Have you noted when it's unwatchable. When I had aerial in the loft I found that rainy days or when the roof was very wet caused viewing problems maybe the rain 'reflected' the signal in some strange way.
Yes - antenna amplifiers do work. We use one with a set-top antenna for a bedroom set. We are in good line of sight to the transmitter via the front bedroom window, but even so, the amplifier definitely helps. We have a splitter on it so that it also feeds a Youview PVR.
There are also switches that can be connected to all 4 outputs of a universal quad LNB, or all 4 outputs of a quatro LNB and the switches have multiple outputs each controlled independently by the receiver its connected to.
This can now be regarded as older technology but a valid way of distributing a satellite signal.
There are also unicable II LNBs with a single output that can be split to 32 individual tuners, either in boxes with multiple tuners or multiple boxes with 1 or 2 tuners. Many satellite boxes now support connection to a unicable LNB.
Sky Q and the new generation of Freesat branded boxes may have limitations using the wideband sky q type LNBs but Freesat channels can be obtained on third party boxes
Distribution these days seems to be also going down the route of having multiple tuners (up to 16) in one receiver and distribution or remote use of these tuners by other boxes via a home network.
That was what I imagined.
Better aerial it is, routing the cable tidily will be a challenge, as ever.
No, i'll keep my eye in.
Interesting, I have built a glass wall in its line of sight, perhaps there's an issue there at times.
Most receivers of all sorts these days have tuners approaching the theoretical best possible. So adding an amp won't usually improve things. Except possibly with an outside aerial where it can overcome cable losses, when fitted to the aerial itself.
By far and away the worst issues I have seen on terrestial digital were from waving trees in wind, especially with wet leaves.
the digital encoding copes well with fixed multipath, but not variable.
I cant recall any issues with satellite
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