45 Foot Periodic Antenna Tower
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Oh, well you said "unde the right propogation conditions" so I thought you might know.
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Hummm -- I really haven't paid much attention to weather conditions. I have simply noticed that sometimes certain distant digital TV stations will come in better than they do other times.
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And; what do you find to be the best reception conditions? Clear night; no wind and low humidity? Like a starry Fall night? I live in the country too; doesn't that help and mean there is less interference and need for highly shieded expensive cable?
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Yes I really like digital TV. I especially like the way many stations are using the digital split channels. The antenna array in the video (not the tower) ended up being destroyed by the January 2009 Arkansas ice storm. I replaced it with a slightly smaller array I purchased at Home Depot and it pretty much seems to work just as well.
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@tomwiles What do you find to be the best propogation conditions? Clear night with low humidity?
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Do you like that it is digital tv now? I do actually; I thought I would not; I find I can pick up about as many stations not of course ones that were super snowy but they don't count anyway. I have a really good TV aerial that came with my house and I increased the height by six feet. It's actually pretty old; one of the (the second longest) conductors slid out and fell off and I can't find it; how badly will this throw off the antenna's properties?
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I want to put up a tower like that for my folks who live way the heck out in the middle of nowhere Ohio. The local ISP has line-of-sight wi-fi, but my folks are a bit far from the tower. It's certainly faster and cheaper than HughesNet. He needed a belt on up there! Goodness. Also, I presume there aren't nasty wind conditions where you are? I'd imagine at least one set of guy wires for that thing...?
nelladorraj 2 years ago
There are no guy wires. The tower itself survived the January 2008 ice storm quite nicely, though I had to replace the TV antenna because the weight of the ice caused it to bend. The base of the tower is set in concrete buried in the ground and attached to the side of the house. Tripod antenna structures are very stable. If it had been much taller it would probably need some sort of guy wires to help stabilize it. I'm very happy that I put it up. The local phone company still does not offer DSL.
tomwiles 2 years ago
Can you stream movies on your computer using the broadband you have?
krc5210 2 years ago
Yes I can most of the time. The Internet service I'm connected to has improved the service in recent months.
tomwiles 2 years ago