I guess I can pick em… because I don’t think there’s a meter on any TV I have.
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storms are causing pixelation on all channels. Are you seeing a issue with orlando storms?
There has to be some sort of overtuning involved as prior to me adding the attenuators I had periods in the morning and evenings where the issues were so bad we couldn’t even watch television.
It improved very slightly, but still noticeable when I installed the 3-db attenutor, then when the 10-db was delivered I replaced the 3-db with the 10-db and things improved much more, still some problems but watchable with some interference. When I added back the 3-db with the 10-db it was markedly better. In fact, there was no more pixelation until the night before last when there was pretty good line of thunderstorms between me and the towers in Orlando, and then the pixelation was not horrible, but much more noticeable. Today they problem is once again gone, with no pixelation that I can notice.
I will not look a gift horse in the mouth, but guess the signal must be too strong from the preamp, but the attenuators placed at the end of the connection and immediately into the Tablo, must be lowering the signal just enough to make things better. I hope it stays this way. 
No, not seeing any problems with my reception tonight. It is very good, actually.
Same here. I have the Sony and an older Samsung Plasma and neither of them have any sort of meter, unless I just don’t know how to get to them.
Ordered the 3 db. Hope its enough. Lot of pixalating with storms.
I’m not so confident it will help when there’s storms. The attenuator is to reduce a strong signal. In our cases, or at least in mine, my preamp is just too strong and over-tunes my channels. I think you mentioned Tablo support said some of your channels were almost too high as well, and the attenuator could help for those.
Oddly, WESH was not strong, but so far I don’t seem to have problems even after adding the attenuators. METV was a bit noisy tonight, maybe due to those storms, but still not to the extent to make it unwatchable.
I hope your problem is alleviated when you get your attenuator. I put connected mine directly into the Tablo and then the antenna cable into the attenuators.
Hi, are you getting 6.1 or 6.2 now, seems like I lost them?
No, they both are now coming back as weak signal.
They had some pretty heavy rains in Orlando area; I-4 was flooded. I wonder if that has something to do with it?
Back on now, both channels.
thanks, yes back on.
I thought all those fancy-pants OLED displays had the same or better software than the IPS “super” LCD displays on the cheaper models. On my SJ8500, to access the meter:
(LG webOS version 05.80.15)
All Settings > Channel Tuning > Manual Tuning > Antenna DTV > Channel Number (select the actual channel from a pop up menu or scroll up or down with the channel selector on the remote, not the virtual or sub-channel).
There are two on screen display bars- “Signal Strength” and “Signal Quality” that display as a bar graph with a numeric percentage value (there’s no reference, so it’s unknown if that’s dBm, dB, whatever- so the readout isn’t easily related to that from another device). If you move the antenna, or multi path conditions exist, the Strength Meter will move.
Now you’re going to make me look … (haven’t yet)… but it’s probably there. Not exactly sure what the point is though. You either have a good setup or you don’t.
Hi, Were having a good amount of storm activity, Im getting pixiation and loss of stations, are you having that also?? Im wondering if its normal to loose them in storms. Checked off tablo n regular ota and found heavy pixelation with signal fluctuation.
I haven’t tried other channels, but channel 9.1, WFTV (ABC), hasn’t been a problem so far all morning. Just checked real quick on WESH and METV. also not seeing any immediate problems. Haven’t watched them for a long time, however, so maybe would pop up if I kept watching.
Did you receive your attenuator? I received my 6db and swapped it out with the 3db yesterday, so now have 16db attenuation. Yesterday and today it seems fine, maybe improved but time will tell.
I put a splitter on with a cable going to tablo, then to tv direct. I did that so as to check the signal easier.The split helped because as a previous post has said it lowers the signal, It did a small amount 3db. After that, it did help, then added the 3db and made no difference, so removed it. This morning the storms were here with heavy rain, it made me loose all my channels, saying weak signal. actually w/o tablo it was fluctuating from strong to non signal rapidly, till storms passed. Now all back to normal, full signal.Im not sure that can be fixed, its weather related.But you have no trouble with the weather, go figure.The facrt is I’m further from towers than you, that may be the difference. Off subject, should we be starting a new thread?,seeing its a different subject.
Might not be a bad idea to start a new discussion. Do you want to ope/start one?
The other difference is I have a much stronger pre-amp, but I am also dropping it quite a bit. Not sure if that makes any difference, or not.
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Just noticed your post on signal meter.Mine is a samsung,to find meter ,see if you have this. Go to menu>support>self diagnoses>signal information.I of course go directly thru tv, not tablo.
Sorry I am so late to this discussion and I know this post was some time ago, but I am an Attorney and have fought this issue with multiple associations (all for myself as the client I must add), so just want to post this as some general information for everyone here.
OTARD rule will override any association rule or regulation against installing an outdoor antenna. Common Elements may still be a concern though and will most often effect townhomes and condominiums.
An association can not stop you from installing any antenna, so long as it is on your property and not common elements. This makes it easy in single family home and even townhomes, but condos can sometimes be more difficult to find a place that is acceptable for antenna installation. With condos you often limited to your balcony, which may not work out so well for reception.
I had one association go as far as bringing in their attorneys to come after me to force me to take down my antenna. I ended up sending them a case where a guy had 12 antennas in his back yard and actually sounded like an eyesore to me. He not only was able to keep his antenna’s but the association had to pay his 6 digit attorney fees.
In my case, I threatened to charge the association my hourly rate and then offered to move the antenna anywhere they were more comfortable with, so long as they paid for all costs. They agreed to pay for relocation, but later just dropped it rather than spend the money.
Once I both went over the statute with the associations attorneys and pointed out how they were not reading little things, like commas and the word "And’ vs “Or” and then sent them that one case, they backed off.
Very hard to find these cases mind you, as they are all inside the FCC’s website and the search engine is abominable. I had to read through thousands of cases until I found the few that deal with OTA antennas. Of course there are thousands on Satellite Dishes as this directly effected the satellite companies revenue streams, so they were willing to take up the battles.