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i put a unit on the roof, its about 5' wide 4' long i get 17 channels. i think i should get more judging by the search results. is the antenna quality bad to small? what about the ones sold at Menards for example?
(made by rca) what make the DB8 so good? or a winguard?
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What makes an antenna a good antenna?
1. It must be designed to receive the frequencies of interest.
2. For each channel of interest, it must have sufficient gain to recover enough signal power to provide an acceptable signal to noise ratio.
3. It must be able to reject signals that would interfere with reception of signals of interest.
4. It's design and construction should be such that it provides long service life.
5. It's cost should be appropriate given the previously stated requirements.
No two receiving locations are identical. No one antenna design is ideal in all applications.
Among the regular contributors, there is a bias toward those manufactures that provide sound technical information about their products, information that has proven reliable and can be verified independently. There is a consistent effort to offer antenna suggestions which match the predicted signal conditions. Mistakes can be made. Often there can be more than one good choice. There can be unknown factors that lead to good intentions failing to provide all that was hoped for.
Can you give us the model number of the antenna that you just installed?
Which 'real' channels are you missing?
