[mythtv-users] Semi-OT - Dual TV antennas
Mark
fairlane at springcom.com
Sun Aug 23 01:20:29 UTC 2009
Brian Wood wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Not to hijack, but... lets expand the discussion.
Seems to me this could be an ideal application for multiple cards and
multiple antennas. I have often though of using
something like this with my setup. Run an antenna to a card with no
splitters. Run another antenna to another card with
no splitters. Edit channels so each card only picks up channels in that
direction. I have channels all around me at distance,
so this seemed like a good way to go. Opinions?
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