Sometimes depends where you are. We go to Norfolk quite often and find we can only get stations using a signal booster. Also Ive an app on my phone called Freepoint UK. just pop in your postcode and it shows you the transmitter direction. Also the boosters are cheap and just plug in
see if your aerial is pointing in the same direction as everybody else. A booster is a good idea and have you retuned the free box for the area you are in ?
I find very often that all the aerials on a site are pointing in the wrong direction. Many local relay stations closed when they went digital yet folks still point their aerials at them.
Look at the digital website to see the direction the transmitter is in. Alternatively, most TVs have a signal strength indication somewhere enabling you to rotate the aerial for the best signal.
I find Freeview reception varies widely, there may be more than one source, buy a signal finder, or a satellite system.The satellites do not move.
There was one in Aldi recentetly for £64.
Problem with Freeview is that many of the low power local transmitter only carry around 12 channels or so, whereas the large regional transmitter carry all 100 or so Freeview channels.
There is no technical reason why all the transmitters can't carry all the Freeview channels, it was for commercial reasons why we have ended up with a two tier Freeview situation in the UK.
When we moved to the house we are in now, our TV aerial was pointing towards the Haslingden transmitter so we only got a handful of channels, simply rotating the aerial by 90 degrees so it now points at the Winter Hill transmitter now gets us all the 100 or so Freeview channels.
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