On 08/12/05 02:53 ET, Weblurker said...
I thought I'd ask owners of the 4228 about their
experiences with OTA HDTV reception.
I''ve read a few reports, about the Silver Sensor
antenna that comes with the HDTV Wonder card,
from people who have reported that they occasionally
lose a channel for a short time. I'm wondering
if that's just a problem with the Silver Sensor,
or if that also happens with the 4228.
So, as a 4228 owner, do you occasionally lose
channels or experience frame drop outs due to
weather or does the 4228 always deliver a solid
signal whenever you watch HDTV? It would be interesting
if you could give a rough idea of the number of
times a channel dropped out because of a known
transmitter problem and when/if the dropout occurred
because of some other reception problem.
I'm running a 4228 (8-bay Bow Tie) on top of a mast approx 8' above my eave. The antenna is pointed south towards Buffalo (I'm in Toronto). I haven't had any stations fadeing out except for 2-1 one night, I assume they were having TXmitter problems. WNED was a little on the low side so I installed a preamp which boosted everything up to 80-99% signal strength mark.
Interestingly to pick up the Canadian stations coming in from the west I'm useing a 4-bay Bow Tie without preamp. These stations are all up 80-99% except for 66-1.
This message was edited by DeadAir on 10/07/05 09:55 ET.
