Posted by Stephen on 08/23/07 15:13

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:16:15 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid>
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

>I'm playing around with Pinnacle's PCTV HD Stick (USB2 stick that
>tunes digital/analog TV channels).
>
>Seems to work as advertised but, of course, the pic isn't all
>that wonderful with the little telescoping antenna they supply
>mounted downstairs in my rec room. Tried putting about 75 feet
>of coax on it and moving it to the crotch of a tree outside as
>high as I could reach, but the coax seemed to degrade the signal
>so much that it was worse with than without - in either location.
>
>I'm looking at www.antennaweb.org and guessing that "Large
>Multidirectional With PreAmp" trumps all the others if one is
>going to buy a single antenna.
>
>Question: How much better can I expect reception to be with a
>specialized antenna - over the little thing that Pinnacle
>supplies?

Analog will have less ghosting. For digital, it'll improve the signal
strength and you may be able to view the channels you can't see now.

I'm using an amplified directional antenna with a rotator since the
main digital OTA antenna farm it too far for a omni and a few stations
are in different directions.

A better newsgroup for asking this is alt.tv.tech.hdtv

Stephen
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