Monterey, CA - HDTV - Page 20

I looked into it a little deeper and it's impossible. See the Terrain Plot I attached. Ignore the red line. The blue line is taking into account the height of Sutro tower and 50' off the ground at your end. Sutro is 86 miles at a heading of exactly 340 degrees. It's at least a 3 edge path if not 4 or 5 edges. The real killer is that you have a 732' hill 1 mile down the path which is the final nail in the coffin.

Chuck

Yowser. Way worse than I first thought..

Hi folks. Is anyone having any trouble with the KSBW ABC channel, 8.2? Its as if the screen freezes for a second during programming, before catching up. The sound is fine, but it's almost unwatchable with the choppiness of the screen freezes. I had Comcast Basic cable while living in Santa Cruz, and it was doing it there. I moved to Watsonville two months ago and I'm using an OTA HD antenna, and the problem presists. I contacted KSBW, but they claim there is no issue on their end. Is it my TV?

Guess I need to look at this forum more often. Is this issue still going on? I don't look at 8.2 that often. I just put it on and it looks fine. I'd be really surprised if it was a KSBW problem because they'd be getting a ton of complaints. It might be your TV although I can't imagine why it would only be 8.2. Do you have another TV you can try?

Chuck

Hi, I just moved to Pacific Grove, and bought a Mohu Plus Amplified Leaf indoor antenna. Currently the antenna is on the ceiling in the bathroom (not the most eye appealing place). An outdoor antenna is out of the question because I am in an apartment. I am able to receive the most stations here (8.1/8.2, 35.1, and very spotty, but 25.1/25.2/25.3, along with 31.1/31.2/31.3 showing up but with no picture). I have tried almost everywhere in this apartment with no luck on gaining anymore stations.

I have always had cable before joining the army, but this is definitely a cheaper alternative. I have a few questions since I am new to OTA reception:
Is there a better indoor antenna out there for me other than the Amplified Leaf?
Is there a certain direction or way of hanging the antenna that I should be doing?
Would a DTV converter box be able to find more stations than my digital ready tv, thus allowing me to fine tune the antenna when I finally get sound/picture? (currently the tv stops at a few places and scans for a minute before jumping percentage wise).

I have tried tvfool. Without antenna height for my address, it tells me I can get a few more channels. However when I put in how high my antenna will be (I downloaded an app on my iPhone...312 ft above sea level), it says I can receive even more stations, including CBS. Also I've wasted almost an entire box of tin foil hoping that would work.

Thanks!

Sounds like you're not receiving any stations from Mt. Toro; 46, 39, 22, etc.

Lots of people like the Winegard SS3000 but I can't guarantee success with any particular antenna.

No, it's hit and miss. An indoor antenna may require a different position for every station.

If anything the TV tuner is likely to be better than a converter box. The scanning situation you describe happens when the TV finds a signal but is unable to decode it. This most likely means that the signal is strong enough but there is too much multipath. Moving the antenna may improve this for that particular station.

The problem is likely multipath issues. TVFool cannot account for this, only signal strength. It would be helpful if you have some way to tune to the problem channel and move the antenna until it can be decoded.

Chuck

this is for larry kenney, a regular poster on the sf bay thread, he keeps a comprhensive list of stations on his website

today i noticed theres a new subchannel, 67.4 "zuus" showing a mix of music videos in english and spanish