12 volt telly with built in freeview

You lost me there Scrunge, but ta


Gas leak is from the cooker, probably need a new one

 

I've been thinking of getting out of paying TV licence fees (£160 p.a.?) and looking at all sorts of ways 3 or 4 like minded close neighbours could share one valid licence/aerial connection, each having wifi tv access (no individual licence fees chargeable) from it and found stuff like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008248F...UTF8&colid=1CVRB2TYJJZQW&coliid=IOJH70FACUTNU Still looking for a cheapo shared setup.

 

I got out of the licence at my last place, after 20 odd letters and threatening to report them to the police for threatening behaviour. But Sis has a licence here.

 

@Scrungee

There are some potential problems/pitfalls with your wifi idea.

1) Range, the output power of those devices will be pretty low therefore depending on the distance between the neighbours, some or all wil get really bad reception which will result in many "drop-outs"

2) Those units only use an omni-directional (hence no gain) antenna and there seems no provision to connect a better performing antenna and increase the range.

3) The wifi band is shared and only has a limited number of available channels.
If people around you are using the same channels (or even adjacent channels), this will add to the drop-outs.

4) Did you know that microwave ovens use 2.45GHz? which happens to be in the wifi band thus everytime you or your neighbours nuke something in their microwave oven, depending on it's position and distance to the wifi unit, even more interference will be present.

5) Check the exact wording of the license conditions in the UK.
Round here, the law states that if one possesses any equipment that is capable of receiving SABC (in your case BBC) transmissions, then licence fees are payable.
It mentions nothing about actually having to watch the channels.

 

Sorry, forgot to mention:

6) wifi falls in the SHF frequency bands which means that it's line of sight and any structures, vegetation and even rain that is in the transmission path, will heavily attenuate the signals.