Question on HR20's internal OTA Splitter

[twodutys]

Does anyone know if we can easily go in and remove this splitter? Or is it soldered in? I don't want 2 OTA tuners I just want one that I can pickup the low powered stations that we have here in Denver. My RCA 210 is showing a 60% on some of them. There are at least 8 stations that won't be on D* that I won't be able to pick up with a F***King splitter. I can't believe some engineer actually put an internal splitter on the OTA tuners! Why could they just put 2 RF fittings on the back and let the end user split the signal if they wanted 2 OTA tuners to be active instead of one! It's just common sense!

Thanks in advance,

 

[Jimbo]

Does anyone know if we can easily go in and remove this splitter? Or is it soldered in? I don't want 2 OTA tuners I just want one that I can pickup the low powered stations that we have here in Denver. My RCA 210 is showing a 60% on some of them. There are at least 8 stations that won't be on D* that I won't be able to pick up with a F***King splitter. I can't believe some engineer actually put an internal splitter on the OTA tuners! Why could they just put 2 RF fittings on the back and let the end user split the signal if they wanted 2 OTA tuners to be active instead of one! It's just common sense!

Thanks in advance,

How do you plan on watching one show OTA and recording another if you do that ?

I highly doubt that it's a physical splitter, more than likely it's an electronic board doing the work.

I am GLAD that it has 2 OTA tuners.

Have you tried turning your OTA antenna, chances are you need to move it some in order to get all the channels you want.
You did not say what area you are in, have you looked at antennaweb.org to see what direction your towers are in, are these channels all in the same direction ?
Analog signals are an entirely different beast vs digital.

Jimbo

 

[waynebtx]

Does anyone know if we can easily go in and remove this splitter? Or is it soldered in? I don't want 2 OTA tuners I just want one that I can pickup the low powered stations that we have here in Denver. My RCA 210 is showing a 60% on some of them. There are at least 8 stations that won't be on D* that I won't be able to pick up with a F***King splitter. I can't believe some engineer actually put an internal splitter on the OTA tuners! Why could they just put 2 RF fittings on the back and let the end user split the signal if they wanted 2 OTA tuners to be active instead of one! It's just common sense!

Thanks in advance,

This is a leasted Reciver. You cant mod it that way unless you want to pay D* $700.00 for it.

 

[Jimbo]

This is a leasted Reciver. You cant mod it that way unless you want to pay D* $700.00 for it.

$700 and up, I'm thinking $8- 850.

Jimbo