Mike E-W Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 which is the best Aerial so many on the market used Omnimax when I had a caravan with mixed results but they aint cheep .Any advise welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty69 Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 (edited) Log-periodic for me. Assuming tv aerial https://www.aerialsandtv.com/touringaerials.html Edited March 27, 2019 by rusty69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Dog Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 A small log periodic. Get an app for your smartphone to help you know where to point it. While you're at it, get an MHL lead for your phone so you can watch streamed TV when you don't get a signal. This works so well I hardly bother with the aerial now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty69 Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 Just now, Sea Dog said: A small log periodic. Get an app for your smartphone to help you know where to point it. While you're at it, get an MHL lead for your phone so you can watch streamed TV when you don't get a signal. This works so well I hardly bother with the aerial now. Someone on the forum was selling one the other day. The WC perhaps. I find the small log periodic only really works in strong signal areas. The larger one works most places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Dog Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 3 minutes ago, rusty69 said: I find the small log periodic only really works in strong signal areas. The larger one works most places. Of course - the bigger the better, but then it's stowing the thing if you're in the habit of using your boat as a boat. I find the biggest issue is in the cable and connections. Damp is the biggest enemy and it's a creeping one in both senses of the word. It chips away at the signal until every set up becomes a chore, then you get fed up and try to flog the aerial on here! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty69 Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 1 minute ago, Sea Dog said: Of course - the bigger the better, but then it's stowing the thing if you're in the habit of using your boat as a boat. I find the biggest issue is in the cable and connections. Damp is the biggest enemy and it's a creeping one in both senses of the word. It chips away at the signal until every set up becomes a chore, then you get fed up and try to flog the aerial on here! Which is of course a great benefit of the log periodic... It stows flat. Of course in this day and age you could ditch your aerial and stream everything, but to get a good signal may require, erm.... an aerial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 What is there on telly that is worth an aerial spoiling the lines of the boat. Look at the countryside you are in, not the telly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Schweizer Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 Another vote for a small log periodic aerial, but with an optional extended pole for hilly areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete.i Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 Log periodic without a doubt. the countryside gets *&*^%^%^&*^ boring after a while. Having said that there isn't much to see on the telly these days that would warrant spending mega bucks on a tv or an arial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Hooton Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 i have had good results with one of the cheaper Screwfix periodic aerials on a short mast, albeit a taller pole would be better in hilly areas, on the technical side, in order to obtain a clear picture ,it is necessary to persuade other crew members to go aloft in the rain to spin it round while the skipper remains in the warmth of the cabin to shout instructions, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 This one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opener Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 2 minutes ago, David Mack said: This one? Very nice but I bet its a bu@@&r to point in the right direction for the best signal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGoat Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 Log periodics are cheaper on ebay and are of the same quality - if you buy from this outfit (Unispectra) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stealth-DIGITAL-HD-TV-Freeview-LOG-PERIODIC-AERIAL-4G-LTE-Ready-Antenna/150848879726?hash=item231f4b3c6e:g:b6oAAOSwj0NUcMFW for best results you really need an aerial amplifier and a signal meter then it's a doddle. Been there, doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johny London Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 Another vote for the LP. I do see a few of those bulky cross shaped things and they are just too difficult to stow. I have a long extendable pole, and you can rotate it from the bottom so no roof climbing required. As for the aerial app - I do sometimes refer to it, but rather confusingly there are usually many transmitters within range, and the nearest may not be the best, depending on any local obstructions. Don't forget, sometimes a retune of equipment is required, so you may need to point the aerial correctly and retune before you pick anything up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmr Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 We don't have a TV though do download a bit of stuff to watch. We did not have a TV for the last few years of living on the land, so that's well over ten years without one. We go on holiday to Cornwall every January and the flat/house invariably has a huge TV which I watch as its a novelty. TV has gone downhill enormously over those years, its absolutely crap. I think because its a gradual long term decline those who watch it every day do not realise how bad it has got. We watched the snooker, that's about the only thing I could find, even the news is now down marker crap. We then realised that the TV could download stuff so we watched loads of Peaky Blinders, set near Sparkhill where I grew up, lots of boats, and filmed in Liverpool ?. ...............Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGoat Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 Question - Why do so many folks say 'there's nothing to watch' on TV. Most evenings we have several time clashes - so resort to recording items and do watch them later. Dad's army - for the 64th set of repeats - lord knows why University challenge Countryfile Antiques road show Question time That dreadful man late on a Friday evening to see folks dumped off a chair..... Is there something wrong with me? (Don't answer....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pig Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 I find the Omnimax type aerial fine, as long as you use the RF amplifier that comes with it - agreed that on it's own it's cr*p. Also a retune at *every* change of location. For the very few locations where you can't get a usable TV signal, out comes the iPhone and HDMI adapter to watch Netflix./iPlayer etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markinaboat Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 Have had these for some years now and never fail, even in the remotest areas. Can get deals online. https://www.oneforall.co.uk/tv-aerials/sv-9455-amplified-outdoor-tv-aerial#/step-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luggsy Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 This is the best Ariel we have had no matter where we are we get a signal, I also have the L P and the S P but we never bother with them anymore , I also have one of the ultra thin things that they are selling at the moment advertising you can get sky and net flex free this Ariel beats them all hands down https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Best-Caravan-Portable-TV-Antenna-Digital-HD-Freeview-Aerial-Ariel-Indoor-Outdoor/123668458007?epid=2254425967&hash=item1ccb36ea17:g:I68AAOSwGMFcd5~e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmelly Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 39 minutes ago, luggsy said: This is the best Ariel we have had no matter where we are we get a signal, I also have the L P and the S P but we never bother with them anymore , I also have one of the ultra thin things that they are selling at the moment advertising you can get sky and net flex free this Ariel beats them all hands down https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Best-Caravan-Portable-TV-Antenna-Digital-HD-Freeview-Aerial-Ariel-Indoor-Outdoor/123668458007?epid=2254425967&hash=item1ccb36ea17:g:I68AAOSwGMFcd5~e Yep, I have one of those that was even cheaper and it works 99 percent of the time. We also have a small log periodic that was a tenner including coax and postage off ebay that we use and again 99.9 percent of the time a quick twiddle to point and auto retune if needed. The expensive specialist aeirials are a con and the huge aerials I often see are not necessary. In the last 12 months we havnt moored anywhere that we could nt get a signal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuthound Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 4 hours ago, Tonka said: What is there on telly that is worth an aerial spoiling the lines of the boat. Look at the countryside you are in, not the telly What about when it's dark? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Schweizer Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 We must have had a particularly efficient television on Helvetia, as it often needed no aerial for it to work, and most other times a simple magnet based taxi radio aerial on the roof was fine, if that failed the Log Periodic was hoisted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, cuthound said: What about when it's dark? ? Instead of celebrities, look at the stars or go to the pub. There is also wildlife you know that comes out in the dark. Edited March 27, 2019 by Tonka more info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyG Posted March 28, 2019 Report Share Posted March 28, 2019 20 hours ago, cuthound said: What about when it's dark? ? a new sport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGoat Posted March 28, 2019 Report Share Posted March 28, 2019 Folks (seem to) ignore the fact that TV reception depends on where you are moored M'Lud Smelly is on the Oxford canal with a large transmitter that covers most of the canals south of Brum. As you go further North and West ish there's excellent coverage from the Holm Moss transmitter Elsewhere reception can be patchy or non-existent. In those cases you need a dish. Where the boat is moored we're at the end of the Crystal Palace reception area and there's no real signal until you get to the other side of Reading where the Oxford transmitter kicks in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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