Want to watch the TV in my Bongo when hooked up to electric.

[thewackymonkey]

Hello,
can anybody suggest a suitable way for me to watch my TV in my van. We brought an indoor aerial for £18 & get no signal what so ever when hooked up.
Went to the NEC yesterday Camping & Caravan show & one bloke there tried to get me to purchase a big friggin stand alone satalite dish for 180 pounds, horrible thing it was
If anyone out there has been sucessful could you please pass any info on to me make, model etc
thanks & reguards TWM.

[Baz and Helen]

Hi we have a avetex digital aerial which was recommenedby the good people on this forum. We allways get good signal no matter where we have been. I think its about £38.00 worth every penny. regards Baz and Helen

[thewackymonkey]

Hello both, thank you so much

[winchman]

Its worth a quick google of the area you are going to so you have some idea which way to pointy the aeriel, I had a £50 satelite dish with reciever from Aldi when we had the caravan it was very good as some of the sites we went to had little or no tv reception due to the location, hills woods etc, but as long as the dish could see the sky it worked

[winchman]

Its worth a quick google of the area you are going to so you have some idea which way to pointy the aeriel, I had a £50 satelite dish with reciever from Aldi when we had the caravan it was very good as some of the sites we went to had little or no tv reception due to the location, hills woods etc, but as long as the dish could see the sky it worked

[Gasy]

I have a 12v free view tv which we use in our caravan ( which just has a normal caravan aerial looks like a flying saucer spaceship )not a digital aerial.
And we have always got a signal all over the country
Cheers

[Simon Jones]

This is the Avtex aerial a lot of us use: http://www.avtex.co.uk/antenna/sth1000.html

Bear in mind, a lot of campsites tend to be in remote / sheltered locations, so you are going to struggle in poor reception areas.

[the1andonly]

Have used a satalite dish but poor reception in bad weather but good signal with my amplified ariel (unknown brand) £2 from a boot sale. if used indoors don't put up window insulation (Metal foil type).
yes be aware where you camp, this year at foot of Cadair Idris no wavey things in the air at all (of any strength)(only in the stream) Had to drive 3 miles to get a mobile signal. Camping as it used to be no lecy no toilets but free firewood for your camp fire. Expensive at £5 a unit per night!!

[blobber]

You could also try the Magmount digital arial from Maplins, about £14, quite a few of us use them.

[Alison01326]

We've got an indoor aerial with booster which runs on either 12v or mains and it has been fine on the rare occasions we have used it ..... except when when we were at Princetown almost at the foot of the North Hessary Tor transmitter. Apparently we were too close

It came from Asda, and although it doesn't appear that they sell them any more, but it looks like this one.

Is yours faulty, perhaps?

[mikeWalsall]

yes be aware where you camp, this year at foot of Cadair Idris no wavey things in the air at all (of any strength)(only in the stream) Had to drive 3 miles to get a mobile signal. Camping as it used to be no lecy no toilets but free firewood for your camp fire. Expensive at £5 a unit per night!!

Hummm .. camping on the Cader Idris ...

Did you wake up as a madman ..... or a poet...???

[thewackymonkey]

Many thanks for all of your comments, very helpful.

Happy camping folks

[the1andonly]

I did think we could hear the howling of dogs Cŵn Annwn. but looked up and there was a chinook (what are they doing there) then 15m later after it left a yellow rescue jobby circling around the field looking to land then went to next field. 3 rescues that night.

I have been accussed of being mad before (still bought the Bongo) but a verse springs to mind
y gwr du i ragolwg gan Sarnicol
the pessimist by Sarnicol