CM 4228 HD Report

philiphotog

Today, I finished finding the sweet spot. The antenna is installed in my attic and is hooked up with a Channel Master Pre Amp 7778.

Pointing at 156 south east, I can pick up all my locals, plus those out west.

I'm in zip code 78260 and the tvfool.com info is attached. I'm located 26-31 miles from the transmitters south east of me. It's going to be interesting if I overload the tuner when all channels go digital next month as I have station 18 (17.1) just a few miles away from me that will then switch over. I'm hoping that with my antenna pointed away from the station that won't be the case.

32 (35.1) KMYS - 100
30 (29.1) KABB - 100
8 (9.1) KLRN - 93
16 (23.1) KHCE - 87
48 (12.1) KSAT - 83
58 (4.1) WOAI - 80
55 (5.1) KENS - 100

There are other channels in spanish and I've not listed those as I'm not interested in them but they're in the 80s.

Does it matter when I add the surge protector for the coax? I'm going to add it just before attaching it to the receiver with the power supply for the pre-amp after that.

Anyway, so far so good. I can confirm with glee that it can pick up channel 8 VHF extremely well 25 miles from the station. PBS on channel 8 will be moving to channel 9 next month.

Hopefully this will be good news for those interested in the CM 4228 HD.

Cheers and if you have any questions I will do my best to report back.

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IDRick

Nice report Philiphotog! Thanks! Looks like you have a full set of network locals. Enjoy!

Best,

Rick

electrictroy

You only get 7 stations?

How many stations are available if you use your TV's built-in analog receiver?

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TV Band/whitespace Devices will block my Baltimore/Philly stations. No more channels 2,3,6,10,11,12,13,17,35,45,57,61,65

philiphotog

Hi electrictroy,

I'll let you know how many analogue channels I have later today. I do receive 21 digital channels that includes subs. As I mentioned above, there are several Spanish channels that I do not want and were not included in the list.

philiphotog

SO, just a quick update about the analogue channels requested.

I receive ch 2, ch 9, ch 12, ch 23, ch 26. ch 29, ch 35, ch 41 and ch 60. They are all strong signals with clean images except ch 2, probably as it's not pointing in the right direction.

With digital, I can pick up 30 channels which includes subs.

Cheers!

electrictroy

So you get 9 analog stations and 7 digital stations using this new antenna. Not bad.

When I switched to digital I lost one-fifth of my stations. (from 20 downto 4). Buying a bigger antenna helped but I'm still only getting half as many stations as previously.

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TV Band/whitespace Devices will block my Baltimore/Philly stations. No more channels 2,3,6,10,11,12,13,17,35,45,57,61,65