Indoor Ariel for freeview box - ADVICE NEEDED

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I know this is a boring question but my boss at work asked me today if i knew if any indoor ariel would enable a freeview box to work once the digital switchover has taken place? He wants to put a freeview box in his kids bedroom and doesnt have an external ariel either on his roof or in his loft, and me having sky multiroom dont really have a clue about freeview or the digital switchover. Can anyone please help, so that i can answer his question???

Kind Regards

Andy

 

[Anonymous]

Most indoor ariels will work with Freeview with varying success. I've used a basic loop ariel and a One For All indoor 'digital' aerial (not amplified) and the One For All one gave slightly better results. From experience getting it near to a window gives you a better picture too.

So basically you can buy fairly cheap indoor arial that can potentially work but results can vary. I often find the sweet spot where I get all the chanels I want and then for no reason I need to reposition everything.

http://www.ricability-digitaltv.org.uk/pages/test-reports/indoor-aerials/recommendations/best-indoor-aerials.htm

You can find some specific recomendations here.

 

[Anonymous]

Great stuff, thanks for your reply and advice ... much appreciated

 

[Dave_]

There is no yes/no answer to this, but as a general rule i'd say no he's not going to get decent result's with an indoor aerial.....unless he's in spitting distance of a transmitter.

But tbh there's lots of thing's to take into account with freeview even using an outdoor aerial to be able to answer that question,

such as what/how powerful is the local transmitter, distance from the transmitter,terrain between transmitter and his location, clear line of site i,e no tall tree's building's that may cause problems etc,etc.etc