<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 24, 2007, at 8:30 AM, James Oltman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br><br>Try it without an amp. It amplifies noise as well as signal you want.<br>I've never had better reception with one.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"> mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Brad,<br><br>Earlier last week, the antenna was plugged into the amp and the HDHR was also plugged in. However, the amp wasn't on (ie, it had no power to it). I gather that this is the same thing as removing the amp from the equation. If not, I can try directly plugging into the antenna. What do you think? <br><br>Jim</blockquote><br></div><div>Turning it off is probably good enough. With the amp off and the antenna in the correct direction you'll probably have better luck with signal.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>