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What's the condition of your TV antenna?

Posted by blue_z (A) on March 17, 2009 at 18:09:26

In Reply to: HD Video Receivers posted by Bahr on March 15, 2009 at 16:00:46:

Hi there

> I'm using a directional HD ROOF antenna pointed towards the towers that are about 8 miles away

How old is your TV antenna?
Is it securely mounted (i.e. does it sway in the wind)?
If it's a Yagi antenna, are all the elements in place?
Are the downlead (should be coax) connections weatherproofed and not corroded?
How big is the antenna? If it has too much gain, you might be overloading the tuner input.

Reception problems specific to a few channels are typically not caused by the tuner, unless those channels are correlated by band, e.g. VHF-low or -high or UHF.

BTW there is no such device as an "HD(TV) antenna". That's just marketing hype for an ordinary TV antenna. There are some new antenna models appearing that are optimized for the post-transition UHF and VHF bands.

Regards

• No Such Thing As an HDTV Antenna!   (Open in New Window)

Edits: 03/17/09 03/17/09

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