I was in Seattle last weekend. I notice that TV reception and radio reception is horrible in Seattle. For Tv, there are a lot of ghosting effect, even in the city where the TV towers are. Which area of the Puget sound would be the best place to put a TV or radio attenna? Tiger Mountain? Cougar? Queen Anne? Capitol Hill? Gold Mountain? or Port of Defiance?
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eastsidah
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> I was in Seattle last weekend. I notice that TV reception
> and radio reception is horrible in Seattle. For Tv, there
> are a lot of ghosting effect, even in the city where the TV
> towers are. Which area of the Puget sound would be the best
> place to put a TV or radio attenna? Tiger Mountain? Cougar?
> Queen Anne? Capitol Hill? Gold Mountain? or Port of
> Defiance?
>
The best place to put them is most likely right where they are or else they would be somewhere else if they could be moved.
Quality of reception depends on a lot of different factors, not the least of which is the type/location of the antenna you are using for reception. You might find that what you refer to as "ghosting" might possibly be that your antenna is a higher gain antenna and is causing TOO STRONG of a signal to be delivered into your tv tuner, which I undersand can cause picture degradation. Likewise, if you are using "rabbit ears" indoors depending on the area, you're not likely to get a perfect picture...
(Btw...probably don't want to say "Point of Defiance" to a local)
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by eastsidah on 10/15/05 06:01 AM.</FONT></P>
> and radio reception is horrible in Seattle. For Tv, there
> are a lot of ghosting effect, even in the city where the TV
> towers are. Which area of the Puget sound would be the best
> place to put a TV or radio attenna? Tiger Mountain? Cougar?
> Queen Anne? Capitol Hill? Gold Mountain? or Port of
> Defiance?
>
The best place to put them is most likely right where they are or else they would be somewhere else if they could be moved.
Quality of reception depends on a lot of different factors, not the least of which is the type/location of the antenna you are using for reception. You might find that what you refer to as "ghosting" might possibly be that your antenna is a higher gain antenna and is causing TOO STRONG of a signal to be delivered into your tv tuner, which I undersand can cause picture degradation. Likewise, if you are using "rabbit ears" indoors depending on the area, you're not likely to get a perfect picture...
(Btw...probably don't want to say "Point of Defiance" to a local)
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by eastsidah on 10/15/05 06:01 AM.</FONT></P>
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AQH
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Too many hills.
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Kelly
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> I was in Seattle last weekend. I notice that TV reception
> and radio reception is horrible in Seattle. For Tv, there
> are a lot of ghosting effect, even in the city where the TV
> towers are. Which area of the Puget sound would be the best
> place to put a TV or radio attenna? Tiger Mountain? Cougar?
> Queen Anne? Capitol Hill? Gold Mountain? or Port of
> Defiance?
There is no perfect place to put a FM antenna other than perhaps the 14,000ft level of Mt. Rainier.
Some stations migrated to places like W. Tiger because of a King County moratorium for new stations on Cougar. KBSG started the trend as a Tacoma station realizing there wasn't money to be made as ONLY a Tacoma station. KMTT, KRPM (at the time), and other Tacoma stations were the same way. Most Tiger stations also currently have back-up sites on Cougar.
> and radio reception is horrible in Seattle. For Tv, there
> are a lot of ghosting effect, even in the city where the TV
> towers are. Which area of the Puget sound would be the best
> place to put a TV or radio attenna? Tiger Mountain? Cougar?
> Queen Anne? Capitol Hill? Gold Mountain? or Port of
> Defiance?
There is no perfect place to put a FM antenna other than perhaps the 14,000ft level of Mt. Rainier.
Some stations migrated to places like W. Tiger because of a King County moratorium for new stations on Cougar. KBSG started the trend as a Tacoma station realizing there wasn't money to be made as ONLY a Tacoma station. KMTT, KRPM (at the time), and other Tacoma stations were the same way. Most Tiger stations also currently have back-up sites on Cougar.
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