Forum: Help With Reception
28-Sep-2020, 8:09 PM
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Forum: Help With Reception
27-Sep-2020, 3:53 AM
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Forum: Help With Reception
26-Sep-2020, 2:47 AM
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You most certainly could have a bad balun. A...
You most certainly could have a bad balun. A balun matches the impedence of the antenna to the impedence of the coaxial cable. You could also have a bad connection at the balun. Or at the coaxial...
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Forum: Help With Reception
26-Sep-2020, 12:41 AM
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Forum: Help With Reception
25-Sep-2020, 6:50 PM
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I would certainly start checking your...
I would certainly start checking your connections. Water intrusion into connections and coaxial cable will wreak havoc over time causing oxidation and corrosion. RG6 coaxial connectors should be...
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Forum: Help With Reception
25-Sep-2020, 6:15 PM
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Blackstone,
The RabbitEars link you provided...
Blackstone,
The RabbitEars link you provided pulls up Topeka, KS which is the default location for the signal search map.
Be sure to enter your address in the search box at the bottom left of...
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Forum: Help With Reception
24-Sep-2020, 9:36 PM
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Blackstone,
The signal reports at TV Fool...
Blackstone,
The signal reports at TV Fool are very much out of date. It would be very helpful if you could post a link to your RabbitEars report. You can generate one at this link:...
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Forum: Help With Reception
25-Apr-2019, 2:44 PM
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It is so easy to change out that you could...
It is so easy to change out that you could certainly try it. Most likely it will make no difference, but if it were me (being the curious type) I would certainly give it a try just to see what...
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Forum: Help With Reception
21-Apr-2019, 10:25 PM
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Forum: Help With Reception
19-Apr-2019, 1:48 AM
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BobsGarage,
If there are group members whose...
BobsGarage,
If there are group members whose posts you don't want to see, you can click on their Username, click on User Lists, click on Add to Ignore List.
From then on you will see that they...
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Forum: Help With Reception
18-Apr-2019, 5:49 PM
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Forum: Help With Reception
18-Apr-2019, 5:00 PM
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Forum: Help With Reception
18-Apr-2019, 3:06 AM
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Forum: Help With Reception
17-Apr-2019, 7:47 PM
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Forum: Help With Reception
17-Apr-2019, 6:21 PM
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So is the the inserter/combiner that Blackstone...
So is the the inserter/combiner that Blackstone indicates he had in his antenna system???
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Edit: Never mind, I reread a few times and I understand now. He had the Antennas Direct version of a...
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Forum: Help With Reception
16-Apr-2019, 10:18 PM
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Forum: Help With Reception
16-Apr-2019, 10:06 PM
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The 91XG is an excellent antenna and is what I...
The 91XG is an excellent antenna and is what I use. However, looking at the specs the DB8E actually has a little more gain and a narrower beamwidth. It should be doing just as good or a bit better...
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Forum: Help With Reception
16-Apr-2019, 3:50 AM
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Forum: Help With Reception
15-Apr-2019, 6:11 PM
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Forum: Help With Reception
15-Apr-2019, 5:07 PM
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Blackstone, in an earlier post you said you had...
Blackstone, in an earlier post you said you had the PA18 mounted on the mast of the DB8E and then 3 ft of cable connecting the preamp to the splitter/combiner. You also said the splitter/combiner was...
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Forum: Help With Reception
15-Apr-2019, 4:57 PM
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In an earlier post you stated,
"With only...
In an earlier post you stated,
"With only the channel master, I get no UHF stations.
9 9 WTOV
13 13 WQED
19 11 WPCW"
Looks like you were picking up your high VHF stations with no problem...
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Forum: Help With Reception
15-Apr-2019, 4:46 PM
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Forum: Help With Reception
15-Apr-2019, 2:28 AM
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Forum: Help With Reception
15-Apr-2019, 12:21 AM
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Forum: Help With Reception
14-Apr-2019, 11:40 PM
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OK, great, thanks for answering all the...
OK, great, thanks for answering all the questions. I think the best thing to do at this point is to obtain a UVSJ and rewire your system as I have shown on the bottom of the attached drawing. It will...
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