[ale] HDTV antenna for urban areas

[Asher Vilensky]

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.


-- Asher Vilensky
  ashervilensky at gmail.com
  Home: 404-377-8434
  Cell: 404 452 8642


On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com>wrote:

> 1. What's the price of each component?
>
> 2. Can an existing analog antenna and amp be used?
>
> 3. Am I likely to get a clean signal if I only get a poor analog
>   signal where I am?
>
> The idea is can I use my existing analog equipment that I gave up on
> due to poor signal and insufficient interest for another solution for
> analog?
>
> [Yeah, I got a $50 converter at Target with a $40 taxpayer-supplied
> rebate.]
>
> thx,
> Bob
> [Who kicked out the cable company 9 years ago.]
>
> "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
> them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where
> the shadows lie...and the Eye is everwatching"
> -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh with ... by Bob
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:48:37PM -0400, Daniel Howard wrote:
> > As a small token of my appreciation to the list, and since some folks
> > have posted recently about setting up off air HDTV reception with the
> > transition date looming, I thought you guys would enjoy some solutions
> > I've run across for dealing with the extensive multipath you get in
> > dense urban areas for HDTV reception.  Enjoy, Daniel
> >
> > 1.  My solution: I have two RadioShack large aperture/gain antennas in
> > my attic, each with a low noise amp at the antenna output, and I have an
> > A/B switch in my TV room such that when I see multipath interfering with
> > reception on one antenna, I switch to the other.  The antennas have to
> > be at least 10 lambda apart however since their gain is so high, and at
> > VHF frequencies for Channel 11 (around 200 MHz), this is about 48 ft.,
> > Using a spectrum analyzer revealed the multipath was spatially
> > decorrelated between the two antennas in my attic even though they were
> > only 40 ft. apart.
> >
> > I had to use this solution because I'm in a valley topographically with
> > buildings and land blocking my direct line of sight to the antenna
> > towers.
> >
> > 2.  If you have line of sight to the towers (use www.antennaweb.org),
> > but have lots of big buildings around you, you just need a really
> > directional antenna, here's what my friend at GaTech used.  Make sure to
> > click page two at the bottom of the web site for the second, more robust
> > and easier to manufacture solution that he came up with, brilliant IMHO.
> >
> > http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~wn17/<http://www.prism.gatech.edu/%7Ewn17/>
> >
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