...and you all know who you are:dance:
I've been reading about a lot of rural DTV reception problems here and I guess location, topography, etc are the big factors so I am asking if anyone can take a look at my TV Fool report and make a recommendation as to what I can expect.
Points of interest:
This is a mountain cabin and we are off grid. Although we do generate minimal solar power I can't use it to amplify a signal or power a rotor. For a rotor I can cobble together a pulley system that will do the job.
The TV Fool report is resolved only to zip code level. For some reason when I resolve to coordinates I get nothing (again, topography, perhaps).
If this helps, our physical location is about 5 miles NW of here and I could post a map with exact location. We are at an elevation of about 1600 feet.
I now have only a rooftop hi/lo VHF antenna (read my 1st forum post http://www.dtvusaforum.com/dtv-hdtv-reception-antenna-discussion/4592-id-old-antenna-please.html) with about 20' of RJ6 (I believe) coax directly to the DTV. Interesting to note is that the only stations I now get are 7.1 and 7.2 from the SW which do not even show up on the analysis, and occassionally 2 fuzzy analog Canadian channels from the same orientation.
Before the DTV transition I could not receive analog transmissions from the SE as shown on the fool report with any clarity whatsoever.
Should I harbor hopes of additional VHF or any UHF reception?
If so can anyone recommend what I could do for antennas?
Thanks for reading!
1 minute later edit:
geez I should have re-read my OP and responses.
Sorry, don't mean to duplicate threads...I think the only addition here is that we don't have power for the amp.
apologies for the dup <blush>
I've been reading about a lot of rural DTV reception problems here and I guess location, topography, etc are the big factors so I am asking if anyone can take a look at my TV Fool report and make a recommendation as to what I can expect.
Points of interest:
This is a mountain cabin and we are off grid. Although we do generate minimal solar power I can't use it to amplify a signal or power a rotor. For a rotor I can cobble together a pulley system that will do the job.
The TV Fool report is resolved only to zip code level. For some reason when I resolve to coordinates I get nothing (again, topography, perhaps).
If this helps, our physical location is about 5 miles NW of here and I could post a map with exact location. We are at an elevation of about 1600 feet.
I now have only a rooftop hi/lo VHF antenna (read my 1st forum post http://www.dtvusaforum.com/dtv-hdtv-reception-antenna-discussion/4592-id-old-antenna-please.html) with about 20' of RJ6 (I believe) coax directly to the DTV. Interesting to note is that the only stations I now get are 7.1 and 7.2 from the SW which do not even show up on the analysis, and occassionally 2 fuzzy analog Canadian channels from the same orientation.
Before the DTV transition I could not receive analog transmissions from the SE as shown on the fool report with any clarity whatsoever.
Should I harbor hopes of additional VHF or any UHF reception?
If so can anyone recommend what I could do for antennas?
Thanks for reading!
1 minute later edit:
geez I should have re-read my OP and responses.
Sorry, don't mean to duplicate threads...I think the only addition here is that we don't have power for the amp.
apologies for the dup <blush>
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