Height Control & TV Antennas

[Ralph Fullenwider]

Hi Fred:


Charolette and I recently replaced our defunct tv with a flat screen of
which I built an over head tv hide cabinet for. The tv has a built in
meter one can bring up and see the strength change to higher or lower as
the ant is rotated. I like being able to change the direction, especially
in an area where I go fly fishing and is in a tv/cell phone challenged
area Also another reason is that Charolette will not let me
have the Satellite box out of the house when I go to the Lady Blue after
trout. LOL


Safe travels,


Ralph & Charolette Fullenwider

'84 FC 35 "Ruff Diamond"

Duncan, Oklahoma


At 04:51 PM 10/5/2009 +0000, you wrote:

I'm confused by all the rotating,
directional antennas, still on rv's (like mine that is original and still
works perfectly), now that we have digital tv. What is the advantage of a
directional antenna if you don't know which way to direct it? Since it
does not have a signal strength meter (nor have I ever seen such an
accessory), I cannot tell when to let go of the rotating button. Digital
tv is not like analog, where the picture gets a little better while you
rotate the ant. There is a delay in locking in on the station that makes
trying to effectively use the rotor useless. My tower works fine, and so
does my antenna, however I plan to replace my antenna with an
omni-directional one, for fear that I'm missing some stations in certain
circumstances due to the directionality of the antenna.




Fred


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