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I honestly never wanted to set you off or argue with you in the first place...And honestly I could not give a damn about what we are arguing about. You seem to want to argue with people for sport, (many deleted inflammatory posts and threads you've made often for no good reason/not in reply to anything attest to that), and read insult into places where none exists...I'm done arguing with you here as of this post (I've got enough crap in my life/better things to do) next time you dis-respect and insult me (as you've done here) will result in posts disappearing and a posting time out.

Originally Posted by ohohyodafarted

In the first place this thread was a request from a poster about how to split his signal from his antenna to 4 tv sets This thread was not a discussion about the brand of converter boxes to use. If you wanted to be of some help, you should have adressed the poster's original question on how to split his signals properly.

I was not the one who brought up the topic of relative merit of converter boxes; I was merely responding to someone who was. I did not start the change of topic so DON'T accuse me of something I did not do. Topics drift often on VK, and it is generally tolerated unless the OP is bothered by it or the change breaks certain rules.
If you are bothered by topic shifts being allowed/common I suggest you start a separate topic for it.

Originally Posted by ohohyodafarted

Doing name calling now are we??? Gotcha!

Says the one who called me arrogant first!
If I wanted to do name calling there are dozens of good ones that would curl your hair that I can come up with at a moments notice, and choose not to use...What I called you is what you appear to me to be.

Originally Posted by ohohyodafarted

And just where the hell do you get off saying that the choice of construction materials that my neighbor and I used were "SO POOR" ?? Who the F are you to decide what is or is not a proper building material in a given situation. This is another prime example of your arrogant attitude.

Your right Bob, that siding and roof were the perfect choice for preventing multi-path, sorry to question your god-like wisdom. But seriously, if you say that your (and your neighbor's) roof and siding material are CAUSING multipath reception problems then clearly you are stating that it was a poor choice of material for TV reception....I merely summarized it for you.
Perhaps I should not have assumed the initial choice was yours (though your siding looks so good that I'd have never guessed it as being as old as you say), however I'd immagine you could have chosen to replace it with a different less reception impeding siding at some point in the time you've owned the place if you saw value in doing so.

Originally Posted by ohohyodafarted

Any time you refer to someone by name, you are getting personal. You mentioned me by name referencing issues that you had no first hand knowledge about. When you start talking about someone's personal situation, and postulating about things for which you have no first hand knowledge, that qualifies as arrogance.

First off I've done a good bit of traveling with various DTV converters in tow in both the boonies and in high signal strength areas using various antennas (I've even taken a college elective on the subject of antennas), I own and am familiar with the performance of both boxes I mentioned, and am a practicing Electrical Engineer with a degree....I know enough details to make an educated guess of relative signal strength in a region, personally know about relative performance of DTV boxes and antennas, and know field performance of such. I can make a damn good educated guess at what a system can do in a general region...Especially if I grind through the math.
Multi path can occur ANYWHERE (and is assumed to be separate of general average signal strength)...If I had a neighbor that had a roof antenna, and was so inclined, I could put up a small (to the neighbor's knowledge randomly placed) piece of fencing that would jam their TV reception in these conditions through multipath reflection signal cancellation at the antenna. I was using your region as an example of a location close enough to high enough power stations that (ignoring potential multipath) should have enough RF signal strength for a very sensitive DTV box to do well with a bare minimum antenna.
Hell, another member even noted my post about using phone wire as antenna as being a "clever observation" before you inexplicably got but hurt over it...

Originally Posted by ohohyodafarted

And don't ever call me "dude". I am old enough to be your grandfather with worldly knowledge that you won't acquire for another 50 years (if ever). Be respectful of your elders and in the future please refer to me as "sir" or by my proper name.

Yeesh, I was only trying to lighten the mood.
If you can stop being rude and disrespectful by calling me things like arrogant, then mutual respect will naturally follow. I generally respect people (good natured jokes aside), until treated rudely (such as you did in post 10) at which point I respond honestly and to an extent of rudeness that approximately matches what I've received.
Also FYI when older folks claim their experience should be the very last and only word with validity it can and often is seen as a form of arrogance (by those who are younger). I do respect and value the knowledge and opinions of my elders on things they ought to have experience with above some random younger Joe, but I value no one's knowledge above my own (I'll certainly check if told I'm wrong on a fact), and that which is in print...It is my right as an adult American citizen to think, hold oppinions, and value sources of information in any manner I like (just as you have the same right).
I'll also call question to others' facts, knowledge, authority, and sanity, or just ignore them if and where I see fit to do so (on a case by case basis) as is my right as an American. If you don't like where I stand you are free to make a polite logical rebuttal, or a rude one (as long as you understand your rudeness will be justly reflected back like a TV signal off of aluminum ).
I take crap/rudeness from no man, and put up with it only when it suits my interests.

Originally Posted by ohohyodafarted

Instead of commenting on, and jumping to conclusions about things you have no knowledge of, perhaps you should have just asked a simple question "Bob, you are very close to the transmitters, what is the reason you have a need for distribution amps?" That way I could answer you in a detailed informational manner, and you wouldn't be calling me a paranoid jerk who made poor choices of building materials.

Bob I was not concerned with your antenna/amp rig. The way I figured it your system was just pleasant overkill for fun/overkill's/over-engineering's sake...Something I applaud when the one doing so has the resources and desire to do so (as I presume you did).
The goal of my initial statement was merely to state what I feel could be done with a given box in a geographic region with comparable signal strength to what easily obtained info indicates yours ought to be.

Bob! Had you not inexplicably blown up and insultingly called me arrogant and ridiculed me (instead of politely, factually informing me of the difference between my perception/estimation and reality, as you SHOULD have done) I would have never called you a "paranoid Jerk"....The paranoid part is because I can not see what in that initial post could possibly get under your skin at all let alone as badly as it seemed to...So I see that as you making a paranoid projection of a false image of me/my demeanor in your mind onto a neutral, polite post I wrote. I said Jerk because what kind of person tells another they are arrogant and disparages them publicly in such a manor as your post calling me arrogant did?...I think you know the answer.

Originally Posted by ohohyodafarted

Then I guess your name calling and insults toward me qualify this post as provoked by you Tom.

Yes, but it loops back to you since you started the rudeness and provocation, that caused me to respond negatively to you that in turn caused your quoted reply.....You made a gratuitously mean agitating post out of the blue. What kind of reply do you expect from someone who is annoyed at being randomly insulted by you?