Antenna l Set Up l Critical!

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Hello

Broadcast Signal is outstanding, besting anything else, until Blu-ray is considered; Cable & Satellite are a distant ghost in the machine.

What is extremely important, is that the set up is both designed and implemented properly. This is not difficult, but you must know the issues and address them accordingly.

1 l Roof Installation l Mount on the rooftop, and not the attic. Attic installations loose 50% of reception immediately, resulting in unsatisfactory performance seriously affecting the critically important signal to noise of the broadcast signal, that is commonly mistaken to be signal level.

2 l Level Mount l Make certain that the antenna is mounted level using a level.

3 l Antenna Orientation l The antenna needs to be properly oriented to the local broadcast stations in your area; be certain to use a compass for the proper direction(s). If you are uncertain as to their respective locations, simply go to www.antennaweb.org and enter your zip code, and all of the available stations and their locatios will come up; just use common sense if all of your stations are not in a common broadcast area.

4 l Broadcast Area l If your broadcast stations are not conveniently in a common broadcast area; you will need to use a motor drive to change antenna orientation as required.

5 l High Quality Cable l Use the highest quality RG-6 shielded cable available to you; do not use quad shield, but regular shielded cable.

6 l High Quality F-Connectors l Use high quality sealed F-connectors, making certain that the connectors are properly installed or you will loose picture quality and signal performance to both the audio and picture.

7 l Weatherized Connections l Properly weatherize your connections with shrink tubing and liquid silicon. This will result in your original installation performance not degrading gradually over time, resulting in deteriorating performance and an unexpected complete loss of signal over the years

8 l Design Layout l Use a single dedicated cable to a centralized location in the house itself, that is a single run of cable between the antenna and a high quality splitter, having only the required number of runs available from it, to keep signal strength and signal noise at their respective best performance.

9 l Analog Signal l Analog singnal allows for very poor performance, regardless the poor installation, so even if you do a poor installation, which is common, you will still be able to receive channels, but poorly without knowing just how good they would have been if the antenna was properly installed.

10 l Digital Signal l Digital signal is not forgiving; a poor installation will result in a complete loss of affected channels, so you need to make certain that you are not making any mistakes. Essentially, you ether get an outstanding picture quality and sound quality, or you receive nothing.

11 l HDTV Antenna l There is no such thing as a HDTV Antenna; all antenna's are essentially the same. Depending on your area broadcast; you need simply to know whether the antenna is UHF & VHF, or both. Additionally, if you already have an older roof antenna; use it before even considering a new antenna; our original roof antenna was over thirty years old and worked without any issues. When I later replaced it, after many years of successful use, the newer antenna, essentially worked as well, so do not make an unnecessary change unless required; ok?

12 l Grounding l For some reason I left this out originally; I will get back to it again soon. In the interim; it is extremely important, preventing damage to your electronics, should you be unfortunate enough to have this unpleasant occurrence. And; proper grounding rod, is essential. This really only matters if you are near to a lightening strike or directly for that matter; is this not the purpose of this simple protection to your valuable electronics? Post #31 refers to static; this is definitely of significance to why grounding is important - thank you.

13 l Multi-path l Getting somewhat technical here; I will follow up on this soon.

14 l Additional Information l There is more to this, but this is the most important information for a good experience.

15 l DTV Tuners l Be aware that they are not all the same in many regards; including, features, usability, reception, so do not assume that they all are the same, as differences can be profound to your daily television experience, so choose as best you can. DTV Tuners essentially replace your entire television in the sense that how you daily use the tuner, is your television experience.

16 l Indoor Antenna l While they are intended and expected to perform without difficulty; anyone that I know with them, is experiencing inconveniences. This is not intended in any sense to indicate that they do not work effectively, rather that they are not ideal, resulting in varying inconveniences.

17 l Attic Antenna Installations l Given that installation of a roof antenna is a significant performance compromise; it is typical that anyone that I know with this installation is with noticeable performance loss, resulting in regular inconveniences. Again, this is not to indicate that it will not work, simply that it is common that this installation is with compromises and inconveniences to a rewarding daily television experience.

18 l FCC Regulations - Renters & Associations l Since 1996, there has been an FCC Regulation, which clearly details that you are entitled to receive a broadcast television signal. This means that landlords or associations, cannot disallow that you use a roof antenna for television reception. I have the regulation somewhere and will update this listing with it at some time.

19 l Questions l If you have any specific questions; please feel free to contact me directly, and I will respond as quickly as possible; just be patient if it works out that I am slow; ok?. I have been doing detailed installations for many years now, in both the Colorado and Illinois areas, without difficulty, providing trouble free performance. Additionally, having personal experience with broadcast signals for over 10,000 hours of viewing, I am familiar with almost every instance of signal performance in great detail; there is more to all of this than the 'cliff effect'.

Well, I hope that this information is helpful to many, which does apply to most every issue for both the novice and professional. Beyond this level of information, involves both equipment and knowledge beyond practical considerations other than daily operating professionals. Using this information carefully and responsibliy, will result in the best in trouble free outstanding performance. Remember, that broadcast signal on a roof antenna is outstanding, and a considerable improvement over both Cable & Satellite, which is why I personally have canceled our DirecTV and Comcast, to watch broadcast signal exclusively along with Blu-ray. Actually, in doing so, Blu-ray immediately becomes significantly less expensive, using the saving of other content services towards the discs themselves.

Thank You