| Post 12 made on Saturday January 26, 2013 at 03:06 |
Ernie Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
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There's no difference between an analog TV antenna and a digital TV antenna.
New antennas won't work better because the old ones did nto work, but because the new ones aren't corroded and broken.
Most new antennas are still 300 ohm devices but have a matching transformer -- the famour 300 ohm to 75 ohm flat lead to coax transformer -- on them so you can use coax. You could just as well use twin lead, but nobody does.
The comment that antennas with coax coming off them are newer antennas may just be the comment of youth with little experience. I put up Winegard antennas that could take twin leads, but had a PC board you could add on for a coax feed, in 1985 (and since). That's 18 years ago, old enough to corrode to death. The latest antenna I put up for myself was a ChannelMaster that had a 300 ohm output and a matching transformer, so a coax downlead.
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