[BC] OTA TV makes a big jump.

[Mike McCarthy]

I believe there is an uneducated populace out there, including many 
installers, who fail to realize antenna installation quality is critical 
to DTV reception.  Good quality RG6 (not 59) is needed along with 
linearized pre-amps and low distortion/group delay splitters.  I think 
many problems associated with OTA reception are mis-attributed to poor 
allocation/transmission,  antenna design or application and not the 
total installation.

Once the CBS station here lights up it's TV26 allocation to replace it's 
Ch. 12 interim slot, the large V/U will come off the roof.  The question 
then becomes what to put up there.....

MM

On 6/20/2012 9:33 AM, Eric Adler wrote:
> As with Robert, we've had great success with bowties throughout our coverage area.  We even had one home that we visited that was able to use a single- or two-bay bowtie (it's been a while, but I know it was definitely not a 4-bay or larger, it had little feet to stand up) _indoors_ to receive all of the local stations (abt. 7 miles line-of-sight due South -- two UHF, two high-VHF [7,8]) as well as at least one station from the next market West (roughly 50 miles).
> We also have some viewers between markets that are able to receive stations from both markets but I haven't kept track of the antenna solutions they use.  Even if I were keeping track, many use a rooftop antenna that they had someone else install for them so they don't know exactly what it is.  Of course, I've also heard of a variety of interesting solutions to the TV reception issue for viewers beyond the our 'fringe' coverage but, with our hilly/mountainous terrain, somewhere just a few miles away could take more work to receive us than somewhere 75 miles away.
>
> Eric