Does anyone know of a signal strength indicator software tool to run on a PC to show the results for DVB-T channels? I saw that there is some software for "blackgold" cards that do this. I wanted something I could run on my Nova-T-500 and see both signal strength and quality. Would make setting up my aerial a lot easier.
The general word amongst the gurus is that every driver does signal strength and quality differently so it is hard for an app to cater to all the different scales.
Run it and add channels (using option 1) as follows 538000 then at the next prompt enter "8" Mbs press 1 to add channel again 570000 8 Mbs again press 1 to add channel again 666000 8 Mbs
These are the channels for Waitara, you can easily enter your local channels from the sticky topic "NZ Freeview HD Guide" in this forum.
Then run option 2 "Generate Channels.ini"
I got a resulting output on screen;
# locked 538000, 8 signal locked = Y present = Y stength = 51 quality = -100
If you use Option 4 you can enter a specific frequency, like 538,000 above and the * Mbs bandwidth and then see it displaying signal quality and strength as a new line every second. You can watch this as you adjust your antenna, boosters etc and see the effect in real time.
I noticed it starts at about quality 10 and then goes to 40, then 60 and holds there. Seems it takes a second or two for the Nova T to lock in on a frequency.
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