how many regions can you get?

Living in Coventry (Warwickshire), I get Central News East and Central News West as the main channels, because obviously this area is an overlap.



My BBC shows are BBC East Midlands Today, covering Warwickshire and everywhere to the east, and BBC Midlands Today (Birmingham news), covering Warwickshire and everywhere to the Welsh borders (a very long way from Coventry!).



I get a fuzzy Anglia (Sandy Heath) and a bearly-watchable BBC South (Oxford) picture. I can also get a bad Central South picture from Oxford. Plus a fuzzy BBC Look East from Sandy Heath in Bedfordshire.


official regions for my area:

BBC Birmingham
BBC Nottingham
Carlton Central West
Carlton Central East


plus fuzzy pictures on

Carlton Central South
BBC Southampton (transmitter in Oxford)
BBC Norwich (transmitter in Bedfordshire)
Anglia West (transmitter in Bedfordshire)

My normal aerial gives me :

BBC One / Two LDN
Carlton / LWT

Excellent picture from Crystal Palace

BBC One / Two South (Southampton)
Meridian (Newbuty)

Watchable piture from Hannington (and since the launch of LDN I seem to watch more of this...)

With a set-top-aerial and booster upstairs I can sometimes find :

BBC One South (Oxford)

Fuzzily from the Oxford transmitter

Never found Central South from Abingdon, though I suspect I should be able to.


I hope to arrange things so that I can watch Look East (Cambridge) and Anglia News West from Sandy Heath in the future - though if Anglia News West is the chosen region on ITV DSat then I may not bother...

Why is it that people seem to get more regions using indoor aerials + boosters? Using a booster + outdoor aerial in my loft I got nothing except what I should get (BBC 1 London, BBC 2 London, Carlton & LWT, Channel 4 and Channel 5) With a plain indoor aerial I could only get the same aswell. Any tips people?

Don't know really - I suppose it depends on a number of aspects, weather for one. And seeing as you're in London, you could be surrounded by anything blocking the way. Try shoving your ariel on a pole attatched to your roof - maybe that would work!

From georgeous Southend I can get a couple of things -

BBC London (Crystal Palace)
Carlton/LWT (Crystal Palace), plus

BBC East - Look East (East of region)
BBC East - Look East (West of region)
BBC South East - South East Today

Meridian (Maidstone)
Anglia (Norwich, east of region)

I occasionally pick up a Dutch channel with the word Avro in it, if anybody knows any channels by that name

I think you receive BVN TV. It's a channel made by the NOS (Holland) and VRT (Belgium). They broadcast the best programs of the Dutch and Flemish public channels.

It's possible to receive Holland 1 and Holland 2, if you live in the east of the UK.

AVRO is a broadcast organisation in Holland.

(Edited by RtH at 7:30 pm on Oct. 29, 2001)

I live the west of birmingham on quite a large hill, got an indoor arial and cant get nothing but my own region in a good quality picture!, but what could i do to get other regions?
at my old house I could get Central News south brilliant but now cant get it. What can i do?

Buy one of those supa-dupa ariels that spin round like a radar like James Ison's got!

Thanks for the info Roland - still none the wiser, but it's definitely European!

The reason people get more channels by using a set top aerial and a booster, is that it is easier to rotate an indoor aerial to point in the direction of various transmitters, and they are usually a little bit less directional.

Unless your aerial on the roof is on a rotator, it will be very directional, and point at the main transmitter in your area. It is specifically designed NOT to receive other transmitters, as these might interfere with the main broadcasts!

Topic title is 'how many regions can you get?' and my answer is simple: 1 region!

BBC LDN!

Let's face it, who needs South East Today and Look North etc when we can get BBC LDN - the programme with best presentation and news coverage?! I don't see the others going live on radio or online as well as TV!

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How do you get all these reigions.

Max

In the Central Scotland (Scottish) area with good weather in mid-summer, you could receive Grampian for a spell, although it was rather fuzzy most the time, but just for a rare few minutes it came through clear. That despite the annoying Ochil Hills being in the way.

I even managed to receive a good Teletext signal as well with all the North Scotland News, Weather and Sport.

Aparently you can receive Grampian TV as far south as Edinburgh, (in the Oxgangs area near the Pentland Hills) on a good day or a bad one. Not that it gives you any more choice from Scottish, being an SMG clone.

*Said with Dr Evil Voice, 'I call it mini Scottish '*