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New To HD - Meno Falls

Started by DBL, Sunday Dec 05, 2004, 09:53:29 AM

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DBL

Looking for some recomendations, I just purchased a
Sony KDF50WE655 LCD HD TV with dual tuners.
I have direct TV with TIVO and have no plans to upgrade to HD Direct tv until local stations are offered. So that being said , I would like to connect the Sat to one tuner and a OTA ant to the other. According to the TV manual this can be done.

Here is the question any recomendations for an Indoor Ant. Or an Attic mounted Ant. ?
Prefer indoor (less work)

Location MENO Falls 2 story home (TV Located on first floor)
East of Pilgrim Between Appleton and Goodhope Road

Thank you For your help as the new TV arrives in a day or so and I was just trying to get my wiring complete before it came.

Gregg Lengling

There are lots of different antennas you can use.  I use an 8-Bay BowTie and you probably will have good luck with either a 4 or 8 in the attic.  However your mileage may vary when trying to receive the low power stations on digital such as Fox and CBS.

For the Directv input, you set has 3 S-Video inputs and if your Directv box has S-Video output I would use that first rather than using RF to go into channel 2 or 3.  If you don't have S-Video on the box use the Composite audio (analog) to feed it.  You'll have a much better picture using S or Composite versus RF.

Welcome to the group.
Gregg R. Lengling, W9DHI
Living the life with a 65" Aquos
glengling at milwaukeehdtv dot org  {fart}

Den Mayer

I agree that a good attic antenna is a UHF 4 bay bow tie...

    or an 8 bay if you have 'twice the width' room....

  Note that most Milwaukee HD transmissions are UHF...

    THe Channel Master 3021 4 bay ($25) covers UHF chans 14

    thru 59+ very well,  VHF chans 7 thru 13 Good, and

   Poor for VHF chans 2 thru 6....     Low Power FOX-HD

   might force you to an 8 bay bow tie unit ??

    As for antenna cable, use dual shielded RG-6 rather

     than RG-59...        For antenna aiming, I hope you have

   few  home obstructions or features to the East...


      Congratulations on your Sony HDTV purchase...

Chinatown

Where can you buy that antenna?

StarvingForHDTV