Recent content by JB Antennaman

Actually Wallfish - the signal depends on how the signal refracts over the horizon to your location. I had a customer ask me about reception for a area of the country up around Wisconsin where the transmitters were somewhere near the lake at a elevation of about 1100 feet above sea level and...

Diplexers by nature are power hogs. So using one in a fringe area might not work as well as you think. If the Diplexer has a loss rate of 3.5 DB - more then half of the television signal will be lost in the diplexer.

He sent the address in PM and I deleted it before I thought about saving it. He lives between a lake and a pond, directly below Old Creamery Road. Just for the sake of trying, I came up with a close address 45 Lenape road...

The problem still is that with UHF, the antenna needs to be pointed in the right direction and using two antenna's would increase the likelyhood of multipath due to the fact that the one antenna would be looking forward, while the other antenna would be looking back. You would need about 8...

I just wrote a report for his situation and for the most part it is hopeless. Because he lives down in a valley where the signals don't shine, the chances of getting most anything more then one PBS and the Independent channel and One ABC is about all that is in his report. To improve his...

There was a tower mentioned in a article by Scott Flybush a month or so ago in one of his transmitter articles about a tower that had a lean to it. When the technicians went to remove the lean, the tower fell down. The tallest transmitter tower in the world fell back in 1991 - the Warsaw Radio...

How to explain this without stepping on anyone's toe's. A street level address is necessary to look at your TV fool report. Even with a TV fool radar plot, there is no real way to look at your situation without the address due to the fact that simple little things like a group of trees or a...

The real answer is NO. Without a real street level address, there is no real way for me to advise you as to which antenna set up you need. But, because some people do not understand virtual channels vs. real channels, the digital mapping of channels might not be the same as the virtual...

Just trying to answer a complicated question with a simple answer. I am sure that there are people out there that could make plutonium out of common household items and a microwave set to 1800 degrees for 6 hours. But I am not that well versed in that subject. However I do understand...

Just my two cents, First off, the proper way to receive UHF is by putting your antenna outdoors. Who ever and for what ever reason - decided to put their antenna in their attic is just kidding themselves when they think that they can do it and not pay a price. The price of using a indoors...

Signal strength means nothing to us due to the fact that there is no standard SWR - standing wave ratio between receivers and what is considered to be a strong signal by one manufacturer is not as good by another manufactures standards. What matters is the sensitivity of the receiver. In the...

VHF reception is more susceptible to interference then UHF. The lower down in frequency you go the worse it becomes. Channel 2 is the worst for reception. Band 1 stations often had very tall antenna's due to their long wave length, it allows them to use much less transmitter output. It saves...

Before I correct anyone for any mistakes that they made with their understanding of how UHF / VHF works on digital - let's fix your problem. You have one antenna of unknown origin and several DTV converters. If everything worked before you started, then the first guess would be that you did...

Splicer - whats your problem? I was trying to make a example, I did not say this is this or that is that. No splitters that I know of comes right out and says = this port is good and this port is junk. You can buy sweep tested stuff that is not much better. I was trying to make a point, the...

Is it possible to pull in far away digital stations these day's? I remember a few nights when the atmosphere was just right pulling in analog stations that were 3, sometimes 4 states away with a good rooftop antenna. Does anybody stay up late at night playing with there antenna trying to get far...