SLx 27895K4 Outdoor Aerial, Digidome For TV Digital Freeview
SLx 27895K4 Outdoor Aerial, Digidome For TV Digital Freeview HD 360° Omni Directional Amplified Antenna with Integrated 4G Filter and Full Installation Kit,White
| Dimensions: | 16.6 x 24.8 x 26.6 cm; 99.99 Grams |
| Model: | 27895K4 |
| Manufacture: | Philex Electronic Ltd |
| Dimensions: | 16.6 x 24.8 x 26.6 cm; 99.99 Grams |
| Origin: | China |
Purchased to replace a storm damaged 10ft outdoor aerial . Installed internally in the loft and is working well. A lot of money and time saved Easily installed by an amateur no need for a technician . Prompt delivery
Purchased as a Freeview back up to my Freesat dish when it tends to pixel in bad weather. So far has coped with all the weather can throw at it, and the TV tuned into 166 channels! Multi directional, so easy to find the transmitter with it.
Bought to replace an old huge aerial that had gradually lost effectiveness. Fitted in a loft. Easy to install. Plug and play. Retuned my boxes and hey presto we have great TV receptio
Dear Sir/Madam So sorry for the delay I fitted the Aerial in my loft as it was knot possible to fit on the outside of the house it is working perfect many thanks on a top product. MB
It’s just as good as a roof aerial and saved me a lot of money , i have it discretly in the living room where you can’t see it and it works perfectly , very pleased with it !
Make sure you mount it high enough! Use a pole for extension if necessary (it makes a big difference). I live near Kilrea in N. Ireland and pointed it at the Divis transmitter in Belfast, nearly 50miles away. Gets everything transmitted, though I lose some channels in bad weather.
Had an old aerial which struggled to pick up most, if any channels even with a signal booster. I purchased this after seeing the good reviews and I have to say it’s absolutely spot on. I pick up every single channel no problem and even get BBC 1 East Midlands instead of west midlands now (even though I live in derby which was strange!). Easy to install with one cable outside and is plugged straight into the wall. Very happy indeed
This product arrived the next day! Brilliant fast delivery.
Very well packaged
My hubby wanted to install on the outside of our building but i informed him that a lot of reviews stated that they had installed in the attic.
So to test, we attachedcthe aerial to the TV and plugged in the booster and with the aerial just sitting on the settee we had a brilliant picture. So we wired into the loft and the picture is amazing.
The video is when i had just finished scanning for the channels.
So 5 stars for this aerial! Thank you!
A great product.
I had two huge old fashioned aerials installed in the loft which took up a lot of space. I was somewhat sceptical when i received the item as it’s tiny and i was installing in the loft.
Anyway, very simple to install and within minutes had the direction sorted. It found 167 channels !! and the picture quality is very good. I’ve mounted in the very top of the loft and it’s great as it’s tucked away very neatly.
The aerial comes with a booster that you need to plug in but i found that i didn’t even need to plug the booster in – still getting all channels perfectly without it being turnt on!!
So, a great purchase for me and has really neatened the loft space up. Nice and compact but great performance. Really chuffed with this.
Suffering from regular signal dropout, I tried filters, attuators and amplifiers on the old normal chimney mounted aerial, although signal strength was good. I mocked the kit up in the living room, instant improvement! I installed it properly in the loft in one morning, the biggest problem routeing the co-ax through ceilings and floors! I connected the the power supply through a automatic switching socket so it’s only powered when the TV is on. Next I’ll to see if I can set it up to distribute the signal around all the bedrooms. Overall impressed with the product, not so much the way it was packaged.
I was very sceptical about the claims made with this piece of kit, I mean, why would something so small be as good as my digital aerial, which was already giving me a good reception (3 – 4) lights on my signal meter, and my only reason for change was to stop birds perching on it and crapping all over my newly laid drive.
So, ladders out and I got to work fitting this unit as high as I could on a gable end. It took me around an hour to complete the job which involved routing new CT100 coax into my roof space to connect to my existing cabling. Tuning was easy using my iPhone compass to locate my nearest transmitter which is 62km away.
The signal wasn’t good, it was far better than the old aerial and was now showing a steady 5 lights on my meter. Having had it installed now for around a month, very few signal dropouts have occurred and my 4k tv is producing excellent performance. I also have a second HDTV connected to the same aerial producing equally good pictures.
