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| Winegard HD7694P Review #0 |
| Rating: 4 (good) |
Nickname: CannotAffordCableAny |
Date: 2010-11-06 |
| Summary: Works like its supposed to |
| Location info: I\m in South Seattle. The mainstream stations coming from Queen Anne Hill (4, 5, 7, 16) are all in the Red Zone for my location. The stations from Capitol Hill (9, 11, 22) are Yellow/Green. Both hills are north from where I live (320-330 degrees). The stations from Tiger Mountain (33, 42, 46, 51) are Yellow, but off to the east (90 degrees).
Antenna\s up on the roof, 5 ft mast, 35 ft RG-6 cable run to splitter. One side went to TV, other side went to another TV via an additional 50 ft cable run. I pointed it towards QA/Capitol Hill. Antenna works fine for stations coming from there, but just barely for the ones from the east, with some pixelation during a rain storm. (This antenna is directional.) I previously tried an indoor antenna, but got only the stations transmitting from Tiger Mountain.
Note: The TV with the longer cable run had much better reception because the tuner is relatively new. The reception on the TV with the shorter cable run wasn\t as good, but it is 5 years old--it likely has an older generation ATSC tuner.
A note about channel 44: This used to come from Tiger Mountain and I\ve had some problems catching this one. But this week I\ve started getting a much stronger signal. According to TVFool.com, it\s now transmitting from Capitol Hill, which probably explains why. I\ll just have to wait and see if it\s true... |
| Winegard HD7694P Review #1 |
| Rating: 5 (excellent) |
Nickname: rpo |
Date: 2010-02-21 |
| Summary: Finally one that works! |
| I tried two indoor antenna\s before finally buying the outdoor Winegard HD7694P:
First, I tried the Terk HDTVa indoor antenna. I was able to occasionally receive all but one channel (10), but the thing was so horribly designed that it could not stand up on its own. It was only able to pick up stations if I pointed it directly out a window in the right direction.
Second, I tried the Winegard SS-3000. This antenna did a bit better, but was just not quite powerful enough to keep channel 10 locked in all the time from 36 miles away. It was only able to pick up stations if I pointed it directly out a window in the right direction also.
Then, I purchased the Winegard HD7694P. I live in a condo, and trying to put this antenna outside would have been a disaster. I have access to my attic, so I hung it with nylon twine from the diagonal rafters. Even without an amplifier (the two previous antennas had them), every station came in with signal qualities near 100%. This antenna is having to receive all signals from 36 miles away, over one hill, through my tile roof, through the metal covering under the tile roof, through the plywood, and then through 100 feet of coax. In other words, it has many more obstacles than the amplified indoor antennas had to deal worth, and it is working perfectly. I cannot praise it enough. and it was cheaper than the other two antennas! ($47) |
| Winegard HD7694P Review #2 |
| Rating: 5 (excellent) |
Nickname: Spidey |
Date: 2010-01-17 |
| Summary: I finally get Fox11 from L.A. |
| I live in Southern Riverside county about 70 miles from Mount Wilson in LA and about the same distance or less from scattered antenna sites in San Diego. My first antenna attempt was an ebay special with an amplifier, it was in my budget at the time, but I was not able to get channel 11 or 13 or a few other PBS channels. The NFL playoffs forced me to do more research for an inexpensive antenna that would pull in the Fox signal. This forum helped with my decision to get the Winegard hd7694p. I was a little skeptical whether it would do the job or not since I am farther away from the tower than suggested for this antenna. To make a long story short I went to Fry\s and bought the antenna for 55.00, put it on the roof and I now get all of the channels that I could not get before plus a higher signal strength on all of the channels I got with the old antenna. |
| Winegard HD7694P Review #3 |
| Rating: 5 (excellent) |
Nickname: Tigerbangs |
Date: 2008-12-26 |
| Summary: The answer to many reception problems! |
| If you live in a moderate signal area, but have trouble with digital signals dropping in and out, this antenna may just solve your problem. It is good gain on the high-band VHF and UF bands, and is compact and well-made. Not a deep-fringe monster, but perfect for the suburban viewer whose reception needs a boost. I would suggest it's use up to about 40 miles from the transmitters, but be sure to use an amplifier if you plan to run multiple TV sets with this antenna. |
| Winegard HD7694P Review #4 |
| Rating: 3 (average) |
Nickname: anonymous |
Date: 2010-10-28 |
| Summary: Works, but not as well as I had hoped. |
| I had an indoor 1-bay bow tie style antenna that I was using prior to mounting this beast in my attic. This one doesn't pull in any of the UHF channels as well, and just barely beats the single bay antenna when it comes to VHF. I am able to get the one VHF channel I really wanted (NBC), but in the process, I lost a few lesser UHF channels that I didn't watch much. It just seems like an antenna this big would be able to pick up all of the above as well as the little antenna sitting in my livingroom. You can tell that it is very directional too... if it's a couple degrees off (and I mean 2 or 3) you lose channels completely. The bow tie antenna can be oriented in just about any direction and still pick up just as much... even when mounted indoors and 10' lower. So, while I am using this as my primary antenna, I'm not super impressed with it. I'm guessing that the specs are exaggerated; otherwise, it should have bested my little antenna in every way. |
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