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With the whole country now Digital .... how effective are these with the Digital TV Signals?

The reason I ask is that I see lots of caravans with an Omni-directional - but having another aerial mounted on a pole in addition ...... which kind of defeats the idea of a built-in aerial.

Anyone with any experience?

Are the Directional Caravan Aerials better?

The reason you see many vans with both (Mine included) is that thousands of caravans were produced with the Status omni directional ariel factory fitted as standard. However, these wer found to be somewhat lacking in performance in anything other than very strong signal areas. Consequently many owners use a Yagi directional which can be turned to focus the available signal. Must say tho, the later directional Status is a vast improvement on the old omni........Mick

Ours is the fixed status aerial (not sure of the model Dohhh) but in almost 5 years we have only had problems at one site and that was Lime tree park n/r Buxton but to be fair we were practically under the viaduct lol other than that we cant moan

                                                     atb Bill

We also have the omni sat factory fitted arial and noticed even in a strong signal area the picture is perfect but since going digital the sound goes out of sync to the picture.So now prefer to use satellite dish whenever possible.

This is what I thought ... that the Omni-Directional aerials of old would be pretty useless.

Buying an older caravan and thinking that the TV will work without faffing about with another aerial would be wrong, then.