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Old 22-Sep-2013, 2:20 AM   #1
davidlukewilcox
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Helping My Parents With Receiving OTA Reception

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...46ae4e30bafd09

Hi,

My folks saw my recent success in setting up over the air TV in my house and solicited a bit of help for their house. Their TVR is above. My post is here: http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=13509

They are considerably south from I am. They could point at the same large transmitters that I'm pointing at, but those are 70 miles away for them, and the noise level is considerably worse.

However, I noticed that they have some transmitters that are 6-7 miles away that look to be retransmitting the same stuff that's 70 miles north. I took some of the callsigns and found this http://www.rabbitears.info/market.ph...allsign=182174. It has the callsigns for each of the stations that are closer they seem to be retransmitting what is 70 miles north.

My question is: Why don't these stations appear with callsigns on TVFool? Are these truly retransmissions?

We have an extra ANT751R that we plan on trying to set up outside, pointing at the transmitter 6.6 miles west and seeing what we get. I know that a lot of people here are quite negative of the ANT751R. Do you think these efforts are fruitless? It seems like these signals are strong enough that we should be able to get them. They seem very valuable if they are truly retransmissions of network stations. Should we point at the transmitter 6.6 miles west or the one 70 miles north? Any other advise?
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