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Sep 17, 2005
Ah, blessed relief! OK gang, you can all remove your FM filters and extra antennas now.
It took three and a half years, but apparently enough of you read this web page, complained to KNBC 11, and they moved their antenna. Talk about the power of the web! Folks, we're talking a perfect picture now, here in Berkeley. OK, a little ghosting but not bad. So I take back all the nasty things I said about how they hated us, and were unfairly using the Golden Gate Bridge as a sort of logo, when it was impossible to get a good signal.
All that listening to Conan through all that static is just a horrible memory. Now we can watch Conan, sans snow, and whatever new shows are on the air (I have no idea) in peace.
Jan 7, 2002
Things are looking good! Thanks to a tuned Yaggi antenna courtesy of Robert Dister, a change of location from he North Berkeley "flatlands" to the Berkeley Hills, an antenna A/B switch, and an FM filter from Radio Shack, I was able to get an excellent image from KNTV.
Materials are as follows: FM filter is $3 at Radio Shack, and
an antenna A/B switch from the same place.
(thanks to Robert Dister for the antenna, and the information on where to buy it) |
I have heard of one other Berkeley resident getting a good KNTV reception simply by pointing his roof mounted VHF antenna to the southeast. So it can be done.
Jan 2, 2002
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Yep, folks, this noise shrouded
image is the "new NBC", and shows what NBC thinks of people
who have no cable and live in Berkeley or San
Francisco
And they use a picture of our Golden Gate, too! ----- This picture was taken on January 2, 2002, received using a roof antenna in North Berkeley. It is a digital photograph of a 5 inch monitor |
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If you want to try your luck, and you live in Berkeley, use a compass to point your antenna to 140 degrees -SouthEast- instead of the normal 211 degrees - SouthWest - for Mt Sutro. I had no problem receiving the usual local stations 2, 4, 5, 7, and 9 even with the antenna rotated. I tried one of those $30 in-line signal amplifier gadgets from Radio Shack - part number 15-1170. Save your money, or buy mine from me: there was no change in the picture that I could see. An FM filter had no effect on the noise at this location, but did have a very good effect at another location with a different antenna (see Jan 7 notes above). |
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For comparison, here is an image taken using the same monitor, with the signal received via cable. --- Ignore the vertical banding. It is due to interaction between the digital camera I used, and the rather coarse mask pattern of the TV monitor. |
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