DTV antennas?

From: Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:45:58 -0700

Ok, guys, as predicted it's the pits. Digital TV cutting in and out at random because of multipath and other disturbances. Analog never does that, it simply performs better. But it's almost gone :-(

Besides the fact that newer antennas should have their UHF section tuned to Ch51 instead of Ch69, what other caveats are there? I have seen some weird scenarios, like UHF-only yagis mounted vertically. AFAIK the transmitter antennas are supposed to be horizontal. Of course those simple FCC station lists say nothing about that, or much else for that matter.

I wish the situation improves when DTV partially migrates to VHF. At least then we could see the news.

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