Tv reception - Page 5

On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:22:54 +1100, "Rod Speed"



OK Digital Antennas
But the local Antenna installers advertise "digital aerial"
instalation.

Petzl wrote:


** Of course they do -  they know very well what side their bread is buttered on.

The word "digital" equates to magic in the minds of many consumers.  


....  Phil  

There is no such thing as a digital antenna for TV in this country.



Just more sales bullshit. Yes it's a better antenna than your previous one,
but there is nothing digital about it, its just as analog as the old one.  

On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 03:26:22 +1100, "Rod Speed"



OK a recieving Digital Antennas!
F Murtz should able to see what signal he gets on his TV mines 9 out
of 10. the old was 3-4 out of 10

Still no such animal. There is no difference between a
receiving digital antenna and a receiving analog antenna.



That's just how well it performs, nothing to do with it being digital.  

Rod Speed wrote:

Petzl wrote:

What are you measuring it with?
I have a signal strength meter which has a meter calibrated one to ten  
but the scale has nothing to do with the scale of transmitted strength  
it is just a means of measuring best signal for direction it will not  
measure total strength out of ten from min to max transmitted as you  
adjust the range with a pot

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The TV's themselves have a signal strenght reading
just push "info" on TV remote controler

Once upon a time on usenet Petzl wrote:


Some do and they vary as to scale and implimentation. Sure tha flash ones  
have all of the gee-gaws but lesser TVs not so much.

Petzl wrote:



Pressed info, says nothing about signal strength.

They don't all access that display that way. Look at the manual, there are
few digital TVs that don't have the signal strength display somewhere.

Rod Speed wrote:

By changing control from PVR to tv and going to menu and then channel I  
can then get signal strength for the channel I am on then doing it for  
each channel in turn I found strengths ranging from 69 to 90 something.

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7 -9 out of 10 means it's not the Antenna

Petzl wrote:

As I said it was the led light fitting, fixed since I put ferrite fore  
and aft of the electronic transformer, just took many months to figure out

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I believe you now all info has been looked at

Petzl wrote:

Something strange has happened recently also, I am now getting  
Wollongong and sometimes sydney

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That's actually annoying as when you update your TV search it comes up
with a lot of fuzzy channels. On my TV can't delete them

Likely because the kitchen light isnt obliterating them
anymore if that happens with the kitchen light on.  

Rod Speed wrote:

not sure the kitchen light has much to do with reception of Wollongong  
as the kitchen light is only 6 months or so old and before that  
Wollongong reception was iffy, it is only recently I have noticed better  
reception. It could be my fiddling before I discovered the light problem  
may have made better connection in some thing like the masthead power  
supply or various coax plugs.

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The first thing one should get is signal strength shown on TV