OTA antennas(merged with Voom and the OTA antenna)

[tmdb]

Sorry to have to post this twice but I'm not sure the first one went through.

I am still having OTA reception problems after having my second antenna installed a few weeks ago (first was a Stealth, second was a Winegard). My next install is scheduled in a couple of weeks and Installs Inc. says they are bringing out a Channel Master omni-directional 3000 SMARTenna to solve my problems (I have stations in two different directions, all about 20-25 miles away). Two different guys at Radio Shack say I should just put up two antennas with a combiner facing in the two directions I need. Anybody ever have a similar problem? Which do you think will work better? Also, Installs Inc. now is telling me that a company called Signal Finders will be doing the work. Anyone ever hear of them?

Moderator Note: Merged with Voom and the OTA antenna thread

 

[occammd]

You may want to use a jointenna not just a combiner. Depends upon the frequencies.

 

[Technut]

try this thread click here . I added a 26db radioshak amp to help pull in other a channel at the opposite angle my setup
but dont know if this fixes your particular problem, i have 3 stb and i only get all my locals on 1 set . VOOM is still trouble shooting the prob

Mr. C

 

[Neutron]

Which model RCA 52" do you have? I have the D52W20. Does your HD picture look a little grainy? Did you have to adjust the geometry of your screen after getting Voom installed? I did because my picture was off to the left by about 1/4 of an inch.

 

[Technut]

Rca D52w20

Which model RCA 52" do you have? I have the D52W20. Does your HD picture look a little grainy? Did you have to adjust the geometry of your screen after getting Voom installed? I did because my picture was off to the left by about 1/4 of an inch.

I have the exact same TV, I love it, some HD and SD do look grainy but i think that has to do with more in the way the show was filmed, like on the Voom exclusives where they start with a 35 MM converted film, but true HD signals are amazing (HBO, ESPNHD, TDCHD, MOOV love TANK HD, many others .
Have you the Convergence on the set to dial in the coloring, rca recommends to due it on every input and every time tv is moved and on first power up, I was having the same problem with my DVI connection,(left shift of menus) my composite connection was fine, during my last OTA local "tuning" we changed the diplex on the back of the unit (to a motorola) it fixed that problem. I had called voom about it before and said they were fixing the bug soon and they knew the motorola stb menu for shifting picture and menu alingnment was not working, Try maybe switching diplexers. do you have any problems picking up locals?

My voom setup

MR.C

 

[Neutron]

I ended up going into the service menu on the RCA and shifting the H-setting over to the right. I have it hooked up on the DVI port as my 2 components (CMP1 and CMP2) are taken by DVD and Xbox respectively. Reworking the geometry didn't affect the other inputs at all.

My OTA channels come in fine!! All are at 90-93% I get every single one of them. One thing I don't like is how during the day the stuff that's not in HD has those annoying black pillar bars on the sides.

I did notice that it's the movie channels that are upconverted to HD that look a little grainy. Maybe it isn't the TV after all. The other stuff looks AWESOME!

I did do the auto convergance and it did it's little thing. I have done that on every input. I never have to do the blue or red convergance as those are already perfect.

I've thought about seperating the cables to Voom and OTA but I have the Winegard GS-2000a and I don't have the power amp for it. Not sure how good it will be if it isn't powered.

The L from Livewire on the HDNews channel is still cut off but that's the only one I see so far.