Re: Do any HDTVs with built-in QAM tuners have video/audio outs?

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:45:25 GMT Alan F <afiggatt1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:15:16 GMT Alan F <afiggatt1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>
|> | If you have questions about OTA reception and what antenna setup you
|> | need for your location, post your zip code here and we can provide some
|> | advice. A starting point for OTA is antennaweb.org.
|>
|> I'm in a zip code that covers both sides of a ridge of hills. Reception
|> on one side is from one market while reception on the other side is from
|> a different market. I think you need the 9 digit zip or better yet, just
|> the latitude and longitude (and maybe elevation).
|
| With the zip code, we can look up the digital stations in your area
| and what channels are they on - all UHF or some on VHF, how far and in
| what directions as a starting point for antenna selection. To get a read
| on whether you can get the stations given local terrain problems, go to
| www.tvfool.com and enter your exact location. tvfool is limited by the
| accuracy and detail of the terrain map in it's database, but it can give
| you some guidance.

It seems to be a little off. In analog, I get a barely discernable sync bar
on WTRF, while I get snowy, but watchable, pictures from KDKA, WTAE, WPXI,
and WQED (all VHF). WTOV is completely absent. This is with rabbit ear
antennas. My experience in past locations comparing rabbit ear to big
beam reception is that if I can barely get sync on ears, I can get a snowy
but watchable picture on a beam, and if I get snowy on the ears I can get
reasonably clean on the beam. There have always been some variations,
such as one UHF station that came in better on the side of a VHF antenna
than it did on a UHF yagi pointed in the correct direction (which did get
a closer UHF station in the same direction OK that the VHF antenna didn't
get at all). Sometimes the signals just doo odd stuff and you can never
really be sure, such as the that UHF station may really have been coming
in on a reflection from the south (it was west of that location).

My current location is on the side of a hill facing southeast, but open
to the northeast, the direction of Pittsburgh. Just 300 or so feet to
the west and that location is on the other side of the hill and would
get completely different stations. It doesn't take much variation in
position to change the signals around here.

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