I drove off with the antenna up...
Now I have a broken antenna. Are there alternatives to the crank up antennas? I'd rather have one stuck to a window or something else that can't be damaged. Thanks!
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austinjenna wrote:
I have a channel master flat indoor tv antenna so this last outing I experimented and used the factory antenna on the fiver with the booster on, wrote down all the channels that I got. Then I switched to the channel master antenna, re scanned for channels and I got the same exact ones I did with the antenna, nothing more. nothing less. So I think the flat one would work fine for you as well.
where were you during this test? in an urban park or 50-miles out in the country? TV signals are line of sight and the simple fact is the farther away you are the weaker the signal will be at the receiver. in the old analog world a weaker signal meant "snow" or static in the picture. the farther away the receiver was from the transmitter the more "snow" cluttered the picture until the picture just faded out.
in the digital era the picture is either there or it's not...no "snow", no static. couple that with reduced transmitter power and that many broadcasters have moved to frequencies in the UHF portion of the TV band and line of sight becomes more important than ever before.
the answer in an RV is to elevate the receiving antenna as high as possible.
