Forum: Help With Reception
20-Dec-2020, 4:56 PM
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Forum: Help With Reception
19-Dec-2020, 11:09 PM
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Replies: 16
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Apologies for necro-ing this thread, but I just...
Apologies for necro-ing this thread, but I just recently got my antenna back up and running with a new pre-amp, and WSB is still problematic on my end.
This channel was by far the most troublesome...
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Forum: Help With Reception
18-Oct-2020, 1:49 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 41,253
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Forum: Help With Reception
17-Oct-2020, 7:13 PM
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Replies: 12
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Well, rats.
I settled on the KT-700, as...
Well, rats.
I settled on the KT-700, as there is a cell tower pretty close by. It arrived in the mail; I went up on the roof today to get it hooked up. Connected the coax in the proper places,...
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Forum: Help With Reception
11-Oct-2020, 3:48 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 41,253
Oh, the Kitztech looks like just the ticket....
Oh, the Kitztech looks like just the ticket. Costs more...but not exorbitant, and looks well worth it. I especially like the weatherproof enclosure, promising excellent protection while requiring no...
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Forum: Help With Reception
11-Oct-2020, 1:23 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 41,253
If a resistor went out on the power supply at...
If a resistor went out on the power supply at some point and started feeding the pre-amp with too much power, that would have hastened its demise at least...but this RCA TVPRAMP provided me over five...
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Forum: Help With Reception
10-Oct-2020, 9:02 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 41,253
Thanks for the reply. It's been a minute...
Thanks for the reply. It's been a minute (continues to be a strange and difficult year), but I finally got round to borrowing a voltmeter and checking it out.
The meter reads 18VDC being sent down...
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Forum: Help With Reception
29-Jun-2020, 6:31 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 41,253
No signal; preamp needs replacing?
Back in the fall of 2014, the good folks of this forum helped me get together an antenna (HBU44) and pre-amp (TVPRAMP-1R) setup that has provided excellent service...
...up until one day earlier...
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Forum: Help With Reception
20-Dec-2014, 11:33 PM
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Replies: 2
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Forum: Help With Reception
19-Dec-2014, 3:33 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 12,975
Channels dropping out at night
With the help of the good folks of this forum (and a friend who's a whole lot handier than I am), I got set up back in September with an Antennacraft HBU44 antenna and RCA TVPRAMP-1R preamp. I'm...
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Forum: Help With Reception
15-Sep-2014, 5:22 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 18,924
After-action report:
We got the antenna...
After-action report:
We got the antenna mounted to the chimney and grounded with #8 copper wire running to the house's ground rod (we got a grounding block connected to the ground rod as well)....
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Forum: Help With Reception
14-Sep-2014, 3:26 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 18,924
I have a good progress report, as well as...
I have a good progress report, as well as questions related to grounding.
My friend and I got started on the installation project this morning, but then thunderstorms came into the area and we had...
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Forum: Help With Reception
12-Sep-2014, 10:49 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 18,924
Okay, the equipment arrived, and I'm getting...
Okay, the equipment arrived, and I'm getting ready to install tomorrow.
I am a little puzzled by the settings on the RCA TVPRAMP-1R...and I seem to remember reading (in the Amazon reviews,...
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Forum: Help With Reception
8-Sep-2014, 5:51 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 18,924
Thanks again for all the help in this thread.
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Thanks again for all the help in this thread.
I will be ordering the HBU44 antenna and TVPRAMP-1R pre-amp, since each is considerably cheaper right now than the HD7698P and 10G201 respectively,...
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Forum: Help With Reception
28-Aug-2014, 9:04 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 18,924
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Forum: Help With Reception
28-Aug-2014, 7:14 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 18,924
Thanks for the helpful replies. These antennas...
Thanks for the helpful replies. These antennas look a bit bigger than I was expecting...I'll have to double-check the neighborhood covenants to make sure I wouldn't be violating some rule by having...
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Forum: Help With Reception
27-Aug-2014, 4:24 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 18,924
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