Television aerial

Before you go off spending money, try retuning your tv when you arrive on a new site. Digital signal channels differ from region to region, so you need to select retuning from your tv's menu.

On Club sites with poor tv signal there's often an option to connect to a tv socket on the Ehu via a long cable, whch you can buy from reception.

On the contrary, since the end of mainstream analogue transmissions some years ago digital power output was upped significantly.There are wideband aerials, grouped aerials, log periodic aerials, high-gain aerials, grid aerials and even YAGI aerials, but no digital aerials. All aerials are capable of receiving both analogue and digital TV signals.

So as I suggested, the OP's current aerial may not be compatible with the digital signal now used ?

I remember from the switch over many homes had to replace their existing aerial or install additional gizmo's 

Many people were advised to upgrade aerials because of the weaker digital signal originally, but that was to enhance the signal by use of higher gain aerials. As Vulcan states there is no difference between a digital and analogue aerial, only its sensitivity in picking up that signal.

The saucer type was crap whether it was analogue or digital, unless you were close by to the transmitter, purely because it was/is a omni directional aerial.

Please read my previous post again, there is no reason why the OP's aerial should not work subject to the usual constraints and assuming it is not faulty, I am still using my seventeen year old Omni.

As for the domestic Digital switch over, many unscrupulous aerial specialists exploited the ignorance of the public as an excuse to replace a perfectly good aerial.

Remember that an omni-directional antenna is exactly that - omni. So it picks up in all directions more or less equally. Great if the TV transmitter you want is the only signal, but any other intentional signal or interference in the right range of frequencies also is passed down to the booster amplifier and helps to obscure the wanted information.

Somtimes the benefit of a directional antenna is more in what it does not recieve.

There are applications available for smart phones that will show the direction, distance and polarity required for aligning one's antenna correctly. But the reciever still has to be re-tuned to make sense of the output of whatever transmitter one chooses. If one aligns to a different transmitter (even without moving the caravan at all) then one has to retune the reciever.

I've noticed that different transmitters carry a different mix of TV stations, so one can considerably increase the number of possible programmes to argue over.

I contacted Status to check if the 'flying saucer ' would work with the digital signal and was told that it would worked ok also the aerial amplifier. As others have said they are not the best in weaker signal areas!

You are obviously unaware of the mathematics behind the spacing of elements in log periodic aerials (as supplied by many LV manufacturers and sold under the brand name Status). As I said in my first post, a little knowledge can be dangerous. Most certainly, while there are a variety of aerial designs, starting with a coat hanger, there is no effective solution to enhancing reception for specific frequencies in simple antenna. University level study of such designs clarifies this.

We seem to have got carried away with technicalities here, I  am well  aware of the mathematics behind the spacing of elements in aerials, I have manufactured many however, the original post asked if his aerial did not work because it was  old and the simple answer is no because as far as he is concerned there is no difference between analogue and digital aerials.