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stainless
09-10-2005, 09:26 PM
Do they make an outdoor antenna yet that supports HDTV AND mounts to a sattelite dish? If not, is there a reason for this, It seams it would be a very convinient way to mount an HD antenna and not look to tacky.
Can anyone recomend a good indoor antenna that might work in a basement? I have had a terk HD antenna mounted in the attick of my garage and my HD signal always cuts in and out and I cant seam to get all the OTA HD channels either. I live in Minneapolis so Im not to far from any towers.
hdtvtechno
09-10-2005, 11:10 PM
First, any old analog antenna will work with HDTV signals, there are no special antenna for HDTV, its just marketing tactics.
Ratman
09-11-2005, 07:25 AM
Clip on antennas that mount on a dish are usually quite ineffective.
The best option is a traditional antenna. Fortunately, many digital channels are UHF and therefore use smaller antennas that don't look very 'tacky'
Check www.antennweb.org for distance/direction and channel assignments. Cut and paste the results here and we can provide some recommendations.
mjones73
09-11-2005, 08:36 AM
If all your digital locals are in the UHF band and under like 30-35 miles, check out the Square Shooter line, they look nice mounted with a dish..
Back side of mine -> http://www.hdtvoice.com/voice/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=523&size=big&sort=1&cat=500
I had that mounted that way for about a year, just took it down, I'm 40 miles from my locals and it was having problems during the summer with drop outs so I upgraded to a ChannelMaster 4228.
TheDreamer
09-17-2005, 10:47 AM
When I first setup HDTV, I found that my plain old rabbit ears (and it was missing the UHF loop) worked better than the Terk TV5 that I had gotten with my tuner.
Though, I currently use a Silver Sensor.
The Dreamer.
stainless
09-18-2005, 11:27 AM
Just wanted to thank all of you for your help. I would have responded sooner but I was unable to log in for about 1 week. I tried a few different antenna styles and nothing worked very well, kept dropping signal. Im on day 2 with the TERK square antenna like one of the members above recomended and it's been working great. Thanks again
