[opendtv] Re: My first dtv converter box

Allen Le Roy Limberg wrote:
> Our experience in Port Charlotte, FL was quite different, both with a
> Magnavox converter from Walmart and with a Zenith converter from Circuit
> City.  We have aluminum foil on the concrete cinder block walls, but with
> the rabbit ears and ring antenna set in the bay window reception is good,
> except when there is lightning in severe rainstorms.  We have better
> reception than we had with NTSC, especially for ABC out of Sarasota.
>
> Did you play with antenna location?
>
> Al
>   
No, my mom didn't want to spend any more time on it and the antenna was
fixed to the top of the TV.  She will be heading back to Michigan in a
week or so and said she would handle it when she gets back.   And as I
mentioned she has E* anyway in the living room.  This was just a cheap
bedroom 2nd TV.

- Tom

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Barry" <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "opendtv" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 8:14 PM
> Subject: [opendtv] My first dtv converter box
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>> While I've used various HDPC cards and HDTV's for some years but this
>> past weekend I played with my first low priced converter box.
>>
>> I visited my mom for Easter.   During the winter season she lives off in
>> the boonies in central Florida, away from most everything.  She has Dish
>> TV but uses a small second TV with a whip antenna to get a somewhat
>> snowy picture on one channel in the bedroom.
>>
>> Apparently on impulse and without coupon she had purchased one of the
>> low priced converter boxes for this.  When I arrived I found I was in
>> charge of installing it. ;-)
>>
>> Predictably it got no channels.  She was not interested in hooking it up
>> to the (dead) rotor antenna on about a 35 foot tower that my dad used to
>> use before the satellite dish.  She was also not interested in running a
>> cable thru the wall where the E* box was exactly on the other side in
>> the living room.
>>
>> She just said she could return the box, and would.
>>
>> I don't blame this on ATSC, or poor converter boxes, and I don't know
>> how typical this scenario was.  But as my only attempt to set up a
>> converter box for a older family member I thought it was an interesting
>> anecdote.
>>
>> - Tom
>>
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