Jeff Kadet, K1MOD's
TV DX
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"It's All In the Timing" - Johnny Carson
TV DX
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"It's All In the Timing" - Johnny Carson
the overguyed 80' Rohn 25G and
47' 20G
the screened 7 foot Channel Master
UHF dish
the screening is 1/2" hardware
cloth with UV resistant cable ties
Screening helps improve directionality,
front-to-back, and gain on the higher UHF channels
an RDX Labs pre-amp and 1/2" aluminum hardline
are used
E-Skip Antenna
15' 7" long vertically polarized
Channel Master 1110 up 12' with 10 degree tilt
The mast is a wheelbarrow handle and the
2 supports are fiberglass.
The coax is guided out the back
using ½ of a hula hoop.
The antenna is vertically polarized to attenuate
horizontally polarized stations
received by groundwave
It is only 12' high to also attenuate groundwave stations.
The 10 degree tilt upwards may or may not
help improve E Layer reception.
a horizontal CM 1110 up 47' is used for tropo
RG-11 coax and Winegard AP-8700 pre-amps
are used on both
A Zenith for each lo-band channel during E-Skip openings
An Insignia DTV converter box connected to a 60" Sony HDTV monitor is the main DTV DXing equipment
An ICOM R7100 VHF/UHF communications receiver
with analog video adapter,
and an ICOM IC-756 Pro II ham
transceiver are also used.