I highly recommend this product. I was quoted 180 to fit a new aerial. I did this myself for 40 including the new cabling.
This is advertised as an outdoor aerial, but for me it works perfectly well indoors, fitted in my loft. Our nearest TV transmitter turned out to be less than 10 miles from the house ‘as the crow flies’, so I can’t comment on situations where your nearest transmitter is much further away.
Please be aware that in addition to this set you will need an additional short cable, or ‘fly lead’ to connect your TV to the signal booster. People who answered questions from potential buyers saying no other materials are needed are wrong. In my set-up I needed a few other items, all of which were easily and cheaply available from nearby trade-counters.
I’ll share some details of the steps I took to get this working, in case it’s helpful to someone. First I checked online where my nearest TV transmitter is, so I could fit the aerial on that side of the house in the loft. Fitting it inside was much easier for me and it won’t be exposed to the elements. Measuring the distance on Google maps from the transmitter to my house not only showed me the distance, but also the direction in which the aerial needed to point. I screwed an offcut of plywood big enough for the bracket to a beam and screwed the aerial to it. I was fortunate to know there’s a waste pipe running through our loft and down to underneath our house, which is boxed in in the bathroom and kitchen. I dropped a piece of string with a heavy metal nut tied to the end next to the pipe, all the way down. I had to create a hatch in the downstairs floor by cutting the floorboards, to create access to underneath the house. There I retrieved the string, tied the aerial cable included in the kit to it, added some tape so it would stay put, then pulled the cable up into the loft, where I connected it to the aerial (see first photo). Back underneath the house I attached the cable to a splitter suitable for Freeview and satellite, and screwed it to one of the floor beams (second photo). Next I connected two cables bought separately, each 5 meter long, to connect two televisions to. In our main living area I was able to cut the plasterboard and fit a satellite wall socket (showing in third photo). One of the cables is connected to this, while in another room I have the other cable popping up through a hole in the floorboards, and straight into the TV (fourth photo). In the main living area, the signal booster is plugged into the wall socket, and the ‘fly lead’ (bought separately) is going into a Humax Freeview recorder, which in turn is connected to the TV (fifth photo).
So far it all works really well for us. We don’t get some channels anymore which we used to get through Virgin Media, but we’re saving around 40 pound per month. We also have the TV connected to the Broadband router, and watch BBC iPlayer, Netflix, Rakuten, ITV, Channel4, etc etc straight through the TV.
Hope this helps; any questions please ask.
Was going to buy two of these dome tv aerial but seen the reviews of some buyer’s & only got the one BUT will order another, opened box to see a power supply is needed this is not in listing !! Got instructions to see about where power went to ,it’s like a db gain box so goes inline from back of TV but sends power up to dome aerial & a red light on bottom of dome aerial comes on ,low amp & voltage 12volt , as the local flying rodents broke my two aerials need to get upstairs bedrooms TV working again so as a quick fix put this domed aerial high in roof on apex, did connect it to a multi aerial splitter box for 3 bedrooms & tried & got main bedroom tv working great 70% signal but other two bedrooms it was a poor signal ,so just ran main bedroom signal 76% ,the power box was & is up in roof & it was giving signal to all 3 TV’s, have got good signals for all freeview channels plus all the main bbc itv ch 4 ch 5 etc , WILL BE BUYING ANOTHER ONE OF THESE , easy to get up & running 2 wood screws for aerial bracket put dome aerial on top point the arrow on aerial about where old aerial was pointed put inline power box on put tv on retune tv did not bother to move dome for fine tune
We decided after 10+ years of not having access to terrestrial TV channels to install an external TV aerial, but we didn’t want the expense of a 200+ rooftop installation. We originally ditched the rooftop aerial we inherited not long after moving in, as the signal was patchy (live in a dip) and most of our neighbours ditched theirs long ago and subscribe to Sky (see my neighbours dish in supplied photo).
After reading many reviews on Amazon about indoor aerials and how their performance had improved, my curiosity was piqued. I remained unconvinced that an indoor aerial would work for us due to the distance between us and the Oxford transmitter (the closet one with full freeview channel package). Then I stumbled across this curious looking object and investigated further. With its British design, comprehensive kit of parts and low price we decided to take a gamble.
