Right. And that's 75 Ohm, not 750 hm (whatever an hm would be!). :)
Eric Cope wrote:
> Two important things
> 1) Where are you located? Many TV channels broadcast from South Mountain
> (east side). If you have a directional antenna, make sure its pointed in
> the correct direction.
> 2) Make sure you are using the correect cable. Improper matching will
> kill you signal. If your antenna requires 75Ohm, use 75Ohm, etc.
>
> Eric
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net
> <mailto:ejs@shubes.net>> wrote:
>
> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > What is the best antenna for getting Phoenix area TV channels?
> >
> > I gave up cable years ago (too much money for too little worth
> > watching). Tried dish and it was no better. For a long time, we
> were
> > getting excellent reception from a simple $4.95 top-of-set antenna,
> > even when we got a new Vizio HD TV a year ago.
> >
> > But recently, the signal for some channels ... especially channel 15
> > ... has become unreliable. Sometimes the signal breaks up and
> > sometimes it goes away entirely.
> >
> > So, I purchased a $50 Philips outdoor antenna and mounted it on a
> > 15-foot tall pole outside. It gets even worse reception than my
> little
> > old $4.95 indoor top-of-set antenna. I've tried moving it to several
> > different locations and tried rotating it to every degree of
> > 360-degrees with no success.
> >
> > So what would the collective PLUG intelligence recommend?
>
> Why do you presume it's the antenna? I'd bet it's the wiring you're
> using. RG6 is best, preferably quad shield, although some dual shield is
> impressive. RG59 won't deliver digital signals effectively, only
> analog. You might find that your set top antenna works fine with RG6
> cable. The antenna simply needs to receive traditional VHF and UHF
> frequencies (channels 8,10,12 are back in the VHF spectrum now).
>
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