<div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Paul Gallaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@gallaway.ca" target="_blank">paul@gallaway.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I only see two of them regularly (CN and Paris). Perhaps the one in<br>
Owen Sound? Tropo is weird.<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIII-DT#Transmitters" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIII-DT#Transmitters</a><br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Weird indeed. The channels were gone in the morning, and even 5 and 25 were gone too (they have been sensitive with the new antenna location).<br><br></div><div>I guess one can hope that Putin precipitates World War III, so we have a nuclear winter, and reception is better because there is no sun. That, or we are already within The Matrix :-)<br>
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Location is the name of the game. An installer might be able to tell<br>
you what you could get if he/she has the measurement tools and<br>
neighbourhood experience but you raise an interesting point. Research
Electronics might make more sales if people were able to take some
loaner equipment home and just see what they can (or cannot) get. Even
if they only used a dedicated DB4e or DB8 and preamp that they loan
out based on a deposit for the replacement cost.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Absolutely brilliant idea! Too bad business are looking under the feet and not long term ...<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Not sure if the
CM7777 is still the best one. I know they changed the design to have a
combined UHF and VHF conector which some people found unfavourable.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I read about the versions too. Someone had the picture of the old one (was it Sayal or Angel Electronics in Mississauga? Can't remember). But the units in stock could be the new one. Who knows. <br>
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I still let some things record but it's maybe 1 in 20 recordings that's OK so I tend to not create new
schedules on that channel. There might be others I can get from
time-to-time but given the nature of MythTV, I just don't add any
channels that can't be consistently retrieved (other than CHCH). Even
then, weather can wreak havoc on prime-time but my reception problems
are usually minimal. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I just got a HomeWorx HW150 PVR (~$44 from BestBuy after price match with Amazon.ca, fown from $70 regular price), and though the interface is crude and can be glitchy at times, it records HD really well, on an external USB drive, which you can hook in any PC and play (or rename files, delete, ...etc.) It has a small foot print and is fanless, and hence no noise at all.<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The other benefit of putting your own ends on is you<br>
can get away with a much smaller hole to pull the wire through.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In my case, there was an old A/C hole in the house, and I was able to push the cable through it after some monkeying around with an inspection camera, a plastic tube, and lots of sweat and tears. <br>
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