At 2/19/2009 18:08, you wrote: >Along these same lines.... > >Has anyone on this list built / put into practice a Gray-Hoverman panel >antenna? How do they perform? Is it worth building one? Double or single? >http://www.casano.com/projects/hoverman/index.html > >I'm about 70 miles from my target DTV market. (Pittsburgh, PA) NOBODY here >can seem to get the Pittsburgh ABC affiliate with their current V/U antenna >setups. (WTAE4) I have some people that I am helping get their converter >boxes hooked up and working. They are VERY disappointed that they won't be >able get their news from channel 4 once DTV has gone into full effect. (They >DO have one of the areas BEST news teams - in my opinion.)
The center of the map says it all IMO: A4 - D51. Would be nice if they backfilled ch. 4 after the cutover, but I think the channel #s on the map indicate the final assignment. >I'm wondering if a dedicated UHF panel and good UHF only preamp will help >the situation. I think all you can do is go for max. gain @ ch. 51 & hope the problem isn't multipath; if it is you're SOL unless you go WAY up in the air with the antenna. Stacked Yagis might get the job done @ ch. 51, but then you'd need another antenna for the other channels. Don't know if a parabolic would be broadband enough - depends on the type of feed & if the aperture (diameter) is large enough to work reasonably at the lowest DTV channel. Bob NO6B
