I __AM__ using my old analog equipment ("fancy" rabbit ears) with the converter. It's all inside the house - not in the attic. I get good clean picture.<br><br><br clear="all">-- Asher Vilensky<br> <a href="mailto:ashervilensky@gmail.com">ashervilensky@gmail.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Bob Toxen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:transam@verysecurelinux.com">transam@verysecurelinux.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
1. What's the price of each component?<br>
<br>
2. Can an existing analog antenna and amp be used?<br>
<br>
3. Am I likely to get a clean signal if I only get a poor analog<br>
signal where I am?<br>
<br>
The idea is can I use my existing analog equipment that I gave up on<br>
due to poor signal and insufficient interest for another solution for<br>
analog?<br>
<br>
[Yeah, I got a $50 converter at Target with a $40 taxpayer-supplied<br>
rebate.]<br>
<br>
thx,<br>
Bob<br>
[Who kicked out the cable company 9 years ago.]<br>
<br>
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring<br>
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where<br>
the shadows lie...and the Eye is everwatching"<br>
-- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh with ... by Bob<br>
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:48:37PM -0400, Daniel Howard wrote:<br>
> As a small token of my appreciation to the list, and since some folks<br>
> have posted recently about setting up off air HDTV reception with the<br>
> transition date looming, I thought you guys would enjoy some solutions<br>
> I've run across for dealing with the extensive multipath you get in<br>
> dense urban areas for HDTV reception. Enjoy, Daniel<br>
><br>
> 1. My solution: I have two RadioShack large aperture/gain antennas in<br>
> my attic, each with a low noise amp at the antenna output, and I have an<br>
> A/B switch in my TV room such that when I see multipath interfering with<br>
> reception on one antenna, I switch to the other. The antennas have to<br>
> be at least 10 lambda apart however since their gain is so high, and at<br>
> VHF frequencies for Channel 11 (around 200 MHz), this is about 48 ft.,<br>
> Using a spectrum analyzer revealed the multipath was spatially<br>
> decorrelated between the two antennas in my attic even though they were<br>
> only 40 ft. apart.<br>
><br>
> I had to use this solution because I'm in a valley topographically with<br>
> buildings and land blocking my direct line of sight to the antenna<br>
> towers.<br>
><br>
> 2. If you have line of sight to the towers (use <a href="http://www.antennaweb.org" target="_blank">www.antennaweb.org</a>),<br>
> but have lots of big buildings around you, you just need a really<br>
> directional antenna, here's what my friend at GaTech used. Make sure to<br>
> click page two at the bottom of the web site for the second, more robust<br>
> and easier to manufacture solution that he came up with, brilliant IMHO.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.prism.gatech.edu/%7Ewn17/" target="_blank">http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~wn17/</a><br>
><br>
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