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This weekend I bought a Terk Trinity tri-modal indoors HDTV antenna for receiving local Over The Air digital broadcasts. It was kind of an impulse buy because I intended to research it more and order online but there we were in Meier and this one was double boosted- amplied at antennas (has three) and then amps that signal to the TV's input. It also looked quite attractive, sort of like a very thin wireless router with three articulatible pole antennas. It doesn't look bad at all on the a/v shelf next to the tv.
So anyhow my TV has a signal meter in the menu for OTA digital signal strength. I've noticed that if the signal drops below 70 (scale of 0 -100) the picture drops out and I get a text box advising "weak or no signal" then it will come back and work okay until it drops below 70 again. This is on a clear day with no bad weather weather. Only one of the channels does that, the others show a signal strength of 80 or better and stay pretty steady. I'm probably about 15 miles from the broadcast towers. It is the local NBC affiliate that drops below 70 every so often and drops out for a second or two.
So anyhow my TV has a signal meter in the menu for OTA digital signal strength. I've noticed that if the signal drops below 70 (scale of 0 -100) the picture drops out and I get a text box advising "weak or no signal" then it will come back and work okay until it drops below 70 again. This is on a clear day with no bad weather weather. Only one of the channels does that, the others show a signal strength of 80 or better and stay pretty steady. I'm probably about 15 miles from the broadcast towers. It is the local NBC affiliate that drops below 70 every so often and drops out for a second or two.