On November 26, 2009 at 18:27, hd fan said...
Wogster how would you explain then why I had to use a 3 stage low noise home built pre-amp back in Havana to get the US stations (Even Channels from FT Myers and Odds from FT Lauderdale/Miami). I guess I should have saved the hazard of asking a family member to pass the little high Ft low noise NPN transistors through Cuban customs then. I had a short cable run (30 to 50 ft) and a 2 m parabolic UHF antenna. Consider Havana is 90 miles from Key West and 180 miles from the transmitting towers, beleive me without the pre amp most days you would have no signal , and with it , most days throught out the year even in that almost all summer year long you would have to get used to a 1 or 2 second long fading or a grainy picture.
But anyways this is a free country and anyone is free to say or type anything on the free internet.
Did you ever try putting the amplifier down the line a little, either way, the amplifier isn't going to boast the antenna input, it's going to compensate for line losses on the cable, between the antenna and the receiver. I have one antenna that has a built in amplifier at the antenna and it's a cable run of about 5', you know you can turn up the amplifier as high as it goes, from off to full on, really doesn't make any difference in the signal. Mind you it's a crappy antenna from what we used to call radio shack.
