This can be read On-Topic or Off-Topic as you will.
The saga continues, and continues, and continues: So far we've
replaced the Apex box with an RCA box. We get a much clearer picture
with the RCA box, and I like the RCA remote much better than the Apex
remote, but we only receive one additional station. (Of course, it's
not WETA.)
We have also tried replacing our home-made antenna (a la the YouTube
instructions) with an RCA "super" antenna. Same results whichever
antenna we used, so the RCA antenna, with booster, goes back to
Walmart tomorrow. No real need to throw away $30 for nothing.
My husband has also reconfigured our home-made antenna to add a few
inches (by using longer pieces of coathanger for the "legs" of the
antenna). That has boosted our signal so we get an additional 3
stations. Nothing we want, especially, but 3 more than before. We have
played with locating the best signal possible inside the house, and
we've gotten to about 80% signal strength. (The RCA box has very nice
controls for monitoring this, which is helpful in siting the antenna
for best reception.)
The next move will be to buy some more antenna cable and try extending
the antenna outside, and above the level of our (flat) roof to see
what difference that makes. This is all pretty ridiculous, but at this
point it's the principle of the thing. If the antenna works outside
the house, we'll have to think about whether, or not, we want to get a
"real" adjustable roof antenna for another couple hundred $$$s. What a
rip-off this whole thing is turning out to be.
The alternative might (or might not!) be to get an HD tv and hook it
up to the Comcast cable in our house. The only stopper for that is --
I don't think the signal strength to any of our tv's will be strong
enough for them to actually receive digital signals without having
Comcast come in and re-wire our house (the Comcast cable splits here
and there as it is fed to various tv's in the house). We had to
connect the new Comcast box directly to the one TV it's 'feeding' and
split beyond it for that tv to receive any of the digital signals.
When we put the splitter between the tv and the box, not only did we
lose digital signals, but we also lost many of the signals we got
before adding the box. Frustrating to the max!
Mical Wimoth Carton
[email protected]
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