Odd aerial problem

Just before last christmas, I moved house - a house where there is a tv aerial point in two of the bedrooms, and somewhat inevitably in the front room. However, it seems that none of these work. Granted this isnt really that much of a problem, as we have Sky downstairs - and don't really miss TV upstairs, but it would be nice to have it.

Also, I have tried with a indoor aerial with a booster (you know the type; the flat ones with a button a the bottom) - and that doesnt help matters, I also bought a tv coaxial connecting kit - thinking that the tv points in the wall had been wired incorrectly. They weren't - It didnt make a jot of a difference.

I should also note that, I am primarily want aerials upstairs (only really in one of the rooms) for freeview. This would make you think that my area can't get freeview yet (is there anywhere like this still?) - however a check on the freeview site confirms that freeview is available in my area.

I'm baffled.

Should I just phone a tv aerial bloke and get it sorted? - I would've done this to start with, but I wanted to make an effort of doing it myself.

I think you'll be better just hiring someone to do the job if you can afford it. It could just be a poor aerial, for example, in this house there is analogue and Freeview coverage, but indoor aerials are very temperamental and the roof aerial gets nothing where it has rusted over the years.

I thourgh some people Need a NEW aerial becasue of the swicth over or is that Just crap made up by the aerial replacement people

some people do require a new aerial - a wideband one instead of just a one focussed for that region.

to be honest if it's anything like how my house worked when i first moved in it's probably naff coax in the or in the walls somewhere.

although in my case it was naff coax and a very dodgy bit of wiring into the booster.

It all depends on the age of the aerial as weather and other conditions, and whether it's had fat birds sitting on it or not, can take their toll on it...

Also, in some areas they have had to put the multiplexes on UHF channels that are outside the allocated frequency range of the original analogue channels, so people in areas that have had to do this would need what is called a "wideband" aerial in order to pick up all the multiplexes from their local transmitter.

Caradon Hill in Devon is an example... all the analogue channels are in the Group A aerial band, but some of the digital multiplexes are in another aerial band so viewers of that transmitter need to have wideband aerials to receive all the multiplexes.

(Edit: Hyma beat me to it!)

The last time I checked, Caradon Hill was in Cornwall.

D'oh! Of course it is! But it does cover parts of Devon so you can see where i got confuzzled!