04-07-2006, 03:22 AM
OK, now a few more questions... these relate to antenna/reception...
1) It seems that I cannot place my antenna in such a way that I can simultaneously get signal on all the major stations at once? Is that typical?
2) I've already had a couple of occasions where it seems the signal strength goes up, then down, up, down, etc. -- what is causing that? (That seems to be the source of my pixelation/lost signal problems.)
3) In at least one case, I've found that I get pretty decent analog signal with the antenna in a certain position, yet no HDTV signal. I'm assuming this is something strange? (The station in question is Channel 38-- here is that chart of mine again: http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/1746/picture11ea.png)
4) I seem to be getting, maximally, about 17 channels (including, apparently, subchannels of channels-- like one channel has four different ones). Is that typical?
5) Here's the big question. Is the HDTV reception subject to the same problems as analog as regards interference, directionality, bouncing of signals off of objects (phasing), etc.?
Thanks much mikebw (and others) for answering my inane questions!
1) It seems that I cannot place my antenna in such a way that I can simultaneously get signal on all the major stations at once? Is that typical?
2) I've already had a couple of occasions where it seems the signal strength goes up, then down, up, down, etc. -- what is causing that? (That seems to be the source of my pixelation/lost signal problems.)
3) In at least one case, I've found that I get pretty decent analog signal with the antenna in a certain position, yet no HDTV signal. I'm assuming this is something strange? (The station in question is Channel 38-- here is that chart of mine again: http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/1746/picture11ea.png)
4) I seem to be getting, maximally, about 17 channels (including, apparently, subchannels of channels-- like one channel has four different ones). Is that typical?
5) Here's the big question. Is the HDTV reception subject to the same problems as analog as regards interference, directionality, bouncing of signals off of objects (phasing), etc.?
Thanks much mikebw (and others) for answering my inane questions!