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Before we changed our van we had the old 315 (?) aerial and we got good digital pictures in France and parts of Italy. Had not tried it recently in the UK as I generally use satellite.

David (Agde, South of France)

digital signals are only at one third strength i have been informed,i can see no reason why you will not get digital signals after it is all switched on.

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Digital and Analogue reception

buddy the flying saucer picks up a digital signal just as badly as an analouge one, unless the transmitter is in the next field it is pantys. that is what i have found in scotland

nice to see another fleetwood owner on here

Quote: Originally posted by alan126 on 14/9/2009

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buddy the flying saucer picks up a digital signal just as badly as an analouge one, unless the transmitter is in the next field it is pantys. that is what i have found in scotland

nice to see another fleetwood owner on here

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Quote: Originally posted by David Klyne on 14/9/2009

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Before we changed our van we had the old 315 (?) aerial and we got good digital pictures in France and parts of Italy. Had not tried it recently in the UK as I generally use satellite.

David (Agde, South of France)

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Hi David,

look the other way on the nudie beach!

Mr UM

I had the old 315 and changed it for a 530, signal was fine beforehand in Skegness so it's made little or no difference there, testing it on the drive where the signal is very weak, the 530 did really well while the 315 was useless.

So it depends on signal strength, decent signal and you'll get no benefit, fitting though is dead simple. Either fit it in original position, by fitting a blanking plate and drilling a hole through the plate and roof, or use the blanking plate over the original position and fit the 530 somewhere else.

I was tight for space and took a long time getting the position for the 44mm mast hole dead right before drilling, bit scary that? 44mm is a big hole! but once the holes in, it's perhaps 20 minutes to finish off.

Got a good digital signal in Goonhavern near Perrannporth last June/July but that's the only place its worked.

I think a lot of sites are near relay transmitters with vertical polarisation, which the 315 is absolutely useless at picking up, even though they claim it does. A seperate aerial mounted on its edge will pick them up.

Most relay trasnsmitters don't transmit digital and many won't even after swicthover so I dread to think what coverage will be like on remote sites.

When the north west switched over we got a great picture and loads of channels from our flying saucer on most sites in that area. 

Once switched, digital is easier to pick up than analogue was regardless of aerial.

At home we can now get digital from the north west on a set top aerial in the window of north facing rooms - didn't get the old analogue signal good enough to watch anywhere in the house. I just wish the Central would switch sooner so we can have digital in the rest of the house.