I’m no expert DIYer but my wife and I (me up the ladder with a drill and Mrs Smeg working at ground level checking TV signal quality), managed to get this installed without any issues about 3wks ago and we now have access to full freeview channel package. Alignment was a lot easier than we expected too; with me up the ladder, Mrs Smeg used her eye to align the black arrow marks on head of aerial to the direction of the rooftop aerials of our neighbours and I adjusted left/right as necessary and job done.
Kit includes 10M of coaxial cable, all aerial cable connectors, power supply, wall fixing and plugs, cable clips. We installed in about 2/3 hrs including tidying cable runs in/out.
I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending this product.
This is a great, seemingly professional antenna that has brought us back TV since moving to a new place with no antenna.
A few things you need to know:
– It needs to be powered by mains, close to your TV, as the actual ‘flylead’ cable (which is not included) goes from the mains power forking to the tv, and the other cable then goes to the antenna.
– you will need to wire the ‘coaxial’ cable yourself, as in strip the ends and screw on the metal bits. This was a bit difficult for someone that hasn’t done wiring before, and while the diagram in the setup booklet was helpful, some real pictures or a link to an online video by the company wouldvet been a lot better. The rest of the setup is pretty easy.
– you dont *have* to screw it into a wall outside. mine’s sitting on a bookshelf. This depends on where you live obviously and what mileage you really need out of the thing. We live in a city and so could’ve probably bought a basic indoors aerial, but this thing has future potential too.
– you need a spanner sort of. I ended up tighetning eith my hands and the help of some other tools as no spanners on me, but you’ll be okay either way.
Overall it’s great!
I had my doubts whether this would work for me as live in a bungalow in a very blustery coastal part of North Wales, I had a maximum gain traditional Aerial fitted on a pole and was constantly terrified during high winds that the aerial was going to come through my conservatory roof which was directly below, anyway the signal was poor and kept dropping out and pixelating even with a 3 way booster, so I fitted this on my fascia board outside, run to a 5 way splitter in the loft to feed 5no tv’s, in well I can’t believe the difference it’s picked up over 200 stations (Inc radio) had about 60 total before brilliant piece of kit this all the tvs have 100% signal well chuffed, have ordered another for my neighbour as she wants to get rid of 2 old Aerials on her roof. I didn’t use the coax cable supplied looked a bit cheap so used my own cable. Note you must retune your TV when connecting the TV to the new Aerial. It’s also needs a three pin power point for the adaptor (luckily I already have one in the loft).I would definitely recommend this Aerial. One note of warning if you already have a signal booster fitted (I had a six way) dont reconnect it as won’t work, just get a standard signal splitter, as stated I have 5 TVs connected no problems. ** Update after 3 months use I was getting intermittent pixilation and sound break up on my main TV, after checking the aeriel strength I found it was actually too strong (93db) which was overloading the inbuilt you view decoder sent for a 6db Attenuator to reduce will try this.
I installed it in the loft and didn’t want the usual design as I would no doubt bump in to it and damage it and/or myself one day. I was sceptical of the new design. Unconventional, but works.
1) There are 2 arrows, either can point to the transmitter and it works.
2) You can turn off the power amplifier and it will still work. If you are missing channels you like then you’ll have to use it. Somebody wrote in another review about the longevity being linked to the amplifier but it has no basis and you can swap it for another signal splitter/booster or not use it at all.
3) The 3 nuts go inside the slots on the base and then the screws go through them to tightened up against the wall bracket.
4) The 4 washers provided are probably for the fixing screws to the masonry wall.
5) This has the 4G feature, which now they have changed the transmitters you are probably going to need otherwise a few channels will be missing without this feature.
As said previously it will work with no power supply but the 4G feature will not. I scanned all channels with it switched off and a few were missing so I turned it on and re-scanned and this time they were back. If I turn the amp off I can no longer get these channels but I can the rest, one of which was Dave but I could still get Dave Ja Vu because that is on another frequency band. Challenge was also missing. All on the C52 722MHz DTG-8 174,000W. What you may be missing after the 4G switch over will differ depending on where you live. Maybe though if you install it on your roof/chimney everything still works, but for me, with the aerial in the loft these few channels went missing after the announced/upgrade to the local transmitter on February 5th 2020. When I used a different loft aerial even with a booster I still could not get these missing channels after the upgrade.
