snowflake25

Hi bubblensqueak! I took up kitesurfing last year and have mostly been to Camber as well as it's so quick to get to from south london. A little further afield but highly recommended is Weymouth Harbour and there's a few good places in West Sussex too. Off for a little bank holiday sesh this weekend, can't wait :)

There does seem to be an old aerial socket on the wall, we've tried connecting to this with a cable and picked up no signal at all. It seems to be an old satellite rather than aerial socket as there the cable disappears into the wall through an old and dusty 'ntl' box. Our landlords live in France and probably won't agree to getting this looked into, especially as it mysteriously did work well before! As I mentioned before, I have no technical knowledge at all... limited to plugging it it, following the instructions and that's it! Thanks for the suggestion of the signal booster - do you know if this will make a noticeable difference? I've read conflicting reports on their efficiency. Would going through a satellite provider like Virgin help?

Hi all, Apologies if this has already been covered anywhere - my housemates and I have been experiencing huge problems with the digital TV reception in our basement flat since our old housemate moved out, taking with the combined DVD player/freeview box. This worked absolutely fine. We replaced this with a Bush mid range freeview box, which picked up about 5 channels and these were all pixellated and constantly on the blink. Thinking it might be the box, we exhanged for a more expensive model - which is no different! I have since been told that it's nothing to do with the box and is more likely the aerial. Unfortunately we have no access to the rooftop aerial (if there even is one) and we have a top of the range indoor aerial. We've tried placing this in several places in the living room (even trying to angle it towards the big mast in crystal palace) but so far, nothing makes any difference. Any advice / tips would be greatly appreciated - does anyone else in basement flats have the same problem? we have resigned ourselves at the moment to three terrestrial channels but as license payers it would be nice to have the full range! Thanks in advance!