Maybe your digital is less versatile than our here in Au ?
I live a long way from the tx site and experience little degredation with my
nice shiny new set top box and antenna .
Or maybe your analogue setup simply doesn't work well on the wrong frequencies
?
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
From: glaen...@verizon.net
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:51:04 -0600
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Somewhat OT - an interesting antenna design
but............But...........BUT...................
I thought The Almighty and Everlasting Digital
Signal (Praise Be To Its Bits Eternally, Ignore That Pixellating Behind The
Curtain ! ) was going to cure all the supposed ills of that nasty old NTSC
demon
Can it be that ONCE AGAIN, we were fed a crap
sandwich by the NATVB and the FCC ?
PLEASE..tell me it ain't so !
Pessimist About All Things Digital,
Gary in IL
----- Original Message -----
From:
Chuck
Kelsey
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 6:42
AM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Somewhat
OT - an interesting antenna design
This is going to be a bigger problem than many stations may have
anticipated. A friend of mine has an all-channel antenna on a rotor and
can
get 20 analog stations. He purchased a converter to see what he could
get in
digital. He can only get four, and three of those pixilate quite
badly.
Almost everything has gone to UHF here. My area is in the fringe of
two
markets. UHF doesn't work as well in the hills. I doubt translators
will be
implemented -- too much money.
Chuck
----- Original
Message -----
From: <n...@no6b.com>
To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com>
Sent:
Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder]
Somewhat OT - an interesting antenna design
> At 2/19/2009 18:08,
you wrote:
>>Along these same lines....
>>
>>Has
anyone on this list built / put into practice a Gray-Hoverman
panel
>>antenna? How do they perform? Is it worth building one?
Double or single?
>>http://www.casano.com/projects/hoverman/index.html
>>
>>I'm
about 70 miles from my target DTV market. (Pittsburgh, PA) NOBODY
here
>>can seem to get the Pittsburgh ABC affiliate with their
current V/U
>>antenna
>>setups. (WTAE4) I have some people
that I am helping get their converter
>>boxes hooked up and working.
They are VERY disappointed that they won't be
>>able get their news
from channel 4 once DTV has gone into full effect.
>>(They
>>DO have one of the areas BEST news teams - in my
opinion.)
>
> The center of the map says it all IMO: A4 - D51.
Would be nice if they
> backfilled ch. 4 after the cutover, but I think
the channel #s on the map
> indicate the final
assignment.
>
>>I'm wondering if a dedicated UHF panel and good
UHF only preamp will help
>>the situation.
>
> I think
all you can do is go for max. gain @ ch. 51 & hope the problem
>
isn't multipath; if it is you're SOL unless you go WAY up in the air
with
> the antenna. Stacked Yagis might get the job done @ ch. 51, but
then
> you'd
> need another antenna for the other channels. Don't
know if a parabolic
> would be broadband enough - depends on the type of
feed & if the aperture
> (diameter) is large enough to work
reasonably at the lowest DTV channel.
>
> Bob
NO6B
>
>
>
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