Phreck
07-05-04, 10:55 AM
I was struggling trying to find a signal from my roof and on the deck railing. I think there were too many trees or something. I had given up and was just going to wait until the installer got here on next the 8th, when I decided I'd make his job easier and run the cables to the receievers. After I got everything run, I decided to try one last place. In my front yard it looked like I should have a pretty good shot. I banged a pole into the ground and mounted the satellite. I ran the cable to the grounding block on my house then went inside. Amazingly I had signal in the 60's to 70's. Went outside and did a little tweaking and I had pretty much all 70's. Then my dad had the idea to cut down some limbs that were over the dish. It didn't look like they would be blocking any signal, but after the limbs were down the signal jumped into the 90's. :eek2: Check the other receiever and that one was getting quite a few 100's. It looks to me like the signal is going through trees, but I don't think I'd get those kind of numbers. So I activated my receiever/access cards with Directv and am very happy right now. I'm a little disappointed that on my 20 year old 36" Mitsubishi tv I'm getting a better picture than on my brand new 55" widescreen Mitsubishi HDTV. Well, except for the HD programming, but that's to be expected. I realize the SD programming doesn't show as well on these tv's, but I'd think it would be at least the same quality as the old tv. I think I may go pick up Avia and see if that helps any after I tweak it.