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We are the same as Josey60.

Same Aerial and same type of Signal Finder.

Some of the repeater transmitters put out a vertical signal, but that aerial is easily set for both horizontal and vertical.

Quote: Originally posted by alpiner on 10/7/2012

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Harrison 1, i am amazed that people will pay all these fancy prices for a (digital)?? TV ariel. look around were you live how many people have these so called fancy digital ariels.
you can buy an ariel from shops like Wilkinsons for about £8, if fixed to a pole will work just as good.
Even if you were in a low signal area you could fit a signal amplifier and the whole lot would still cost you less than £25.

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As the OP has posted his question in the TT/FC section, I would presume that that is the kind of unit that he is using.

Now I don't know about anyone else, but I would be hard pushed to find room in my FC to pack my household Digital TV Aerial.

And anyway, even if I could find a standard TV Aerial that was small enough to fit into an TT/FC locker, the amount of cotton wool and bubble wrap that I would need to keep it safe from getting damaged, would mean that the Missus would have to leave her Kitchen Sink etc at home.

I have been camping rather a long time and I have yet to see anyone using a standard household TV Aerial on a campsite. I guess that others have the same packing problems that I have.

Although we now use the same Aerial that Josey60 has, we only do so because it came as a freeby when we bought the FC.

Up until then we used THIS aerial with our previos units and will continue to have it as a spare.

Because it is has diagonal pick-up, we don't need to bother as to whether the transmitter works on a horizontal or a vertical transmission.

However the one that came with the FC is smaller and easier to store in the lockers as we don't always bother with the TV unless we are staying on a site for longer than 3 days. Otherwise we just use the built in radio.