I don't think the VHF performance of a double bowtie antenna is all that much to write home about.
That's what the folks at WILX-TV in our market found out when they went back to their analog VHF 10 at the end of the transition, making them the only VHF ATSC in the market.
John----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Manfredi" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 8:20 PM Subject: [opendtv] New setup
Just replaced the 3rd gen Digital Stream cum 26" Insignia LCD upstairs with a 26" LG LCD LED 1080p and a new LG BD player.Using the same Radio Shack double bowtie, got fuss-free reception of all DC and some Balt channels, EXCEPT for CBS9. Amazing. CBS9 is in fact the lower power VHF station in this market (12.6 KW ERP), but my downstairs setup gets it solid. My wife doesn't want two DB4 antennas unpstairs, so I'll be experimenting with prettier antennas, I guess.The two Balt VHF, just like downstairs, completely missing in action. Although I did notice that the autoscan hesitated a bit on 11 and 13. But the manual channel edit showed no signal at all.Also, during setup, I looked for a standard stereo left/right RCA output. WHAT?? There are none? Panic panic. Can I buy a Toslink to stereo converter box? Panic.Whew! There is a headphone outlet off to the side. And I already had a stereo mini phone plug to RCA adapter. So all is good, and the sound goes through the stereo sound system as God intended.Bert _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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