[opendtv] Re: Sony Vaio home theater PC
- From: Kilroy Hughes <Kilroy.Hughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:48:45 -0700
Don't know firsthand about analog echoes because I haven't used an antenna for
analog TV since the 1960s. I don't think it's a problem though ... right in
the A++ profile for the city. Nothing a twist of the rabbit ears won't null.
The first thing I suspected was saturation, but I can get good reception of the
near towers by pointing directly at them and can crank up the antenna gain most
of the way without problems, so the preamps and tuner AGC appears to handle the
strongest signals I can get.
Kilroy Hughes
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From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Dale Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:20 PM
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Sony Vaio home theater PC
> I'd love to know exactly what makes reception
difficult when it should be easy. Is it one of those super long and
strong echoes, like they measured in the Bay Area?
Wonder what the analog TV reception looks like? A "super long and strong
echo" should also degrade that signal.
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[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Manfredi, Albert E
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:07 PM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Sony Vaio home theater PC
Kilroy Hughes wrote:
> My biggest problem was getting a reliable ATSC signal because
> I'm near city center on a flat lake with line of sight to the
> transmitters (:-) go figure. I went through several tuners and
> antennas until I found a combination that could handle the
> multipath for most of the stations with a single antenna position
> and gain ("5th gen" tuner cards beat out the built in DTV tuners
> I tried). I still record dropouts and blocking every couple
> minutes when the rain gets bad ... about 160 days a year in
> Seattle. I never watch live broadcast, so I'm not around to beat
> and swear at the antenna when it's happening and just have to
> delete shows when they are too messed up.
On a recent trip to Seattle, I finally went up the Space Needle. The
guide and elevator operator said it is 520' tall. So my first reaction
was, "Big deal. I bet I can see TV towers looming over it."
And sure enough, after we got to the top, I scanned the horizon and
found three TV towers on a ridge, I think to the North of the Space
Needle, and considerably taller than it is. It seemed like DTV reception
in Seattle SHOULD be a piece of cake. How strange. Maybe they should use
Mount Rainier instead? I'd love to know exactly what makes reception
difficult when it should be easy. Is it one of those super long and
strong echoes, like they measured in the Bay Area?
Bert
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