Radio Shack amp & Winegard: Update w/ HDTV
A while back, someone from MN or MI said a Radio Shack antenna amp added to the amplified barwing w/ a wingman would radically improve reception. Can you tell me which amp from RS, and how it must...
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We were camping down by Lake Pepin (Mississippi River). The river bluffs are 600 or more feet above the river making getting channels from Minneapolis area (70 miles), St. Cloud MN (130 miles) hard except at night.
I hade switched to a 3 foot RG6u Coaxial cable from a longer 14 foot version. This week with a little help of about 80% cloud cover I got 52 channels which I could still watch after sunset with or without the cloud-cover.
The short coaxial blocked the usual interference from trains passing through the signal, along with other RF interference (only occurs with less than 2 bars). I was quite surprised by the large increase from around 20 channels to 52 channels (includes all the weaker stations in the area).
The shorter the coaxial between 2nd amplifier and television the easier to get a usable signal of only one bar(20% signal strength at TV).
In what some people call the "good old analog TV days" I would like to point out that we could only get one or two channels during the day back then in this location. Maybe two more channels at night time.
Getting television signals is better than ever now, with the exception the programing content may have been better then. Getting the old programs on many more channels is an improvement to me. :D
I hade switched to a 3 foot RG6u Coaxial cable from a longer 14 foot version. This week with a little help of about 80% cloud cover I got 52 channels which I could still watch after sunset with or without the cloud-cover.
The short coaxial blocked the usual interference from trains passing through the signal, along with other RF interference (only occurs with less than 2 bars). I was quite surprised by the large increase from around 20 channels to 52 channels (includes all the weaker stations in the area).
The shorter the coaxial between 2nd amplifier and television the easier to get a usable signal of only one bar(20% signal strength at TV).
In what some people call the "good old analog TV days" I would like to point out that we could only get one or two channels during the day back then in this location. Maybe two more channels at night time.
Getting television signals is better than ever now, with the exception the programing content may have been better then. Getting the old programs on many more channels is an improvement to me. :D
