Aerial Booster required?

doolz23 · **18th August 2008, 02:01 PM**

Hey
I now have a picture and audio on my media center. Yay for this forum.

Now I am wondering about aerial boosters. When watching TV through MC, the TV signal drops out for a few sec and then re-appears. I am pretty sure that this is a result of my TV signal.

I live in a set of townhouses. In my lot, we have 5 units that share 1 aerial on the roof. I dont think that I can access the aerial to put a booster up there so I was wondering if there is something around that I can plug into my end that bossts the signal. When watching HDTV on my Panasonic Plazma, signal is perfect etc. Maybe this has a little booster in the TV and need something like this in front of my computer?

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do??

DDH · **18th August 2008, 02:14 PM**

If you only have access to inside then to boost your signal you are looking at something like one of these

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView...=&SUBCATID=568

http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.st...uct/View/L4690

doolz23 · **18th August 2008, 02:23 PM**

Cheers

I will pop into Tricky Dicky and grab one.

logifuse · **18th August 2008, 06:42 PM**

Yeah, boosters can be good if your signal isn't quite there, but they can't work miracles. I haven't used the DSE one, but the Kingray (Jaycar) model sorted out my problem where I needed to feed 4 tuners.

They're best used when you need to split signals (where you lose signal strength in a passive split) rather than just boosting the signal, but they sometimes save the day.

Justin