[vox-tech] OT: over-the-air HD in davis?

[Charles McLaughlin]

Hello,

Here are my results of OTA HDTV using a 58", 25 element antenna (RCA part# 
ANT3020X) with an advertised 35 mile radius.  For testing purposes, the 
antenna was placed on my front porch.  It will eventually go up in the 
attic.  I live in South Davis, near Safeway.

I plugged the antenna into my DishNetwork HD receiver and the following 
channels with ~90% reception.  To sum up my experience... Wow!  OTA HD is 
really, really cool.  It seems that if you can receive the signal, then 
there is no static or interference.  Either you have the signal in full HD 
glory or you don't it at all.

I'm a little concerned about pixelation once I put the antenna in the 
attic, so I might return it and get a 80" 32 element model.

Regards,
Charles

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Ch#     Name		Analog or Digital
--      ----            -----------------
3	ABC             A
3-01    KCRA-DT         D

I remember seeing KVIE but don't have it in my notes

10-01   KXTV-DT         D
10-02   News10          D
10-03   Radar           D
13-01   KOVR-HD         D
13-01   KOVR-SD         D
18      ?               ?
29-01   KSPX-DT         D
29-02   PaxWest         D
29-03   Worship         D
29-04   Faith           D
31-01   Kmax-1          D
40-01   KTXL-DT         D
53-01   ?               D
53-02   ?               D
58-01   KCQA-DT         D

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Charles McLaughlin wrote:
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:03:26 -0800
>> From: Bill Broadley <bill at cse.ucdavis.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] OT: over-the-air HD in davis?
>> To: lugod's technical discussion forum <vox-tech at lists.lugod.org>
>> Message-ID: <20050105020326.GA28809 at cse.ucdavis.edu>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:52:37PM -0800, Charles McLaughlin wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'd like to hear from anyone who is receiving over-the-air high 
>>> definition TV in Davis.  Specifically, I'm trying to decide what 
>>> size/type of antenna to install in my attic.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Charles
>>
>>
>>
>> I'd recommend starting with:
>>     http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/Address.aspx
>>
>> Then you can decide on which channels you want and which kind of size
>> antenna you want (small, medium or large) and type (multi directional
>> or directional).
>>
>> Of course any Davis HDTV OTA user experiences would be valuable as well.
>>
>> More on topic, is anyone doing similar HDTV with mythtv or related
>> linux projects?  Any one tried on of the HDTV cards, like the
>>     http://www.pchdtv.com/
>>
>  > Are there any others that work with linux?
>  >
>  > --
>  > Bill Broadley
>  > Computational Science and Engineering
>  > UC Davis
> 
> Thanks for the link.  I picked up a 66 inch antenna since I sent the 
> email.  Haven't set it up yet though.
> 
> Charles
>