New TV reception
The new Digital signal some days it is good then some days it's poor. Now mine you nothing have change moved nothing is this the nature of the beast. I put up many different antenna's all perform abo...
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When Dtv was new, I wound up making a tiered bowtie antenna with some vhf arms reaching out towards the towers still broadcasting signals on those frequencies. I was rather amazed at how many stations I got from mt wilson some 92 miles away.
But TV fool said what would be my strongest channels, were not, and stations that should have been weak were strong.
When the novelty of having 80 channels wore off I quit bothering aiming it so precisely. The tiered bowtie antenna was large and a pain to set up and lower and when I went of a roadtrip I just wanted a small easy omni antenna to get the main networks when somewhat close to towers.
To my complete surprise i was still able to get 75% of the channels that I could get with the tiered bowtie antenna sticking as high as 12 feet in the air and precisely aimed at Mt wilson. This antenna did better than a full size antenna master tv antenna nearby did so my tiered bowtie antenna was no slouch, but this tiny 16 inch long single rabbit ear omni antenna's reception was impressive to say the least.
So much so I have never bothered hooking up the tiered bowtie antenna again. I do have 2 of these antennas on an A-B switch, in slightly different orientations and if I can't get a channel on one I slide the switch and can usually get it on the other antenna or if LA stations are seeming weak I see of their equivalent SD stations are coming in.
I gave up on the reasons why I get stations I should not be able to and can't get stations I should be able to according to Tvfool.com
There has to be some good reason, but at this point it is what it is and if I can't get the station I want with my tiny single rabbitt ear antenna, I bust out a book instead.
But TV fool said what would be my strongest channels, were not, and stations that should have been weak were strong.
When the novelty of having 80 channels wore off I quit bothering aiming it so precisely. The tiered bowtie antenna was large and a pain to set up and lower and when I went of a roadtrip I just wanted a small easy omni antenna to get the main networks when somewhat close to towers.
To my complete surprise i was still able to get 75% of the channels that I could get with the tiered bowtie antenna sticking as high as 12 feet in the air and precisely aimed at Mt wilson. This antenna did better than a full size antenna master tv antenna nearby did so my tiered bowtie antenna was no slouch, but this tiny 16 inch long single rabbit ear omni antenna's reception was impressive to say the least.
So much so I have never bothered hooking up the tiered bowtie antenna again. I do have 2 of these antennas on an A-B switch, in slightly different orientations and if I can't get a channel on one I slide the switch and can usually get it on the other antenna or if LA stations are seeming weak I see of their equivalent SD stations are coming in.
I gave up on the reasons why I get stations I should not be able to and can't get stations I should be able to according to Tvfool.com
There has to be some good reason, but at this point it is what it is and if I can't get the station I want with my tiny single rabbitt ear antenna, I bust out a book instead.
