Fitting aerial inside

[trevorbayliss]

The loft space is an actual flat !!

The space for the aerial is off to the right and will house the boiler, wash machine and fuse board. Prob not the aerial

 

[Lucid]

I have my aerial in the loft and I am about thirty miles from tacolneston transmitter

I don't think anyone is suggesting loft aerials can't be installed if they have to be. Just that 'YMMV' is the watch phrase.

FWIW, given the option of taking the quick fix of a loft installation, but then knowing I'd be leaving the customer with sub-optimal signal quality versus the extra work dragging out the ladders to do it properly... well, it's ladders for me.

(Makes a change from curtains LOL)

 

[RandomGrinch]

it's ladders for me.
(Makes a change from curtains LOL)

I was going to make a joke about an Emu, but that would have been in very poor taste!

 

[Lucid]

I was going to make a joke about an Emu, but that would have been in very poor taste!

Well, at least poor Rod died like a playboy; taking a bird out on the tiles.

(I'll get my coat )

 

[ericmark]

I was living in a flat, and wanted to put up an aerial, I found a length of 300Ω ribbon cable cut to form a slim jim and stuck to the window with sellotape was good enough to reach local repeater and play packet radio with 5 watt transmit power. (VR2ZEP)

OK there were 40 floors and I was on the 35th, so no way I could have run a cable to roof, and at that height good take off.

But some times we over think what is required, last house aerial was around 10 foot high on side of garage, it actually worked better low down, as line of sight to Moel-y-parc, but house shielded it from Winter Hill, so it stopped the TV trying to continually re-tune its self.

And on the Falklands I found myself living in a container, a really good faraday cage, and I was using a single long wire, all theory said it should not have worked, but I was talking to locals some 20 miles away without a problem. (VP8BKM)

In other words, suck it and see.

 

[old duffer]

I think metalwork and copper pipes are more of a problem.

You can look up the compass bearing to your best transmitter and start by positioning your aerial on that.
This one I think http://81.133.43.140/cgi-bin/tvd.exe?

Mine is on a board and I have chalk marks in case it gets knocked.

(see posts by @Lucid in threads such as
https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/compass-reference.543248/

can you explain why you think this!...