over-the-air TV channels in Orchidland?

[terracore]

H22, how did you get to be such a guru on these matters?

[H22]

I'm a geek!! :-)

[Todd H]

If you're in a fringe reception area, you have to do it right, including all of the components between the antenna and your TV. In my area (25 miles north of downtown Seattle). I have a Channel Master 1160A Quantum (VHF, UHF, FM), plus a Channel Master 4228 (UHF), with a CM rotator. Using Radio Shack Quad-Shield RG6 for the entire run, to minimize signal loss. My experience: Shortly after the conversion to DTV in 2009, I noticed that several stations would not come in at all, while others were intermittent. Went though a lot of troubleshooting, including inspection on the roof, and could not seem to find the problem. On the second attempt and with a whole Saturday ahead of me, I was fiddling around with the connections on the back of the TV and happened to knock the in-line signal splitter against the wall. Lo and behold! All of the stations came in strong and clear. I rescanned and was amazed with a full complement of channels once again. Pushing everything back into the entertainment center, the splitter bumped up against the wall and suddenly I was back to having only a handful of channels. Turns out it was the splitter! That was the gremlin in the works. Probably a loose solder connection inside, as these things are made rather cheaply. Drove to Radio Shack, bought a new splitter, and everything has been hunky dory since.

Todd

[terracore]

I had crappy reception on many channels until I ditched the cheapo coax I got locally and replaced it for a higher quality one I bought on Amazon. Solved a lot of problems and thankfully before I did the permanent install in our 3000 degree attic.

[Bullwinkle]

I had 10-3 (a new pbs channel) appear last night.....

[Gus]

In Orchidland, elevation 600 feet, antenna a hundred bucks from Home Depot online with free delivery, added a booster, pointed true north (fixed at 0 degrees) I get 4-1,2
9-1
10-1,2,3
11-1,2
13-1,2
14-1
45-1,2,3
Good enough for me.

[terracore]

quote:

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Originally posted by Bullwinkle

I had 10-3 (a new pbs channel) appear last night.....

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We routinely get 4 PBS channels, two of which come and go. If I rotate the antenna I can get two more (but I lose every other channel). But they are just repeaters, there are only 2 PBS channels even if I can "get" 6 of them in the same night. And of course one of the 45 channels is a repeat of (if I remember right) CBS.

[Bullwinkle]

right now I get the pbs feed n. america on 10- 1 nhk on10- 2 and cartoons on 10- 3 ......seems to be 3 distinct feeds

[terracore]

I checked last night and noticed that too. 3 is finicky though at least for me. I might have to tinker with the antenna.

[terracore]

Here's the current lineup of channels we get all the time. Some of them used to drift back and forth but I haven't touched the antenna and everything settled down to this channel lineup:

4.1 ABC major network
4.2 MeTV classic television programming (Brady Bunch, Gunsmoke, MASH etc), http://www.metv.com/
9.1 KFVE local, http://www.k5thehometeam.com/
10.1 PBS major network
10.1 PBS transmitter 2, same programming as above
10.2 PBS different programming than 10.1
10.2 PBS transmitter 2, same programming as above
10.3 PBS Sometimes different programming than 10.1 or 10.2
10.3 PBS transmitter 2, same programming as above
11.1 FOX major network
11.2 CCW major network
13.1 NBC major network
13.2 CBS major network
14.1 KWHE religious programming and old TV shows/movies http://www.kwhe.com/
45.1 CBS (same programming as 13.2)
45.2 THIS TV movies and drama, http://honolulu.thistv.com/
45.3 ESCAPE TV basically a movie channel with movies from 80's-2000, http://www.escapetv.com/

Here's a URL for listings: http://tvlistings.aol.com/listings/hi/hi...-air/96720

ETA: 14.1, formatting, listings