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What type of aerial are you using?

If on a site where I can see direction others have pointed their aerial and using full-size external aerial I find it is good enough to just point in the general direction they are using even for digital.

If I am using the Status directional aerial or cannot use others for reference I use a digital signal strength finder. Bought mine at Maplins.

What I do is to put the postcode of the site into http://www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tvd.exe?    it then give you a bearing to the nearest transmitter.

When setting up onsite, I use a compass to align the aerial with the bearing.   Dead easy and very accurate.

Quote: Originally posted by huw warrington on 04/4/2011

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What I do is to put the postcode of the site into http://www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tvd.exe?    it then give you a bearing to the nearest transmitter.

When setting up onsite, I use a compass to align the aerial with the bearing.   Dead easy and very accurate.

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http://www.freeview.co.uk/availability

You could use this one which is much easier.

Quote: Originally posted by MickeyM on 04/4/2011

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http://www.freeview.co.uk/availability

You could use this one which is much easier.

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But all it tells you is that you can get freeview it does not tell you where to point the aerial, Wolbane tells you what direction to point the aerial, whether it should be set with horizontal or vertical polarity, how far the transmitter is away and which channels the signal will come in on.