Being a Virgin cabled customer, I've not had any call to use the RF feed to the telly for years. However, finally gave in to sprogs pestering to get his TV working, and rewired the feed to his room. Our antennae is set to point to a relay station about 2Km away, and I haven't repointed it. We're now getting (according to the TV) a 50% signal strength on most channels. The picture quality seems fine, and sound is OK too. But the strange thing is his TV manages to pick up "Dave", whereas our main one goes from Channel 16 to 23, no Dave. I returned it 3 times, but it can't find channel 19.
I'm not to fussed - main TV has the V+ box, and sprog can get Dave, which is one of his favourite channels, so it's a non-issue, but I'm curious.
Also, is 50% a bad strength ? Clearly the TV is happy with it, but what sort of threshold are we working within ? Presumably 50% is not good enough for any HD channels ?