[mythtv-users] Semi-OT - Dual TV antennas

[Brian Wood]

On Friday 21 August 2009 15:42:31 Craig Treleaven wrote:

> I think Brian has overstated the difficulties, somewhat.  DigitalHomeCanada
> has an excellent FAQ on the subject and quite a number of the members there
> use two (or more!) antennas.

I agree I was probably overly-pessimistic, but I have seen many cases of home 
users spending time and money fooling around with this sort of thing and 
winding up worse off than when they started.

Multiple antennas can be a good solution for some specific situations, but can 
be difficult to implement, requiring very exacting construction and setup.

It also depends a lot of where the various stations you want to receive are, a 
single off-axis station is a simple example, but the OP is talking about 
local stations with probable multi-path and non-line of site problems.

To the OP: I used to live in Peterborough, we had a lot of fun getting CITY in 
TO from there, this being back in the 70s, before the CN tower was 
operational.

I recall one evening when CITY had some sort of local news show that referred 
to Trudeau as a "silly asshole", which I though was unfair, or at least 
wrong.

I still say TO is the cleanest city in North America.


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Brian Wood
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