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TFW after spending literally months trying different things to get your OTA TV reception perfected, your neighbor begins installing a metal-roofed structure over their back patio.
(Luckily it does not appear to be causing any trouble so far.)
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Here's what it takes to receive OTA TV at our house without constant interruptions by passing airplanes or poor signal strength due to unknown problems.
Top-right: a pair of ChannelMaster "Pro Antennas," both with the UHF extensions, and the top one also has the VHF extension. They are spaced 1 1/8 wavelengths apart at VHF channel 7, and aim at Sutro Tower. Feedlines of identical length meet in a combiner.
Further right, a Stellar Labs "fringe" antenna points at Mt. Allison.
Lower-left, a pair of ChannelMaster Metrotenna 40's, chosen partly for their small footprint, also point at Sutro Tower. These also feed into a combiner via feedlines of exactly equal length.
Feedlines from the two combiners' outputs and the fringe antenna connect to a Televes SmartKom DSP combiner/amplifier, a clever device which can select from which antenna each channel should be received.
The output from the Smartkom then drives two HDHomeRun Flex4k tuners inside the house.
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This weekend's project: running another DTV feedline from the roof, down to a gas-discharge surge arrestor, into the house, through the crawlspace, and up into my home office, to a second HDHomerun tuner.
We live 5 miles away from SFO airport, and 0.5 miles away from an electrical substation, which causes unique OTA TV reception problems. I managed to solve the vast majority of them with stacked Yagi antennas spaced a wavelength apart fed into a combiner, but this arrangement picks up multipath noise for two channels and renders them unwatchable.
This feedline is for a separate antenna, not combined with the other antennas, which will be configured specifically for those two channels (KPIX and KBHK, which broadcast from the same antenna on Mt Sutro). The HDHomerun app is smart enough to pick the right tuner for the right channels, hopefully solving this problem for good.
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This #time the stars fall down,
The night becomes the dawn,
I reach for you,
but you're already gone.You're a feeling that my skin radiates,
A #soul that I've had the pleasure to contemplate.
But you are #lost now,
In and out,
The picture isn't clear,
Somehow we've drifted apart,
far apart my dear.Meet you again someday,
Hopefully this lifetime 'round,
Know at least I can count,
Count on #heaven bound.#guessilostyou #untilwemeetagain #cordcutting #whatnolongerserves #soulcontract #karma #unconditionallove #notsad #grateful #poetry #poem