Originally Posted By: martinfocazio
Originally Posted By: Art_in_FL

With digital TV the rotator is pretty important. A few degrees can make a real difference as digital TV is essentially go/no-go. You either get enough signal to assemble a nearly perfect picture or you get nothing at all.

I am unaware of any system that automates the positioning of the antenna based on the currently tuned signal. Are you?


There are supposed to be high-end sets that will do that automatically but most rotators are manual, like mine, or semi-automatic. Semi-automatic units will allow you to associate a channel number with a compass azimuth and they can save a step or two.

Almost all the channels I get are available reliably on one azimuth. But there is one channel I seldom watch that sometimes, when the weather doesn't cooperate, requires that I mess with the rotator and watch the signal strength available through the 'display mode' of the digital converter.