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I now have the Televes up on the roof about 3 feet from the antenna. From there the coax goes to a 3 way splitter and then into the house in 3 separate locations. It is a new Channelmaster power passing splitter and the preamp works great now. I did replace the RG6 coax from the splitter down to...

Just installed the Televes preamp. When I put it up on the antenna mast I received no channels on any TV in the house. The power LED on the outside unit (mounted on the mast) seemed very dim but I attributed that to the brightness of a sunny day. Out of curiosity I moved the unit inside and...

It's on the antenna mast up on my roof. I had the same thought about overheating. As of now I've ordered and received the Televes unit mentioned above, haven't installed it yet. Will post results when I get it installed.

So I got this preamp and installed it, worked great I thought, my TV saw 88 channels on the initial scan with the preamp, vs. 32 channels without it. The only problem is that it only works for a few hours at a time, then something happens and all channels disappear. Unplugging the preamp doesn't...

I ordered the Mediasonic HW-150PVR from Amazon - should be here today. I've been trying to use an old Samsung SIR-T-451 with a DVI to HDMI adapter - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - don't know why. The sensitivity is not very good on the Samsung, but the picture is good on the channels...

Anyone know of an ATSC tuner that has a good signal strength display? I just put up an antenna rotator and want to use it to seek out stations that the auto tuning misses. Right now I have one TV that will allow me to input an RF channel number and then display signal strength and quality for...

With the antenna rotated to about 290 degrees I watched Channel 8 all evening last night - not a glitch. I still plan to install the rotator when it arrives - I'd like to experiment a bit with receiving more distant stations. There is an Ion station in Bakersfield that I've seen occasionally...

Here's the TVFOOL report. I rotated the antenna 180 degrees and rescanned - getting pretty much the same channels as before - won't know until after dark whether it helped. I do have a rotator on order but it won't be here until next week. BTW I see I was wrong about Ch 9 being a Mexican...

I recently put up a new antenna and am experiencing a strange problem. In San Diego there are 2 stations on VHF, channels 8 and 10 (plus at least one from Mexico on Channel 9). I have a Winegard 8200 pointed at 105 degrees to pick up UHF stations and the VHF stations are at about 290 degrees so...

Sounds like LG has a marginal audio processor - maybe they don't care since most people use cable or DBS and this only affects the OTA users. Funny how the several year old Samsung has no problem feeding the 5.1 audio to the surround sound system but the few months old LG can't do it without...

Right now I have a somewhat awkward workaround. If it ever stops raining I'm going to try going up another 5 feet with my antenna mast. See this thread for the update http://www.satelliteguys.us/digital-over-air-ota/237282-strange-audio-problem-vhf-channels.html

When I bought my SV8000 a little over a year ago I had no satellite dish and used just the ATSC tuner - worked fine - no satellite signal necessary. I would guess that the Dish and DirecTV receivers are set up differently to try to force people to subscribe to their services but I don't know for...

The Sonicview 8000HD has PVR capability with an external hard drive - total cost around $200 if you find a deal on a used one, not sure of the new price, and no subscription fees. Mine does fine for OTA ATSC signals and for satellite stuff too. The recording format is .ts I think - I never...

TV – LG 32LD450 32-Inch 1080p 60 Hz LCD HDTV Antenna – ChannelMaster 2018 Pre amp – Winegard AP8700 Audio - Onkyo HT-S3300 5.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver and Speaker Package Bought this TV as it was reasonably priced for a full HD (1080i) set and the 32” size was the largest that...

Harry; I just checked and I'm using version 4.43 firmware - don't remember where I got it but you should be able to google it. This one gave me the best OTA performance with this box. It finds almost every channel that my TV finds, only failing to scan in the local PBS station for some reason -...

Update; I replaced the coax between the drop amp and the TV and the audio problems are almost gone. One of the two channels works fine now and the dropouts on the other are nearly gone. I have a new mast mounted preamp on order and will replace the rest of the coax when I install that. Fingers...

Bought a new 32" LG HDTV last week and it works great except for one mysterious quirk - the audio stumbles or hiccups on two of the OTA channels I get. The other OTA channels work fine as do the feeds from my Roku and my Sonicview HD8000. If I use the ATSC tuner on the Sonicview and feed it to...

I'm thinking of replacing my 27" CRT TV with a 32" LCD set. I have a Sonicview 8000HD I plan to use with it and that has PVR capability but I wonder if any of the manufacturers offer a TV with the PVR capability built in, either via a USB port for an external HDD like the Sonicview has, or with...

When I watch "Lost" on ABC I've noticed that it runs 2 minutes past the hour, i.e. it's on from 9:00PM to 10:02PM. I haven't noticed any other shows that do this - just wondering if this is meant to discourage people from changing to another channel at 10:00 (as they'll miss either the first 2...

Saw an announcement in this morning's paper that Comcast is buying KNSD, the San Diego NBC channel. A quick web search shows that Comcast has been trying to buy NBC Universal for a while and that KNSD is owned directly by NBC. Anyone know if this is part of that deal? Wonder how long it will be...

I'm using a Sonicview 8000HD which is an FTA receiver but also has an ATSC tuner. It has a USB port that works with an external hard drive as a PVR.

I have 3 OTA ATSC receivers, one a Sonicview 8000HD and two Sansonic SD converter boxes. I noticed last night that my PVR on the Sonicview started a recording well before the time it was set to start. Further investigation suggests that the OTA stations are not all transmitting the correct time...

Response from Shop4FTA Here's what the dealer has to say about the SV 8000 HD's OTA capabilities. Seems the ads need to be updated. Also the website they list in the email doesn't seem to respond to inquiries... Anyway, here's the email response in its entirety -- do not edit -- John, Our...

There is a thread on the SV 8000 on the FTA forum. Look over there for details. Long story short, a firmware update helped.

Yesterday I installed a drop amp, a PCT-MA2-2P I bought from Amazon. It is an 11db boost dual port amp. I connected the antenna to the input port and power to the power port (it comes with an AC adapter for the power). I hooked up one output port to the SV 8000HD and the other to the Sansonic...