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West Grand Master

West

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Hi all,

By now, everybody should have a HD TV. I'm having a little issue with the reception for my HD.

I've got a cheap indoor antena ($5) for now, it does an excellent job but it has got it's moments. Sometime i get really good reception and just when my fav TV show is on, reception died out. If i walk pass the TV, reception die. This is a major piss off and the LCD is too expensive to get smash up so i had to keep my cool by cuddling it, talk nicely to it, touch it softly..............almost kiss it AND STILL.

So, i'm now looking for a good indoor antena, i've heard of ones that has its power and everything. I did my reserach and found a few so i'm a little confuse of which to get. Just wondering if you guys has one and what's your experience with it? How much did you buy it and where?

Thanks

krzysiu Grand Master

krzysiu

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Its has built in HD.

We've got a roof antena but there isn't a line that runs to my room and i can't be ass doing it.

Lol westy, if you want good reception, make a line go to your room. Will take a whole hour if you know what your doing.

paulr33 Grand Master

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high def built in tuners into the TV and in door attennas usually suck dogs balls

they are cheap units with low power gain so the signal is poor

try a $5 pair of rabbit ears (no joke) and if its poo then get a high def set top box & rabbit ears

that will give you much better results with even a crap pair of rabbit ears

a high def set top box will be $100 ish

paulr33 Grand Master

paulr33

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what sort of attena do you have

if you have an external roof attena its fine

but an indoor craptastic attena it wont have the pickup

west wanted a good indoor attena for his built in tuner

there arent any - thats the problem

toddlls Proficient

toddlls

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There are various antennas on the market that have a dial to fine tune the reception, rabbit ears will work but will need tweeking via moving the ears the 4 points of the pole N/S/E/W and varying the heights of each and angle-signal moves throughout the day due to tv companies increase signal power for the signal drain when everyone is watching just like fm radio, I think vivitar do a dial adjustable antenna for indoor use, Go to Good Guys or Dick Smith and have a look. Another thing is dont use too many joiners and keep antenna away from power points and other power/speaker wires as they will pick up magnetic fields and create signal noise which will come through the picture :)

(B1) MR_fanny Grand Master

(B1) MR_fanny

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maybe i should wire it up to the car port frame or is that too Mcguyver!...ha

what do you guys think? I went through 2 of those fancy adjustable indoor antennas at dick smith with signal boosters and seperate power supply but they all sucked. In the end i just swapped it over for a 5buck rabbit ears which still isnt the best but was better than the other 2.

how does one run a secont antenna cable from the roof antenna?

Stagea_Neo Experienced

Stagea_Neo

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I use a leadtek usb tuner/dongle with my laptop, perfect reception as long as the aerial is close to a window.

I just run an aerial extension cable. (good quality shielded coax not cheap $3.95 cable from kmart)

All i need is the hd aerial that came with it, see the pic i've downloaded from the website.

Mine isnt this exact one, but flat and square about 3cm * 3cm and 0.5cm thick.

I've tested with rabbit ear aerial, they also work fine as long as close to a window.

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