The attached picture shows my OTA Antenna when I installed it in May 2014 (used to get 14 channels in the summer and 18 in the winter). Due to a bad ice storm we hade last March it was damaged and took her down for repairs. I didn’t notice the details of my instalation before disassembly and it looks like from the picture the antenna was installed with the left panel tilted forwards the front a bit. Do you notice the same from the picture?
The antenna sit flat now in my garage floor and ready to install. Its made to be installed flat but I may have done the mods to install the left panel tilted. My question: would an antenna like that get a better reception when one panel is tilted or it will make no difference?
Since antennas are rotated to get the best reception, it seems tilting an antenna could do the same if the signal was traveling at an angle to horizontal. Not sure the tilt benefit in reception is worth the complexity of a mechanical tilt feature.
The design of that UHF antenna may allow for fairly wide separation between transmitter sites. You can go here and get a map of transmitter locations relative to your location. It may help you decide how to configure the antenna and where to aim it.
Many years ago, before cable TV, I remember reading a funny item in Reader's Digest. A couple moved into a neighborhood, right next door to a TV repairman (remember those?). When the hubby installed their TV antenna on the roof, he carefully configured it to match his TV repairman neighbor's.
Over coffee with her neighbor a few weeks later, the newcomer wife talked about their horrible TV reception. The TV repairman's wife said, "Our reception has been bad ever since a storm about 6 months ago and I can't get my husband to fix or replace our antenna!"
Back in 2002 I used to buy collectors DVD’s mostly from Europe & Australis and therefore I found and learned how to use the free software DVDShrink and DVD Decrypter which both did an excellent job. These software used to make a new ISO file in Region Free of any DVD movie.
Now I bought another Region2 DVD movie (Where Eagles Dare) but the ISO file remains Region2 which is PAL and not NTSC. Looking at the back of the case of the DVD I just bought it says among other “this DVD is copy Protected” and the DVD’s I bought back in 2002 they don’t have this copy protected sign.
Is it possible that new technology “improved” and DVD’s are now all copy protected? The new DVD plays ok in my computer and I copy the ISO file to a USB, plug it at the back of my TV and I can see the movie there but I still like to have it on a DVD for my collection.
Any ideas how to make the conversion?
I have a Channel Master TV signal amplifier which it has an INPUT from an outside antenna and an OUTPUT which is going to my TV. I have a loose connection somewhere and I want to test if there is continuity between the INPUT/OUTPUT of the amp.
Checking with my ohms meter there is no continuity but I wonder if that’s the proper way to test continuity when we are talking about signals (air waves?) which I assume are different then current.
Whats the proper way to do this test?
Thanks
05-23-23, 07:02 PM
