WISN-DT 34.1 Signal Strength

[StarvingForHDTV]

Ooops, forgot to add that the antenna is not very directional, just like Rees said.  I aimed it in various directions and it didn't seem to mind at all.  Kind of nice not having to be exact with the aiming.

Starving

[drgingras]

I totally agree on the efficiency of this "flyswatter". I've been using the 4221 for over a year. Started out by leaning it against a wall in my basement rec room - got 4-1 at 75%! Being fairly close to the towers, I had to add an omnidirectional for VHF. Couldn't seem to get a wide enough angle for all the analog stations.
Another benefit is extremely low wind resistance. No fears of a windstorm taking it down.

Starving - Even close-in and with CM's UHF pre-amp added, I barely get Faux here. At 50% or so, you're still doing better than most of us

Dave

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I kinda thought that might happen ...

[mnr929rr]

every channel for me comes in just perfect except 12-1(34-1).picture clear and sound very good but very annoying when pic&sound breakup every 15-20seconds.So I bought a rotator for antenna today and I will see how madison abc comes in,And gues what ,comes in perfect,1 flaw, no5.1 sound,I can live with that for now.

[mnr929rr]

 

Originally posted by mnr929rr:
every channel for me comes in just perfect except 12-1(34-1).picture clear and sound very good but very annoying when pic&sound breakup every 15-20seconds.So I bought a rotator for antenna today and I will see how madison abc comes in,And gues what ,comes in perfect,1 flaw, no5.1 sound,I can live with that for now.

I am wrong madison does do 5.1, but only when broadcasting hdtv unlike wisn,wisn broadcasts 5.1 all the time.

[mnr929rr]

I noticed if i weaken my signal,everything seems to be just fine,I put a rotator on my antenna,so know ican control my signal.

[P a u l]

A little tip if you have a pre-amp. If you are cranking up your pre-amp to pick up fox and then switch back to 4 or 12 you might be over-modulating the signal. I know we here at 12 are transmitting at 570,000 watts or 570 kW, Channel 4 is at 1,000,000 watts or 1MW. Fox well I'm not exactly sure what power they are running at...lets say 1,000 watts. So you can see if you are cranking up the gain to pick up fox then you might need to turn it back a bit when you change the channel.