Thread: OTA Tuner on 622 VS 722K

I took home a 722K from the office today to replace a 522 I was using, and I figured I might as well install the OTA unit on the 722K to take advantage of the Dual Tuners for OTA recording.

I have not had OTA antenna at my house in over 5 years since I had an addition put on my house, and just finally got around to installing an antenna in the attic since my roof pitch is now really bad after the addition was put on.

On the 622 I get all the channels in my area without an issue.

I got another 622 in another room, I get all the channels except for channel 20 which was an old WB affiliate.

With the Room with the 722K the OTA is the worst, I don't get channel 20 in addition im noticing that the picture keeps on breaking up on our ABC Affiliate which is giving me a 75% signal strengh and im seeing slight pixilization on channel 50 which is our CW affiliate.

Im thinking the 722K was susposed to be better, but it seems to me that the OTA tuner is not as sensitive.

Try the good 622 at the 722K location and the 722 at the 622 location it could be a cabling problem. You probably already did that but it was the first thought. Didn't you have a fire about a year ago was cabling replaced?

Claude your findings match those of mine. The OTA tuner on the 722k stinks.

The issue probably isnt the tuner itself but the fact the the OTA signal is split to two signals before it reached the tuner, this internal splitting is probably what is causing the issue of lower signal strength.

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

Claude your findings match those of mine. The OTA tuner on the 722k stinks.

The issue probably isnt the tuner itself but the fact the the OTA signal is split to two signals before it reached the tuner, this internal splitting is probably what is causing the issue of lower signal strength.

Scott or Claude, have you tried putting a small powered signal amplifier between the 722k and your OTA feed?

Originally Posted by allargon

Scott or Claude, have you tried putting a small powered signal amplifier between the 722k and your OTA feed?

I would like to know the answer of this as well. I'm really hoping there is a solution for this problem by the time the 922 comes out.

Just use in-line amplifier, better place it close to antenna, but active type like Terk T-55 is optimal here.

Here's to hoping that they fix this by the time the 922 comes out. I depend a lot on being able to record OTA with my 722. If the OTA module is worse, no 722k or 922 for me.

Its the SAME ota cartidge for the 922.

As far as an amp goes, my antenna is on the roof, and I am not going up there to put an AMP on it.

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

Its the SAME ota cartidge for the 922.

As far as an amp goes, my antenna is on the roof, and I am not going up there to put an AMP on it.

Close to the antenna doesn't have to mean at the antenna. Try where it comes into the house.