Now I heard on the Steve and Johnni WGN radio over night show, where Steve could only get two channels and he took it outside and pointed something towards downtown. He was then able to program things and got all the channels he wanted with ease. H T H Rita ----- Original Message ----- From: Spiro To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] antenna and or boost digital TV
yeah, that's what I'm getting from a Class #1 radio man as well. I need vhf and uhf as there are 2 channels that stayed in the vhf, 6 and 12. but I am definitely having trouble with the uhf's and I'm only getting 2/3 of them. On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Tom Fowle wrote: > I would not series two "boosters' more properly called pre-amplifiers. > You'll be amplifying the noise and other signals you don't want more than the > T.V. signals you do want, and probably end up with lots of intermod meaning > signals resulting from the mixing of other signals in amplifiers > that are being over driven and "saturated." > > There can most definitely be too much gain in such systems. > > Get a better antenna first. > > Especially with everything being new, there is going to be a lot of baseless > hype out there and the utility of amplifiers is one area > where they'll go after you good since nobody understands saturation. > > Once you have a signal with no drop outs, more amplification is bad. > as it does as detailed above and causes distortion and interference from > intermodulation between unwanted signals. > > tom Fowle WA6IVG > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
