What type of antenna do you have for HDTV

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Have you experimented with different gauge wire for the array? </blockquote>


It's the design of the array that makes it work. There is no current through this device, so the gauge isn't critical. I bet you could make it at 1/2 or 1/4 scale size and it'd still work....and since Direct TV expanded their local HD coverage, I don't use it anymore.



[quote author="bkshopr" date=1258781193]No Vas is different.



He likes to make things from scratch like building his car, making his attennas, planting his own food and harvesting his nuts.</blockquote>


Before I moved to SoCal, I even mowed my own lawn. There is a certain satisfaction in doing things yourself, particularly when you want them done a certain way, but sometimes it?s out of necessity (somebody else won?t do it the way you want it). Today I filled my own LP tanks by myself (the horror!) and helped my dad set up a root knife on a tractor before I came home ? and I did it in the same clothes I wore to my Aunts house for Thanksgiving lunch. I have real talent because I didn?t get dirty.



But harvesting nuts? We hire that done. Here?s how they get them off the tree -



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Sweeping them into wind rows -



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And here?s how they pick them up -



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[quote author="EvaLSeraphim" date=1258871881]Try doing a rescan of each of the channels. That seems to fix the problem for us.</blockquote>
I don't understand how that going to fix the problem.... isn't rescanning the channels just make the TV add the frequency (which is from a lookup table, I guess) to the channel list? It is not like the station changed its frequency in the middle of the broadcasting or something <confused>
 
[quote author="Astute Observer" date=1258898291][quote author="EvaLSeraphim" date=1258871881]Try doing a rescan of each of the channels. That seems to fix the problem for us.</blockquote>
I don't understand how that going to fix the problem.... isn't rescanning the channels just make the TV add the frequency (which is from a lookup table, I guess) to the channel list? It is not like the station changed its frequency in the middle of the broadcasting or something <confused></blockquote>


You are making it re-tune into the channels. The transmission frequency does not change but your cheap tuner may have drifted. Alternatively, there could be a source of noise that is interfering with the signal. You should use the signal meter (built in) to gauge the quality of your reception.
 
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I know you guys like to start fires with 2 sticks to prove yourselves. Or.



You could try the modern method and spend $ 50.00

Star Trek HDTV setup from the Shack. We have one for the office TV. Works great.

Remote control, Amplified, Directional.



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i used to have this, but never could get channel 7 in HD. is it just me?
 
You are not alone. Channel 7, unlike other HD channels in our area, is not on UHF, so you need a VHF antenna to get good reception. I use a regular telescoping rods, and it works pretty well. For the RS antenna you have, you need to pull the two telescoping rods all the way out (IIRC, there are two on the back of the antenna ?).
 
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