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Old 4-Feb-2011, 10:44 PM   #20
bbarr
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The rotor idea with a smaller antenna is beginning to sound more enticing. My wife has a problem with a large antenna on the roof and I still have to check out our HOA rules. Personally I would like to put a large antenna up. The bigger the better!

I wouldn’t mind getting the CW channel (would this complicate the antenna selection with the low 2.1 VHF frequency?) occasionally and the Austin broadcasts. I would primarily watch the San Antonio channels most of the time. I played around with the balloon thingy. Only after I switched the map to hybrid could I zoom in and use the features. I just find that out today. I realize now that LOS and EDGE1 and EDGE2 lets me know if I have a direct signal hit. I’m not sure what the difference is between edge 1 and 2 but I seem to still get a pretty strong signal… noise wise. I guess since the hills around here aren’t THAT tall it isn’t such a big deal in general.

I’ve got a neighbor tree issue also. Not sure how much that might affect my noise dBs. But I can see by putting the antenna on the 2nd story part of the house helps out on the line of site to more of my station towers in SA.

Thanks for everybody’s help. This stuff is somewhat complicated.
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