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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
- Subject: Re: Need Antenna Help
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- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
- References: <9208311937.AA01375@mml.ncsl.nist.gov>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:20:08 GMT
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- In article <9208311937.AA01375@mml.ncsl.nist.gov> wilson@MML.NCSL.NIST.GOV (Ron Wilson) writes:
- >Hi Netters,
- >
- >I need some advice. Lately it seems that I have had a lot of interference
- >in the TV reception. Most UHF stations get fuzzy and drift off and now
- >it's even happening to some network channels. It's like the TV is trying
- >to pickup two channels at the same time. I live on the outskirts of
- >Washington, DC and use a Channelmaster antenna with an amplifier. The
-
- Your problem isn't that you aren't picking up the signals; you are. It's
- probably that you are picking up too many channels. I'm in the Tidewater
- VA area and have been getting a lot of troposcatter reception recently,
- picking up FM broadcast stations as far away as New York City.
-
- If that is indeed the problem, about the only thing you can do is to get
- a directional antenna on a rotator, and try to pick out the station you
- want.
-
- Of course, you could have a bad connection somewhere, or an amplifier problem.
- The strange propagation effects will go away in the winter; an antenna system
- problem will stay around until you fix it. (I know this isn't a terribly
- rapid diagnostic method, but it's effective, and frankly there isn't much
- good on TV anyway over the summer).
- --scott
-