Hi folks,
I'm in Kapiti (Te Horo Beach) in a new home and am unable to receive any Freeview channels using my roof-mounted aerial. Perhaps surprisingly we can however receive all Freeview channels using an indoor, powered set-top antenna, but I would like to be able to use the roof-aerial and move away from a powered, indoor unit.
The receiver is a new Akai AD185X HD DTV receiver which as I say, works A-OK with the indoor antenna. The external antenna is a 32 element UHF aerial roof-mounted on a pole about 4.5m off the ground and pointing approximately due south. It works for analogue when I bypass the receiver and can receive some (somewhat fuzzy TV1,TV2) analogue broadcasts.
I'm aiming to get DTV broadcasts from either Ngarara (in Waikanae) or KauKau/Fitzherbert (in Wgtn). According to the Lincrad transmitter-sites map, each of these sites transmit DTV. I have tried my aerial horizontally (to match Fitzherbert) and also vertically (Ngarara/KauKau) and my receiver when tuning still says "No signal".
Here is a pic of my aerial setup (horizontally when pic was taken) if it helps any.
There are a row of trees about 1km south in line of sight of, and taller than my aerial, but then all my neighbours who have UHF antenna, also point theirs in the same direction - maybe they only receive analogue UHF signals through them?
Unfortunately, where the aerial pole is located, I cannot point the antenna north to palmy for example as the apex of the roof in that direction is slightly higher than the height of the pole :-(
Does anyone have any ideas of what to try next? Is my UHF antenna even "good" enough for Freeview?
Many thanks for your time,
Russell