[TriLUG] [OT] HD Antenna suggestions, was: TV Tuner Card suggestion

[Neil L. Little]

You can get TV signal splitters just about anywhere, such as Lowes, Home 
Depote or Radio (Cell-Phone) Shack. Signal degradation is not really 
noticeable unless you are splitting off more than 4 feeds or trying to 
pull in a fringe station (say like from Greenville or Winston-Salem). If 
you have more than that go with a distribution amplifier.

I have never used/needed one a distribution amp except back in the pre 
Directv days when I had cable and was masking multiple internal drops.

74,
Neil, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!
www.jars.net


Steve Litt wrote:
> How do you split the signal between different TVs (or do you have only one?). 
> >From what I hear, splitting lowers the signal by 3db each split, or something 
> like that, and it requires special hardware.
>
> If I had only 1 TV, I'd love to have an external antenna!
>
> SteveT
>
> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 11:57:31 am Jon Fraley wrote:
>   
>> I bought an amplified rabbit eared antenna from Wal-mart a while back,
>> it worked somewhat better than just plane old rabbit ears.  I have since
>> mounted a rooftop antenna and are very pleased with the results.  I get
>> over 40 channels OTA.  Granted alot of them are redundant (3 CBS, 2 Fox,
>> 3 NBC, 3 different sets of PBS and more weather than I will ever need)
>> and I have to reposition the antenna to get some.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 09:53 -0500, Brian Henning wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi gang,
>>>
>>> Thought I'd hijack this thread to see if anyone might have advice on HD
>>> antennas.  I just got the converter box (I have an old analog-only TV
>>> right now, and dropped TWC a few months ago when they wouldn't let me go
>>> straight from one promo deal to another) and I've been trying different
>>> antennas and have had somewhat surprising results.  Note: low-profile is
>>> a requirement; I don't have room for something I can't mount on the
>>> wall.
>>>
>>> First I tried a $20 passive antenna.  Looks cheap, but scanning found
>>> about 12 channels (though I can't actually watch all of them; I get
>>> weak- or no-signal messages on all the NBC channels, and most channels
>>> suffer frequent dropouts).
>>>
>>> Then I tried a $100 "smart" antenna.  It works WAY WORSE than the $20
>>> contraption; I can only pull in PBS with that thing.  Granted I was
>>> testing during the icky weather last night, but I was
>>> half-expecting/hoping that the $100 guy would always outperform the $20
>>> guy.  Caveat emptor.
>>>
>>> So next I'm thinking about trying a $60 amped not-smart antenna.  Should
>>> I bother?  It seems my reception (in a ground-floor apartment near
>>> Southpoint) is poor all around, but even with a low SNR, more amplitude
>>> still means more signal, right?...  until you start to overwhelm the
>>> receiver, but one amped antenna shouldn't do that...
>>>
>>> All suggestions welcome.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot!
>>> ~Brian
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>>> Behalf Of OlsonE at aosa.army.mil
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:38 AM
>>> To: trilug at trilug.org
>>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] TV Tuner Card suggestion [may be OT]
>>>
>>> LOL! C-SPAN would be the last channel on my list I'd pay for!
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Tanner Lovelace
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:36 AM
>>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] TV Tuner Card suggestion [may be OT]
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Josh Vickery <josh at vickeryj.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> If you have Timer Warner Durham, I find this list to be wonderfully
>>>>         
>>> helpful:
>>>       
>>>> http://home1.gte.net/res18h39/channels.htm
>>>>
>>>> as Time Warner seems to like to change their channel assignments.
>>>>         
>>> I wonder why, out of all the possible channels, it lists C-SPAN  as
>>> "(encrypted)".  I would have thought that would be one of the first
>>> ones to leave unencrypted.  I guess they just can't have people
>>> watching their government without paying for it!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Tanner
>>>
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