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Stouffville/Ballantrae - Musselman's Lake
I started by mounting a pair of dual bay antenna on the rear of my house and angling them somewhat arbitrarily. Each dual bay feeds a Motorola signal booster and they are then coupled and sent to a distribution amplifier. This is a list of the channels I can pick up with the antenna now mast mounted just above my roof at about 16 feet.
Also of note is that I am in the valley of Musselman's Lake (a kettle lake). 2-1 (poor - comes in occasionally) 2-2 (poor - comes in occasionally) 3-1 good 4-1 (poor - comes in occasionally) 5-1 good 7-1 (poor - comes in occasionally) 9-1 good 17-1 weak - comes in often 17-2 weak - comes in often 17-3 weak - comes in often 19-1 good 23-1 weak - comes in often 25-1 good 29-1 weak - comes in often 29-2 weak - comes in often 36-1 weak - comes in often 41-1 good 41-2 good 47-1 good 49-1 weak - comes in sometimes 49-2 weak - comes in sometimes 57-1 good 69-1 good All in all I am VERY happy not to be paying cable bills for the drivel they broadcast most of the time. 17-3 is my favorite channel by far! I am contemplating building a second array to split the aim towards the two most populated compass points |
Tv antennas and Tv reception
Are you asking for help with reception?? If so , Do as the other question askers do and , Do This -> http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=4. Use the exact address to make the tvfool radar report. Make the antenna height 16 feet.
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Not asking for help, just reporting what I can pick up.
I noticed that channel 2 does not appear in the listings when I use the tools for signal analysis. I just thought it would be helpful to report all the channels and relative strengths.
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Without the TVFool plot as a reference, the report isn't really relevant since pretty much no one except you knows where you are....
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I don't understand....
After I enter a plot is it saved? Are you referring to the signal analysis tool?
My address is 15 Restnook Lane, Stouffville, Ontario, Canada, L4A 7X3 |
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BTW, you should never ever post your real address on the Internet. The TV Fool Radar plot tool uses your real address, but conceals it from the public. |
Tv antennas and Tv reception
Actually it is a persons choice , a person can post there address if they want to. Every day people put there face and there real name on the internet.
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Meh...
The reason I am over the air now is 2 fold. 1, I don't like the price of cable. It's waaaaay too high. and 2, my ex has taken everything of value so robbing me would be less than fruitful. I don't even have HDTVs. I use el-cheapo converter boxes.
Maybe someone wants my boxers from the clothes line! LOL. Anyway... I must say I am very pleased overall. I get most of the stuff I might choose to watch and the PBS channels are really quite good. |
Tv antennas and Tv reception
Here is the tvfool radar report. http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...d5bc627c041ffc
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Tv antennas and Tv reception
What are the make and model numbers of the , antennas , the motorola amplifiers and the distribution amplifier. As I understand it both antennas and amplifiers are connected on to one coax , 'the on to one coax' , will cause reception problems.
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Here is Boxerfan's report at 20 feet. I went to the trouble of remapping his virtual channels to real, then wnet down the table of the TVFool report to see how his results matched. Overall, his results agree quite well, as all his "good" channels are predicted to have 0 or better Noise Margins. His "weak" and "poor" stations are all 2-edge paths with -12 or worse Noise Margins in the grey part of the table.
Boxerfan, I would say that you are doing as well as you can right now. I seriously doubt that you can significantly improve the reliability of the weak and poor stations - there's just not enough signal to be had. |
Tv antennas and Tv reception
How many Tv's/converter boxes are connected to the antenna set up??
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