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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Hi Stefan!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>After my Comcast bill went up $29 in one month, I decided to start
exploring alternatives.<BR><FONT face="Palatino Linotype"> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Don't blame you! Did the same
here.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">I have an antenna in the storage
area</FONT> <FONT face="Palatino Linotype">(attic for a story-and-a-half
house) which goes to a 4-way splitter to feed the three tuners to my Mythbuntu
Backend. Use a 75Ω terminating resistor on the unused splitter
terminal. I also found I needed a pre-amp to boost the signal
strength. Because the antenna farm is only about 15 miles away I had to
use a Winegard HDP269 to minimize pixellation when the wind blows and the signal
strength suddenly increases/decreases. (Too much signal will cause the AGC
circuits to shut off.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">The Mythbuntu Backend feeds the Mythbuntu
Frontends via the Ethernet network.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">I originally wanted to also use the one
antenna to feed the various TVs for OTA. Didn't quite work! If the
TVs had sufficient signal that overloaded the Mythbuntu Backend; proper signal
levels to the Backend was insufficient for the TVs. I tried various
combinations of amplifiers, attenuators. Ended up getting a second antenna
to feed the TVs; that one also needed a pre-amp due to the 8-way splitter.
(Not all TVs are on the Mythbuntu system.)</FONT></DIV>
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