** Reply to message from Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:56:26 -0700
> The interesting thing for me was that if I pointed my antenna a certain > way, all DTV but 8.1 came in great, flawless even. Pointing it to get > 8.1 flawless, several other DTV channels suffered. Pointing it toward > the sky seemed to get the best reception for all. And no matter which > way it was pointing, small planes passing high overhead would degrade > the signal somewhat for maybe about ½ a minute or so. (In fact, that's > what gave me the idea to point the antenna toward the sky.) Is the UHF > band bouncing off the upper atmosphere? And why would small planes > interfere? Is it their radio equipment? Or are they just "blocking" > the signal? what antenna design are you using? if you have a Yagi with upper and lower reflectors, which looks like this: / ------- \ try removing the upper reflector while pointing toward Mt Soledad. It may allow enough signal in from behind you( Mt Miguel ) for reception of all of the major channels. It helped here but being so close to the xmitter, it also allowed in too many strong reflections. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
