SLx 27884D 48 Element Digital TV Aerial

D. G. Myhill

at 3:22 pm

I’ve installed this up in my loft as a replacement for my previous old school aerial (which was also in the loft). Before, I found that several freeview channels had weak reception, and would drop out or freeze. Also, ITV had recently degraded on the ordinary terrestrial reception for some reason.

This aerial has rectified both problems, so it’s been well worth the outlay. It’s simple to put together, with clear instructions.

Rating: 5 / 5

Mr. PR JOHNSON

at 7:33 pm

We moved to a new home recently and the TV reception here is terrible. The town is in the base of the Lincolnshire Wolds and theres a few forests between our house and the transmitter. The aerial we had up couldnt recieive 75% of the digital channels at all, as in the signal meter was at 0 for channels 30, 48, and 60 leaving just 10 picture channels and 5 radio channels to watch and listen to.

I bought this aerial to replace the existing one and now we get every single channel available on the Belmont transmitter, even channel 60 is picked up and thats the one most folk seem to have trouble with in this area. All the channels have 100% signal strength except Five USA, Five, Fiver and a few others on channel 60 they have to make do with 80% signal. This aerial is a little on the big size, but I have mine on a 1″ alloy pole and mounted on my wall. Make sure the centre of gravity of the aerial is above the pole or it does tend to sway a lot in high wind.

Great piece of kit and well worth the money.
Rating: 5 / 5

Groovy Grampy

at 9:20 pm

Before purchasing this aerial we were getting breakup of picture from existing loft aerial, especially in stormy weather (bungalow is surrounded by tall trees and we are 25 miles from Mendip transmitter) even though I was using a signal amplifier. Putting in this aerial in conjunction with a new amplifier (Philex SLx 4-way SLx 4 Way Aerial Amplifier with Digtial By-Pass) improved most stations, but could not get a few of the less used channels. By utilising second input on Philex amplifier for old loft aerial and running 2 aerials in parallel, I now have perfect picture on all channels (some 90+ stations found). Waiting for next sou’westerly storm now to see if this system still copes. Only four stars as construction a bit fiddly for a 76 yr old with B.E.T. (Benign essential tremor).
Rating: 4 / 5