I ordered a Tivax STB-T8 yesterday. Has good reviews, customers and
review sites.
I have it and much regret the purchase. Poor sensitivity. Crummy remote.
Slow to change channels. Poor display of program info. Suspect they paid
for good reviews or the other boxes must be really bad. The RCA
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.)
My experience is that an 80% signal is not good enough because
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:17 PM, chrper...@aol.com chrper...@aol.com wrote:
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
Just get an antenna that has sufficient gain to enable you
to receive whatever stations you can reasonably expect to be able to
receive.
Good point. A good antenna is the most important part of it. Everything
else you may do will be to make up for antenna shortfalls. If the antenna
you get has
Thanks very much for the comments, Steve! Interesting that we'll lose
stations when the UHF to VHF transition takes place.
How do you tell, before you purchase, which antenna will give you the
most gain?
We'll have to look into the Channel Master 4228. Baltimore has a
Channel 2, but we
How do you tell, before you purchase, which antenna will give you the
most gain?
Nice charts and discussion at hdtvprimer.com. See section on erecting
antennas.
SolidSignal.com has good info. Note new Channel Master model 4228HD
covers down to channel 7. Channel Master 4228 has the highest
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:09 PM, chrper...@aol.com chrper...@aol.com wrote:
Thanks very much for the comments, Steve! Interesting that we'll lose
stations when the UHF to VHF transition takes place.
How do you tell, before you purchase, which antenna will give you the most
gain?
We'll have
A minor correction: 3 db is twice power, not 1 db.
The formula is: db = 10 log(P2 / P1) = 20 log (v2 / v1) where P is
power and v is voltage.
12 db is an increase in power of about 15.8.
Tom Piwowar wrote:
SolidSignal.com has good info. Note new Channel Master model 4228HD
covers down
A minor correction: 3 db is twice power, not 1 db.
Sorry, brain cramp.
12 db is an increase in power of about 15.8.
A 1580% increase! You definitely want a good antenna.
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Is the choice of antenna something we'll just have to wait to see what
the signals will be like in June when analog signals are turned off?
Channels will move. Frequencies and power will change. A box or antenna
that is so-so now could be just fine in the summer.
I ordered a Tivax STB-T8
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A minor correction: 3 db is twice power, not 1 db.
The formula is: db = 10 log(P2 / P1) = 20 log (v2 / v1) where P is power
and v is voltage.
12 db
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:24 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
Is the choice of antenna something we'll just have to wait to see what the
signals will be like in June when analog signals are turned off? Channels
will move. Frequencies and power will change. A box or antenna that is so-so
I ordered a Tivax STB-T8 yesterday. Has good reviews, customers and
review sites.
I have it and much regret the purchase. Poor sensitivity. Crummy remote.
Slow to change channels. Poor display of program info. Suspect they paid
for good reviews or the other boxes must be really bad. The RCA
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I have it and much regret the purchase. Poor sensitivity. Crummy remote.
Slow to change channels. Poor display of program info. Suspect they paid
for good reviews or the other boxes must be really bad. The RCA box we
have works
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
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