[mythtv-users] Antenna.. too good to be true?

Travis Tabbal travis at tabbal.net
Sun Feb 7 18:30:34 UTC 2010


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:09 AM, <bhaskins at chartermi.net> wrote:

> Has anyone on the list tried this one?
> Yeh, I know that there is one born every mnute, but could it be better than
> my attic-mounted quad bow-tie or would it worth it to build the quad up to a
> dual quad?.
>
>
> http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=109&cp_id=10901&cs_id=1090102&p_id=4730&seq=1&format=1#largeimage
>
> Yeh, I know that there is one born every minute but could it be better than
> my attic-mounted quad bow-tie or would it worth it to build the quad up to a
> dual quad?.
> Thanks,
>


I tried it a while back. It didn't work well at all and I'm only 13 miles
from the transmitters with LOS. I tried it on the roof and indoors, even
with an attenuator. I suspect the amp is low quality and produces too much
noise. Switching to a DB4 on the roof made a huge difference.
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