This is going to be a bigger problem than many stations may have anticipated. A friend of mine has an all-channel antenna on a rotor and can get 20 analog stations. He purchased a converter to see what he could get in digital. He can only get four, and three of those pixilate quite badly. Almost everything has gone to UHF here. My area is in the fringe of two markets. UHF doesn't work as well in the hills. I doubt translators will be implemented -- too much money.
Chuck ----- Original Message ----- From: <n...@no6b.com> To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Somewhat OT - an interesting antenna design > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
