview box tthis weekend. £69.99 and I am amazed. The picture has gone from fuzzy ghosted rubbish to sharp and clear.

We had some teething problems... it didn't like the TV computer card so I went and bought a portable TV too, but it aqll works a treat in Limehouse. It doesn't even need the 12 volt booster.

It occassionaly freezes when the wind gets up and we start to rock about a bit, or when the dehumidifier turns itself off and on, but nothing bad.. and a still quiet picture ios much less annoying than all that white noise we used gto get each time a DLR train went past.

Plus lots of OK channels.. best is the oneword radio station... a bit like book at bedtime on radio four, except all day. Very impressed.

Widfe bemoans lack of E4 and therefore new series of ER, but that's about it on the negative side.

Watchhed Galley LSave yesterday... got quite excited at trailer.. a show about cooking on 31 ft boat on cruise in Med... however seemed like it was more about girlie presenter scamming drinks off people and getting chefs to clean squid for her.. pictures of cooking inside boat lasted 30 seconds.. then more sitting in cockpit saying how great life was.

Would rather se said girlie cooking meal for six using more traditionql yachty fayre.. pot noodle, corned beef and very dodgy looking veg that has been in locker 2 weeks too long on 2 burners as boat heaves and pitches...





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[terryw]

Following the recommendations in this thread regarding freeview I bought a box last week to try. When I got to the boat last friday evening I connected it up, and 5 minutes later over 60 channels of TV, Radio, and Teletext. Picture fantastic, no snow effect.
If you are moored in a freeview area I would say Get one.
Prices in Currys have been reduced, with some as low as £60. I bought the incredibly tiny Grundig for £100, and do not regret a single penny.

Terry

PS Reception in Poole was terrible. 4 dodgy TV channels which kept breaking up.

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