Aerial recommendations?

[Great_scot_selfbuild]

Any recommendations for an aerial - looking to fit it at the top of the gable at the rear of the house. 

[Onoff]

One stop shop. Read their excellent guides and unless your sat on a TV transmitter get a band specific aerial rather than wideband. Identify your TV transmitter and go from there. Usually easily enough to figure out, look where the neighbours aerials are pointing towards. Log periodic aerials are nice and compact IF suitable.

 

https://www.aerialsandtv.com/knowledge/planning-your-install

 

I'm in an extreme fringe area so have the biggest Band A Yagi they do. 

[Russdl]

If you want unobtrusive, we’ve got one of these.

 

 

but check it’ll work where you are.
 

We generally get good DTV reception including the HD channels but sometimes the weather does seem to affect it for a few hours. 

[Russdl]

Oh, and as for orientation I searched the web for our nearest transmitter, used Google Earth to get the direction from house to transmitter and then used the compass on my smart phone to align it. 
 

[JohnMo]

I got a local aerial installer, he did his thing it all worked.  Didn't think any deeper than that.

[Square Feet]

Are aerials still a thing? Doesn't everyone just cast their telly these days?

[ToughButterCup]

Free stuff , live stuff @Square Feet

[JohnMo]

1 hour ago, Square Feet said:

Are aerials still a thing? Doesn't everyone just cast their telly these days?

Depends if you want to watch adverts, we record a lot and click forward through the ads.  Online , ITV, C4 and C5 are full of ads, Netflix and Prime aren't much better now

[saveasteading]

2 hours ago, Square Feet said:

Are aerials still a thing? 

Yes and ours comes into its own about 8 days a year when the interweb fails.

It has rotated in the wind to be well off pointing at the transmitter but continues to be good reception: that used to be an issue so either they have turned up the transmitter power or modern tvs can use a poorer signal.

 

 

 

[saveasteading]

12 hours ago, Onoff said:

look where the neighbours aerials are pointing towards.

Google earth will also guide you to the transmitter. However, I found that a tweak to miss a line-of -sight tree helped a lot at the time. Presumably a professional has a machine detecting the strongest signal.

 

Yet now it points about 45° away and works fine.