TV DX
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"It's All In the Timing" - Johnny Carson
the overguyed
80' Rohn 25G and 47' 20G
(note: a M2 6M7JHV 7 el 6M yagi is atop the smaller tower now)
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
(note: most of the screening has fallen
off because the uv cable ties I used have failed after about 15 years.
I should have wire tied them.)
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.
(note: I've since removed the front 6 hi-band elements)
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
(note: the two bottom 13" Zeniths have failed after years of service.
I've seen acquired
13" sets made by Sony, Emerson,
Sylvania, and two more Zeniths as backups.)
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.
