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

German Rodriguez callmegar at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 02:58:58 UTC 2010


I got one and is pretty good,  the only problem is with the VHF
channels, they don't get detected automatically, and when you tune
them, sometimes they show a kind of unable to get lock message, but
right after that they show just fine.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:22 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>
> On Feb 7, 2010, at 7:09 AM, <bhaskins at chartermi.net>
> <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?.
>
> I'm not an antenna expert.  That said, with gain antennas bigger is almost
> always better.  This is physically smaller than your quad bow-tie so I doubt
> it will do any better.  Any improvement would probably come from the
> low-noise amplifier, and there's no reason you couldn't just amplify your
> quad bow-tie instead.
>
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