a friend of mine in Huntington, wv zip code 25702 is using a radio shack uhf vhf fm outdoor antenna that installed for her just as the digital change was happening.
she has two converter boxes and a digital lcd tv.
i am using a mast mounted blonder tongue amp then running RG6 Quad into a three way splitter (one port power passing)for powering the amp.
antenna is 20 feet off the ground and pointed east toward the stations.
I have a perfect lock and 100% signal on all the local digitals:
3.1
3.2
8.1
11.1
13.1 (High Vhf 213 mhz)
13.2 " "
29.1-4
30.1
30.2
44.1
problem is i can't lock 33.1-3 that is our local pbs that is in the same direction.
Nothing i do changes it.
i used to lock it fine with 60-70 quality on those cheap converter boxes.
i think pbs lowered power or something.
i lost them at home too and had to install a winegard 9058 p UHF high gain yagi
and that solved the problem. My vu120r radio shack didn't cut it anymore for WPBY-33.1-3
She didn't want to spend 130.00 for a winegard so i found an antennacraft mxu 59 that has a 100cm boom and looks somewhat comparable to the winegard for 50.00.
do you guys think this may help the problem?
i can use a vhf uhf band splitter and use her existing antenna for vhf input (13.1/13.2) since the antennacraft is uhf only. thats what i did here. my vu120r is just bandpassed for vhf and my winegard gets all the uhf stuff.
she has two converter boxes and a digital lcd tv.
i am using a mast mounted blonder tongue amp then running RG6 Quad into a three way splitter (one port power passing)for powering the amp.
antenna is 20 feet off the ground and pointed east toward the stations.
I have a perfect lock and 100% signal on all the local digitals:
3.1
3.2
8.1
11.1
13.1 (High Vhf 213 mhz)
13.2 " "
29.1-4
30.1
30.2
44.1
problem is i can't lock 33.1-3 that is our local pbs that is in the same direction.
Nothing i do changes it.
i used to lock it fine with 60-70 quality on those cheap converter boxes.
i think pbs lowered power or something.
i lost them at home too and had to install a winegard 9058 p UHF high gain yagi
and that solved the problem. My vu120r radio shack didn't cut it anymore for WPBY-33.1-3
She didn't want to spend 130.00 for a winegard so i found an antennacraft mxu 59 that has a 100cm boom and looks somewhat comparable to the winegard for 50.00.
do you guys think this may help the problem?
i can use a vhf uhf band splitter and use her existing antenna for vhf input (13.1/13.2) since the antennacraft is uhf only. thats what i did here. my vu120r is just bandpassed for vhf and my winegard gets all the uhf stuff.
