Pointing the antenna correctly does make a difference

[Username1]

Dav; My parents live very near Ridgewood, and they get everything with rabbit ears and a UHF bow-tie attached to one of the rabbit ears... So that antenna on wa2's house, is way overkill for that area. I would say his problem is too much antenna and its picking up lots of multi-path from the buildings... It should be up higher as well, where it is its just getting more multi-path...

And I'm saying this because its ATSC, it may have been great for analog..

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Username1

... So that antenna on wa2's house, is way overkill for that area. I would say his problem is too much antenna and its picking up lots of multi-path from the buildings... It should be up higher as well, where it is its just getting more multi-path...
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Lots of signal here, but as I have a 4 way splitter that then feeds 4 rooms around the house, some runs of cable 60 feet. All cable is RG6, used to be RG59. I'm on the top of a hill, and if not for trees I could see the Empire State Building. I figure an oversize antenna is better than amplifiers, in theory no intermod except in TV front ends. Back in the analog days we got 27mV of channel 4. And there is a low VHF station in NYC, WKOB, on RF channel 2, 300 watts. Virtual channel 42. I doubt you could receiver it 75 miles out, though. One of their subchannels is a Jesuscaster, another is a Mohamedcaster.