Lastly. Coaxial cable is included but I chose to buy/use the higher, double shielded, specification which has the lattice layer and an additional solid thin internal layer too because these things do make a difference.
I went downstairs and returned the tv. It picked up the same number of channels as the old aerial but wow, I don’t get the picture break up like I did before. It happens rarely but it is a 90% improvement over the long metal digital aerial I had in the loft before.
This aerial may not suit everyone but for me it really improved the picture quality. I would recommend i
I opted for loft installation as I didn’t want any dishes or aerials on the exterior of my property.
Internal TV points are cabled to the loft (5 in total), with use of a power pass-through signal distribution splitter this was connected to the Digidome and mounted at around 5 foot from the floor by the outer-facing wall of my loft.
The mounting bracket was easy to mount to the timber joists and it’s convenient that you can adjust the clamp bolts to allow for easy rotation to assist in alignment.I had to install additional power outlets in my loft beyond the 2 pre-installed by the builder, so as to accommodate the PSU for the Digidome. The Digidome PSU uses a tiny amount of power so little likelihood of over-current nuisance tripping on the consumer unit associated with the loft circuit anyway, I’ve not had any in the last 3 months at any rate.
I’d recommend some good quality cabling and connectors if you’re into DIY cable and aerial installation, it really does make a discernible difference.
The cable pre-supplied with the Digidome is of good quality but I opted to manufacturer my own in any case, using best quality components to ensure perfect signal and lowest possible noise interference.
Using a battery operated digital signal meter to align the dome was easy using a couple of RF leads, then simply tightened the clamp bolts on the base of the Digidome finger-tight at first until I’d tweaked and set-up the various TV’s connected to my signal distribution network, the once satisfied – nipped up with a small socket wrench and socket.
Being loft mounted also gives a sense of security and will of course mean that should any problems arise it’s ultra-easy to access (no ladders in the rain), maybe even enhanced protection against potential lightning strikes?!! (mind you if the roof *IS* hit by lightning – it’s unlikely i’ll be worried about TV reception).
Can honestly say I’m very impressed with the result, we don’t experience any of that stutter or pixelation and high pitched “squawk” you get in bad weather on normal Hi-Gain digital aerials, in my personal experience.
Keeps the family happy, which in-turn keeps me happy.
Glad I purchased this after reading the reviews and manufacturer information confirming it was suitable for use in-doors.
Plus it just looks cool, better than an old aerial, in my opinion.
I don’t normally write product reviews, but just this once, I wanted to write a short review of this product, because, to be honest, I an surprised just how good it is. I bought this thinking, well, I’ll give it a go, but there must be a reason where everyone else in my street has a giant coat hanger on their roof. And every internal aerial I’ve tried never works, so my hopes for this little dome were not that great. I also read a few thread on some Aerial forums saying this could never work. I nearly cancelled my order, but didn’t in the end and thought I’d give it a try. I am also not in a great signal area, RG42 postcode, being on the limits of 2 transmitters. Before I fitted it to the outside of the house, I plugged t all together and tried it on the bedroom, thinking that I’d get nothing at all, or maybe a dodgy picture, but that would at least give me enough confidence to climb the ladders and attach it to my house, bearing in mind, I hate heights, so there was no way I was going up the ladder just for it not to work at all.
Anyway, to my surprise, even indoors in my bedroom, with me pointing it roughly West’ish, it picked up a pretty good signal through the wall, and I got all the non HD Freeview channels….woohoo. Cutting a long story short, I forced my self up the ladder to about 3m, fitted it just above the Satellite Dish, told the LG Ultra HD TV to autotune, and it found all the Non HD and HD Freeview channels straight away, with 90% signal strength and 100% signal quality……..and the picture on all the channels is brilliant, rock solid with no blocking or drop outs.
The wife’s happy too, because al we have on the wall outside the house is this little white dome, and not a giant coat hanger, and I’ve got perfect Freeview. Brilliant product. I’m so glad I ignored all the negative comments on the Aerial forum, not that I even understood the techie stuff anyway.
