OT: What is the best antenna for getting Phoenix area TV channels?

[Eric Shubert]

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 at shubes.net 
> <mailto:ejs at 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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>     -Eric 'shubes'
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