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kingdragonfly

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#204763 16-Oct-2016 12:40
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I'm a bit stumped. I have a roof-top UHF antenna, professionally installed, with line-of-sight to the DVB-T Mount Kau Kau attenna in Wellington.

I'm having real trouble with the Kordia stations, like Prime, but the TVNZ and MediaWorks are rock solid.

When I watch Kordia live, it stutters very badly, and most of the time the screen / audio is full of garbage.

As I said, TVNZ and MediaWorks are solid

MediaPortal signal meter even tells me as much, with 85%-100%, except on Kordia where it's 50%.

I have a Windows 10 PC, with the latest drivers for my TBS 6205 quad tuner.

Any suggestion how I can improve Kordia channels?
NextPVR software has the same problem

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kingdragonfly

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  #1692151 19-Dec-2016 12:34
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OK This is the world's stupidest solution to a problem.

A UHF antenna has elements that stick up about every 8 cm.

The antenna installer failed to lift the elements of the antenna; they were shipped laying down horizontal to pretect them. They flip up, and a notch holds them vertical.

A different antenna installer said the other guy was an idiot, and always left the elements down, in its shipping state.

He flipped the elements to vertical, without even needing any tools.

I noticed my neighbor's house, who used the same idiot, also had her elements horizontal (in its shipping state), not vertical.

No telling how many antennas this guy has installed in our neighborhood, Churton Park / Johnsonville in Wellington.

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