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 > > > >> 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 >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: >> >> - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at >> > FreeLists.org > >> - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word >> > unsubscribe in the subject line. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > unsubscribe in the subject line. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.