Forum: Help With Reception
18-Nov-2019, 9:59 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,951
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Forum: Antennas
10-Nov-2019, 1:38 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 6,777
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Forum: Help With Reception
9-Nov-2019, 4:19 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 758
I ran a search at rabbitears.info using an...
I ran a search at rabbitears.info using an estimate of your location. The results I saw suggest you may need to mount as high as 60' AGL to obtain line-of-sight conditions which the ANT751 would do...
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Forum: Enthusiast's Exchange
7-Nov-2019, 6:56 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 5,316
Using crontab for recurring recordings
I also use crontab to schedule recurring recordings. The following example represents my daily newscast recording schedule. I can watch a news cast until it is overwritten by the next scheduled...
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Forum: Help With Reception
30-Oct-2019, 5:56 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 877
Doubling the antennas will in theory double the...
Doubling the antennas will in theory double the total received power... Expressed logarithmicly, that's 3dB. In practice you also have to consider loss in the cabling and combiner network as well as...
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Forum: Help With Reception
29-Oct-2019, 8:51 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 877
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Forum: Enthusiast's Exchange
26-Oct-2019, 2:06 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 5,316
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Forum: Help With Reception
25-Oct-2019, 8:16 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,702
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Forum: TV Fool Discussion / Database Updates
20-Oct-2019, 12:42 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,713
The majority of the Seattle market stations...
The majority of the Seattle market stations moving due to the repack are now up and operating on their post-repack frequencies.
The only exception that I can see as of now is KWDK which is still...
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Forum: Help With Reception
11-Oct-2019, 1:18 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,256
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Forum: TV Fool Discussion / Database Updates
4-Oct-2019, 11:29 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,713
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Forum: Special Topics
29-Sep-2019, 11:25 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 609
I can't think of any reason not to place...
I can't think of any reason not to place insulated wire against pipe or conduit. (I would caution against placing the mast or coax bonding conductor inside metal conduit though. The metal conduit...
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Forum: Special Topics
29-Sep-2019, 5:54 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 609
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Forum: Special Topics
29-Sep-2019, 5:19 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 609
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Forum: TV Fool Discussion / Database Updates
21-Sep-2019, 6:16 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,713
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Forum: TV Fool Discussion / Database Updates
20-Sep-2019, 11:24 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,713
Seattle Area KING-TV
It appears that KING-TV (Virt. Chans. 5.1, 5.2 & 5.3 -- Rea-CH 48) is operating at reduced power and/or on their auxiliary antenna. On 9/19/2019 I began seeing lower raw signal levels reported by my...
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Forum: Enthusiast's Exchange
13-Sep-2019, 12:06 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 10,216
TheFu, Thanks for sharing this. Given the...
TheFu, Thanks for sharing this. Given the hardware transcoding capability of my HDHomeRun EXTEND
(Model: HDTC-2US), I had not considered the need for ffmpeg. Using either the command line or GUI to...
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Forum: Special Topics
25-Aug-2019, 3:48 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,117
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Forum: Antennas
19-Aug-2019, 3:38 PM
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Replies: 49
Views: 44,580
Both...
In a typical residential area with...
Both...
In a typical residential area with above ground poles, you see one or more high voltage lines at the top of the pole. If you look closely, the pole mounted transformer is connected to one...
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Forum: Antennas
19-Aug-2019, 7:11 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 6,777
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Forum: Help With Reception
17-Aug-2019, 6:43 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,675
It appears that your area has an abundance of...
It appears that your area has an abundance of trees. I face the same problem here in the Northwest. Even though simulations predict noise margins for my stations of interest to be in the rage of +41...
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Forum: Antennas
13-Aug-2019, 1:09 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 6,777
I need to get back up to speed with 4NEC2...
I need to get back up to speed with 4NEC2 still... But I expect to prove you right. There are a few things that can be done to broaden the frequency response of an antenna. The first that comes to...
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Forum: Help With Reception
12-Aug-2019, 2:38 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 2,784
If the shades are plastic they will have no...
If the shades are plastic they will have no significant effect on the antenna performance. If they are metallic they will have quite a bit of effect which will be frequency dependent. If the distance...
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Forum: Antennas
12-Aug-2019, 2:06 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 6,777
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Forum: Antennas
11-Aug-2019, 4:18 AM
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Replies: 49
Views: 44,580
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