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Hi, A year ago, I bought a LCD TV which tunes analog and digital
channels. I first tried to use the VHF masthead whip as an antenna with poor results, same with rabbit ears. I made a horizontal wire loop out of a bucket lid and a twin lead to coax transformer to hang in the rig. I noticed that when swinging at anchor, the motion of the boat caused the digital channels to freeze or glitch with pixelation and audio squawks. I would then switch to the analog channel and put up with the inferior quality. Realizing that the time was rapidly approaching when I would not be able to continue viewing by going analog, I decided to buy an amplified antenna to hang in the rig. I chose a winegard ms2000 omni which has a fairly large 21 inch saucer, a 3 watt power injector, was supposed to come with 50' of RG 6. It arrived and I installed it. It came with RG 59 and cheap F connectors, so I didn't use that. I flew it and the reception was not quite as good as my home made passive loop. I changed out coax, unplugged the power injector, and determined that the cable was good and the amp was functioning. So, I am very dissatisfied with this unit's performance. I am looking for suggestions as to how to improve my drop out situation while swinging on the hook. It should be omni directional, i think. I understand that digital's phase sensitivity to movement is much greater than analog. Any Ideas? Not interested in servo gyro type stuff. |
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