Re: Is there such thing as OTA HDTV without dropouts?

GG,
I never tried the attenuators either. I figured I wanted to work with
what I had first. I did try an indoor antenna that was made for UHF
only. It's one of those double bow tie stuff they sell at Radio Shack
a long time ago. That only made my reception worst.

thanks for your advice,
stan

As an inexpensive experiment, you could try a couple different value
attenuators say 3, 6 or 10 dB. If the amplifier made it worse, you may
be simply overloading the front end(s). At 12 miles you shouldn't need
any large antenna unless you have a difficult multipath issue that a
more directional could help though it would have more signal output as
well. Attenuators are excellent for that scenario.

We're in LA and use a Winegard SquareShooter (little over 4 dB gain,
13 dB front-back) 35 miles out, line of sight, signal split 4 ways.
Dropouts are so rare I don't remember the last one.

GG


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