We're moving into a new house next week in Kelburn, Wellington (in Mariri Road).

The current owners have had Sky with a satellite dish, but since we've just received a free Tivo thanks to Telecom, it would be nice to get terrestrial if possible. There are a couple of old aerials on the house roof pointing down the valley towards the harbour, but the current owners haven't used them and weren't even sure whether they were still connected to anything.

The Freeview website shows our address as "unlikely" for UHF reception, but shows the neighbours across the road (on the uphill side) as "likely with high aerial".

Looking at Google Earth, I think there's the top of a hill between us and Fitzherbert transmitter, but I wonder whether anyone here has managed a reliable Freeview signal without direct line-of-sight (perhaps with a phased-array aerial).

Do you think it will be worthwhile to pay someone to come out with a signal meter and take a look, or is any signal we do get is going to be so unreliable that we're better off just sticking to satellite freeview and chucking the Tivo on trademe.

Thanks in advance,

Mark