WIAT dropouts

[radar7079]

I've recently been having frequent dropouts of the digital/hd signal from channel 42 in Birmingham. I was wondering if anyone else in this area is experiencing this problem. I've been getting hd/digital ota for about 2 years and WIAT has until now been the most reliable hd/digital signal I get from Birmingham. I live about 45 miles east of Birmingham. I am not having the dropout problem on the other local channels, except for the PBS station (which almost always drops out), so I assume the problem is on the station's end. I e-mailed them a few days ago, but I have not received a response.

 

[breadman]

Check this thread on avsforum. They will know if anybody does. I know I have seen some posters talking about the quality of wiat mpeg 4 feed on directv lately on this site.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=365749

 

[radar7079]

Check this thread on avsforum. They will know if anybody does. I know I have seen some posters talking about the quality of wiat mpeg 4 feed on directv lately on this site.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=365749

Thanks.

 

[frankb123]

For those of you that have a problem with a big yellow banner showing signal loss intermittantly for about two seconds (annoying).

The solution is to put a DC block coupling in the antenna cable at the receiver input.

This works

This problem appeared within the last two months on my VIP-211 receiver - my Samsung HDMI receiver does NOT have this problem.
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Hope this helps.

I used one laying around the RF lab, but try these less than $3.00 units
satellitedish.com/cata0207.htm

Either DCVBS or DCB19