I disagree. He wants a wire free solution to send the signals (ie UHF band) from his aerial socket to his TV. No solution has been presented as such transmitters would be illegal and cause interference to neighbours.
Using an indoor TV aerial when a working socket is available would be madness and contrary to the broadcasters recommendations.
While it may not be ideal, I did think about suggesting an indoor aerial. Had I not written War and Peace for
@nabby68 to wade through then I might even have suggested it in the post. As it is, and human nature being what it is, folk tend to switch off once they hear or read that the answer is some form of
No. I don't expect much of what I wrote in that post to sink in for nabby69, but I still remain optimistic.
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Broadcasters recommendations' is an interesting term. In this case the body would be OFcom. There may be something tucked away in some less-visited corner of the web site, but all my searching revealed was a rather limp recommendation to get a wideband aerial where there are reception problems.
Regarding indoor aerials, the results are very site specific. You've only to look at the wide variation is customer reviews on say the Argos site to find some folk waxing lyrical while others consider their purchase an abomination. Same aerial (sorry, arial / ariel /aireel... okay, that last one I made up, but I've read some very creative spelling attempts in the past so this isn't that extreme) but wildly different results.
Those like
@big-all with a room facing the transmitter, and just a short distance from it with close-to direct line of sight will get good results. Hell, at 2 miles from a transmitter, even a lower-powered one like Reigate (2kW), you could get possibly away with attaching a bit of coax to a metal coat hanger and get a signal.
People being what people are though they'll always gravitate to the lowest effort solution. That and big numbers. Some indoor aerial where the metal receiving element is smaller than a Bic biro but it has a whopping high-gain amp wins over some rabbit ears contraption or a mini-me version of an outdoor job. The fact those other aerials don't need as much amp gain because more metal = more signal doesn't compute. The bigger amp wins. The fact that it's amplifying a crappier signal.... pfttt. As Clarkson would say; POWERRRRR!
This is how we've arrived at even more dumbing down with a
miles measurement of reception ability. What was the number, 1600 miles or something? BWHA-HA-HA-HA You're right, curvature of the earth and all.
This is Thornbank offshore windfarm. It's about 19 miles off the Belgian coast, and those turbine blades ain't dipping in the water.
Coming back to this human nature thing, we learn by experience. We can tell people what will and won't work, and we can give them the tools and info so that they can do the 'maths' themselves, but it still won't stop folks ploughing ahead on something even if all the indicators may be negative.
While I'm on a roll, we're not mind readers either.
@nabby68 may well have a flat that's in a strong signal area, and with a room with a window perfect for good reception. IDK because I can't recall seeing anything in the thread that indicates a location and which way the window faces. Sometimes you just have to let folk go find out for themselves. We're still here though for advice however the OP wants to proceed.
