On 29/01/2007, at 3:33 PM, Martin Hill wrote:
On 28/01/2007, at 3:04 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
1. Is there a way of verifying that EyeTV will perform as well as
the settop box in this known poor reception area?
I've found the EyeTV hardware to generally be as good as the
digital set-top boxes we had previously. Originally our analog
reception was very poor and when we first got a digital set-top
box, the signal kept breaking up and glitching until we got a new
antennae and I re-cabled with RG-6 "digital-ready" coax cable from
the antennae to the box. (the old cable was rusted and connected
on only one strand.)
Further to that , after my experience with an antennae lead there
are things to be learnt
about terminating the cable ends .
Cable normally has an inner core covered by nylon then a copper mesh
with finally
a very thin metal wrap before the outer plastic jacket .
The lead needs two connections .... the core ... and the metal
wrap or copper mesh .
Since the metal wrap and the copper mesh are continuously in contact
with each other
it would seem that using the metal wrap would be good and
sufficient. ..
NOT SO in my case . I was finally pushed to re terminate all ends of
my cables
and this time chose to fold back the mesh across the metal wrap and
use the mesh as the contact point.
Previously channel 31 was hopeless , and not useable !
Now it's a quite good picture plus all the other channels are much
better.
SO , if you have POOR reception visit all the ends of your aerial
cable and re terminate them .
You have nothing to lose .
Bob
