Posted on 01/08/2022 16:46
Hi All
Recently new to Motor Homing and am at a loss as to how when on site apart from looking at every one else's aerial direction is there a fool proof really cool way to get the right direction first time every time ( trees and buildings excepted of course )
Thanks in advance Ian
Posted on 04/08/2022 21:07
Just be grateful you dont have the Avtex Stick aerial. It is useless in most areas despite the rubbish Avtex came out with when people tried to use it and found it was as useful as a chocolate fire guard.
Now use satellite instead
I know where Id like to stick their rubbish 'aerial' ....
Posted on 04/08/2022 21:07 by TriniJust be grateful you dont have the Avtex Stick aerial. It is useless in most areas despite the rubbish Avtex came out with when people tried to use it and found it was as useful as a chocolate fire guard.
Now use satellite instead
I know where Id like to stick their rubbish 'aerial' ....
Posted on 05/08/2022 08:49
Trini,
I'm guessing you do not mean the Avtex suction coat hanger type aerial I use with ny Avtex TV.
Perhaps I'm lucky, last year we used ours up on the Northumberland coast across to Stirling, and through various locations in Wales, Somerset, Dorset and Devon without a problem. All I did was check and make a note of the transmitter locations and on arrival sucker the thing to the window pointing in that direction.
No apps, no flashing lights. If the signal is there it gets it first time.
I do appreciate if a signal is not there then a dish is the way to go. We used a Snipe 2 when abroad, an excellent bit of kit that punches above it's size, but I've just sold it as it was lying unused.
Colin
Posted on 03/08/2022 22:33 by cyberyachtThe location of the transmitter is irrelevant to me. I have 'Harry Potter's wand' on the roof angled back at about 70 degrees. Any directional adjustment would involve driving in circles. I'm on my fifth stop on this trip and only one has had a viable TV signal.
Posted on 06/08/2022 08:10
We use an Avtex tv and it still has trouble finding stations. A couple of weeks agon we were near Kings Lynn were it 'found' some 16 tv channles all of which were heavily pixellated at various times of the day and it never picked up and BBC stations at all.
We tried it with the fitted booster and without .No change.
We have at times added in another booster finding that can help. We changed the fitted booster buying one from Avtex finding when it arrived it was identical in everyway to the different make already in the van.
Even tried it feeding directly from the aerial to the tv without any improvementand similar performance around many sites.
Not surprising this type of aerial has a short life soon to be replaced with ones fit for purpose
Posted on 06/08/2022 14:42
I found this Ofcom web site which shows the coverage of the UK Freeview transmitters and you will see that alas there is no blanket coverage due to the terrain
Oh dear , Trini, I'm so glad it's a Thursday and not a Sunday 
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