It really surprised me, to be honest. I wasn’t sure it would work – partly because I’m only in a bungalow so can’t get the aerial up very high AND because the bungalow next door is larger than mine so it’s brick work is directly in line between me and the transmitter. I first tried it outside. Whilst I got most of the channels, it didn’t give me a good signal strength. I thought, as a last ditch attempt I’d try it in the loft – allowing me to raise the aerial about 1.5 metres higher – BUT then my own roof tiles and my own and my neighbour’s gable end was in the way so I didn’t expect anything. Well, I managed to find quite a few spots in the loft with a great signal – with trial and error found the best position overall.
Now, despite using old, poor quality internal cabling from loft to other rooms in the house – I have a very good signal to two TVs – using a Triax 347012 5-1000Mhz splitter. On every TV I get all possible channels with no picture glitches or faults at all – 167 channels in all. My average signal strength is over 60% with 100% quality as per my BT Youview boxes (which I purchased off contract). I also have 3 way triax 5-1000 Mhz splitter if I needed three TVs, the signal with that one is a little reduced, but can still get all the channels. This is with both the trial smart box from Now TV and the Youview boxes. To avoid signal degradation I’ve ensured wherever possible to use the best quality cables and connections. I also used a Fringe Pro Sat and TV finder to find the best signal and orientation. I can quote actual or average signal strength figures form my Youview boxes and the actual signal readings from the Fringe Pro if anyone wants them.
A few points to note though:
1. I’m in quite a good signal strength area – Emley Moor transmitter, which is powerful and only 33 Km away. That said, I can also receive channels successfully on my Youview boxes from more distant transmitters.
2. This is really sub-optimal – so perhaps I’ve been lucky – normally a periodic log internal aerial would be best, and in fact it is possible to get one (eg from Satcure website) that is as little as 30cm long so easy to fit in a loft. That said I’m not convinced it would be any better, given the fact I may be receiving indirect (bounced) signals in my loft, and the fact I have so much brickwork in direct line of sight, a log periodic might actually not work as well, due to being more directional than the SLX antenna.
3. The brackets from the SLX digidome are supposed to only fit in one orientation, it would be better if they were more flexible. As result, I haven’t been able to secure it properly, although I could probably have drilled holes into the bracket to do a better job, I’ve actually used duct tape to secure the aerial to the pole it fits onto. Given that the aerial is very light-weight, and being in the loft nobody interferes with it, that’s working fine.
A lot more detail about my installation and testing can be found in a thread I created on the AVS Forum (entitled “Aerial Passive Splitter – Insertion Loss vs Return Loss” .
During Christmas 2013 we had the most awful winds on the SE coast and my powerful TV antenna with its mast of 2m and all its fins that acted like a galleons sails started to cause problems with the bolts holding the bracket to the chimney, the bolts worked loose with the constant vibration and the bracket started to swing with the wind. Due to the antennas size I feared for my roof and that of my neighbour. So I started to search for a compact, wind friendly solution.
After reading others reviews on how brilliant this Digidome is I placed my order. Well thinking that height probably still matters I bought a piece of 2m long, 55mm PVC waste pipe to make a mast for the Digidome put a blanking plate and F-connector socket in the base and mounted it in the existing chimney bracket with new rawlbolts. I ran the wires on the inside of the pipe to yet again reduce wind resistance. Well the Digidome is about 200mm in diameter and the shape of mushroom….the neighbours have nicknamed it my flag pole…..but I call it just fantastic because regardless what direction I turn it in I get 100% signal strength on all English TV channels and 1080i or 1080p HD depending on channel and occasionally Dolby Digital 5.1 depending on the transmission. Much more though I decided to try to optimise the direction by a little rotation of the Dome and discovered many extra channels once I retuned my receiver and now I have all the French HD channels with Dolby Digital sound as well since I’m only 30 miles from France across the water. I only get max 68% signal strength on the French Channels but perfect picture and sound by just tweaking the rotation of the Digidome small amounts until I received zero bit rate errors….viewed on the receivers transmission detail screen….I think most TVs and Receivers have this function. Well there you go I couldn’t be more happy and am about to remove the second ugly metal antenna from my roof in favour of a sleek second Digidome. Happy days!