[opendtv] Re: Samsung DTB-H260F selling well

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:11:16 -0500

Cliff Benham wrote:

> With the DirecTV box, I could get only 11 DTV channels [some
> have as many as 5 SDI programs, most with 1 HD and 2 or 3
> SDIs].
>
> With the DTB-H260F I now receive 17 channels, but still can't
> get the Philadelphia Fox station, WTXF-DT. Are they off the
> air?

FWIW, I usually use Mark Aitken's Fox affiliate in Baltimore, because it
is reliable. I'm not sure why, but the Fox 5 local signal, with my 3rd
gen boxes, is sometimes problematic. And not just with one antenna.
Maybe a strong ghost? Don't know.

> Still, this is quite an improvement, and includes a Lancaster,
> PA station WGAL, that is at a ~75 degree azimuth from the
> backside of the parabolic UHF antenna, and also WNJS-DT the
> New Jersey PBS station that is near ?Trenton? Wonder if
> could add more by putting up a big VHF LOG antenna?

Cool. Steady improvement makes me grin. I didn't know that there were
any VHF DTT stations in your neck of the woods yet. Are there?

Bert
 
 
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