[whyteknt]

I just thought I'd post my results with this antenna.

I'd been trying an number of simple outdoor omni-directional atenna's (both a double loop [figure 8] and a flat grill type antenna), but was not having any sucess getting all my HD channels. I could usualy get 5 out of 7 channels, but whatever position I had it in, I could not seem to get them all at once. So I bought this Mant940 phillips - hoping it would do the trick. Figured it should work great on the roof hooked to my satelite dish.

It really didn't do much better than the other antenna's I'd tried before, it would pull in good signals on all but one or two stations, and then if I adjusted the antenna to get the missing stations, I'd drop the signal from one of the other channels I was getting. To it's credit, the Mant940 is easy to adust and does attach to a satelite mast very nicely. But I will be returning mine to Walmart tomorrow.

after spending hours of antenna adjusting, I had an appifiany: I went to dollar store and bought a simple coax splitter, and used it as a coupler to hood up two different antennas, and send both different antenna signals back down to my Kworld ASTC 110 card through the single line.

This seems to be working quite well. Wish I had just thought of this solution before wasting my time trying to find the one 'perfect' antenna. I suspect, that if I had started with a large outdoor antenna with multiple elements - that would have been the perfect solution.

I would suggest to those of you having problems getting your outdoor antenna to pick up all stations - try a dual antenna setup, worked for me.

and the splitter only cost a buck....(love that dollar store)....

now my only final issue is a loss of audio synch that occurs quite regularly that requires me to shut down the BTV4 player window, and restarting it. Everything is usually in synch after I restart, and all my recordings are fine. I suspect this is an audio driver issue (I'm using onboard audio due to a lack of an extra PCI slot for an audio card). I plan to log a ticket here in the next day or so on this problem.