Cold and reception?

[menelfloss]

I bought a pair of Sony Bravia's two weeks ago and hooked em up to the same antenna I have used for twenty years in my attic.
Shazam, they pulled in all the locals HD perfect. Boy was I happily surprised.

The weather got warm (about 30 degrees F) and two of the stations began getting intermittent reception choppiness and then went out all together. The signal would bounce down to 40 and up to 65.

Now we are in another cold snap (it has been below zero for over 50 hours) and the reception is fine for the same two channels.

Is this a known or common phenomenon?

Mike in Minneapolis

 

[Peter Parker]

I had that with ccable several years back and my cable comapny told me that they did not believe me and would not senda crew. MY guess is that the connectors are contracting and causing a better connection. You might want to check them all.

 

[menelfloss]

Could be. It is pretty cold in the attic these days. I will check some time when it warms up a bit.

Huh...
Mike

 

[NightHawk]

Your situation is common. Bitter cold is great for OTA and it's mostly due to complex propagation effects, very dry air and lower noise figures for outdoor amplifiers.