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HDTV reception
How do you improve HDTV reception?
My best reception is with the NYC official station. (254592, no 7,13). I'm using a Supersonic portbale with an antenna tha came with a USB TV receiver. I can't even find a decent cheap antenna. We used to have dozens of stations before HDTV. No way I'm getting cable. We are proud we are the only house without cable. My late dad refused to ever let me get a VCR. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
HDTV reception
How do you improve HDTV reception?
Put up a decent antenna on the roof, and run decent 75-ohm coax to your TV. Antenna height helps a lot. So does aiming the antenna towards the transmitters (this may require a rotator, or an electrically-steerable antenna in some places, if the TV transmitters aren't all in roughly the same direction). If you can't put an antenna on your roof, you might be able to put one in the attic. I'm using a Supersonic portbale with an antenna tha came with a USB TV receiver. I can't even find a decent cheap antenna. What you need, in terms of an antenna, depends quite a lot on where you are. In some areas, a UHF-only antenna is adequate. Take a look at http://www.tvantennaplans.com/ - there are plans for a home-built Gray-Hoverman DB4 antenna design you can make yourself. http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=81982 has boatloads of additional information, including several design variations. If your area still carries digital TV on some of the VHF frequencies, you may need more than this. The old-standard analog-TV roof antenna (which covers VHF low band, VHF high band, and UHF) will almost always work fine for HDTV. If you've got a big roof with lots of room, want a "stealthy" antenna that the neighbors don't see or complain about, and the TV transmitters are mostly in one direction, consider putting up a "terminated rhombic"... it's just four pieces of wire in a diamond shape, with the feedline at the "away from the transmitters" end, and a resistor at the "towards the transmitters" end. Remove the resistor and short the ends together, (or leave 'em open) and you end up with an unterminated rhombic, which will receive signals well from both directions (but not from off to the side). -- Dave Platt AE6EO Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
HDTV reception
On Apr 9, 5:47*pm, wrote:
How do you improve HDTV reception? My best reception is with the NYC official station. (254592, no 7,13). I'm using a Supersonic portbale with an antenna tha came with a USB TV receiver. I can't even find a decent cheap antenna. We used to have dozens of stations before HDTV. No way I'm getting cable. We are proud we are the only house without cable. My late dad refused to ever let me get a VCR. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - = - *Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist * *http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm...k.com/vasjpan2 * ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. *Everything fully disclaimed..}--- * *[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] *[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] You have 3 VHF-HI channels in NY. List here http://www.dtv.gov/stationlist.htm If you folks have a house, there is a good chance this antenna could work well for you. http://www.winegard.com/kbase/upload/HD7694P.pdf It's 5.5 ft long, 3 ft wide, quite small compared to older all channel antennas that went down to channel 2. This unit is VHF-HI and UHF which will cover all the spectrum in your area. The gain is good, and front-to-back ratio (ghost rejection) is good also. If you're hidden behind big buildings or hills you may have problems but if you have a clear shot at the towers, this will get you going well. G² |
HDTV reception
On Apr 9, 5:47*pm, wrote:
How do you improve HDTV reception? My best reception is with the NYC official station. (254592, no 7,13). I'm using a Supersonic portbale with an antenna tha came with a USB TV receiver. I can't even find a decent cheap antenna. We used to have dozens of stations before HDTV. No way I'm getting cable. We are proud we are the only house without cable. My late dad refused to ever let me get a VCR. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - = - *Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist * *http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm...k.com/vasjpan2 * ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. *Everything fully disclaimed..}--- * *[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] *[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] tuner makes a huge difference, too. |
HDTV reception
*+-Put up a decent antenna on the roof, and run decent 75-ohm coax to hm.. yeah, I might pull a wire from my uncle's attic antenna.. thanks.. but the idea is this is a portabel TV - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
HDTV reception
*+-http://www.tvantennaplans.com/ - there are plans for a home-built *+-Gray-Hoverman DB4 antenna design you can make yourself. Cool! Thanks! - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
HDTV reception
*+-The USB dongle type of HDTV receivers are worse than awful. They *+-usually don't have enough sensitivity to work in marginal situations, I got the "mobile antena" from the USB dongle. The USB dongle never worked. The TV is a portable, about 7". (My previous TV was a 1982 2" BW LCD portable). The original antenna didn't seem to work as well. But you got different stations with each antenna. THe antenna is F-type. I paid like $100 for the TV, so I'd be willing to pay $15 for an antenna that doesn't hog too much space. I ended up getting an amplified F-type for radio which of course doesn't work on TV. I find it curious the public (city owned) station (not NET) is the most reliable. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
HDTV reception
On Apr 11, 6:20*pm, wrote:
*+-http://www.tvantennaplans.com/- there are plans for a home-built *+-Gray-Hoverman DB4 antenna design you can make yourself. Cool! Thanks! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - = - *Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist * *http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm...k.com/vasjpan2 * ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. *Everything fully disclaimed..}--- * *[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] *[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] Sort of cool except it's a UHF antenna. You'll have problems with 7, 8 and 13. G² |
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