[Cialug] [OT] Digital TV

[Jerry Heiselman]

I first bought a digital antenna from Best Buy (
http://www.amazon.com/Terk-Low-Profile-Indoor-Antenna-TV5/dp/B000069106).  I
got around 70-80% signal strength.  It seemed okay, but it would cut out
very frequently.  Then I watched a segment on Make: Television about
building your own (
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/maker_workshop_pdf_dtv_antenna.html).
 With this new antenna mounted in my attic, I now get 90-100% signal
strength except for Fox which comes in around 85.  I also put the antenna
feed into a splitter/combiner and combined it with the cable from the
Mediacom feed (I am not a subscriber, but the feed is still attached to the
signal tap outside my house).  This then feeds into my TV.  This seems to
have seriously stabilized the signal.
http://www.antennaweb.org is a great resources for helping you decide on a
type of antenna and how to point a directional antenna.
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