On 6/8/06, Stan Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
michael,
my experience is tainted, admittedly, but i would like to help set your
expectations.
i used a (mediocre) external antennae that i routed with coax to the top of
my house (literally to the peak, outside). (my hdtv has a coax connection
for antennae hd signals.) during the daylight hours my reception was
basically non-existent. during the evenings i got some great signal. (this
is how i watched the ncaa men's basketball championship.)
you can expect better results if you use a better antennae, i'm sure. best
of luck to you.
Unfortunately, digital TV reception can be very hit or miss. Where I
am up in Wake Forest, I can often get the WUNC digital channels, but
almost never get any of the others.
I'm pretty sure that the problem is multi-path distortion since if I
view the corresponding analog channels, all but UNC exhibit ghosting.
Because of the standards chosen for terrestrial digital television in
the US, multipath kills reception.
I've thought about a rotator and a directional antenna, or some more
clever antenna farm, but so far I'm relying on DirectTV. I can get
the NBC and ABC HD feeds from New York that way but WRAL refuses to
let them give access to the national CBS feed to subscribers here.
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