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I'd like to share another situation while helping my wife's friend not far from where we live.
She was having trouble picking up anything from the digital converter box, maybe one station.
So I decided to go take a look at what was wrong with her reception, keeping in mind that I wasn't going to pay for anything that might make it better.
Now I have read many articles about digital OTA and from what I read it was supposed to only use UHF.
She has a small outdoor antenna with the worse possible wire feeding in to the STB, a 300 ohm.
Someone had even made it worse, whoever hooked it up had a one of those super cheap push ons that makes you either pick UHF or VHF, can't get both because of the layout.
It was on the VHF side so I decided to switch to the UHF side to see if reception was better.
Much to my surprise it picked up different digital channels than with it on the VHF but still wasn't improving things that much so I decided to temporarily connect both sides and to my amazement stations were coming in, many of the same ones I can pickup.
So I went home and got one of my unused 300ohm to 75ohm tranformer, a small length of 75 ohm cable and got her fixed up.
I really don't know what to make out of this except if someone is only choosing one side of the TV spectrum reception might suffer, they may need to make sure they have both UHF and VHF hooked up to receiver.
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