OTA/58 HD in Jackson

[pontiac94]

Hello;

I helped a friend this past spring install DirecTV and antenna to receiver local HD.  He is located a few miles east of Hwy 45.  Everything went great, received all local station is HD. Now over the past two months CBS HD is coming "pixelated"...i mean a picture is there and the sound is fine but there are digital blocks wrecking the picture.  Antenna hasn't moved, house hasn't moved, checked all wiring and connections.  Any Ideas???

[dlhoppe]

Could be tree foliage.  You may also want to re-aim the antenna. It may not look like it moved, but it's possible some high winds may have tweaked the mount ever so slightly.  With a low-power signal, it wouldn't take much to bring down your signal level in the receiver.

[pontiac94]

According to my Samsung SIRtS160 I have a signal strength of 93%-100%.  The sound is fine, no breakups. The picture is pixelated, as wierd as it may sound this happens more at bottom half of the screen.

[tazman]

I am also in Jackson and I also have those rare days where I have problems with 58-1.  I have tried tweeking the antenna but no luck.  Then a few hours later it comes in just fine.  Sounds to me more like atmospheric conditions that affect most everyone.  Possibly a signal bouncing in from somewhere else and causing interference.  Just a thought the next time it happens try tunning in 46 analog and see if there is a distant analog station possibly comming in.  That would definately mess up our digital 46.