ATSC hand held TV

[Richard O'Neill]

  Alex, I have some experience using a little 3.5" Auvio battery 
operated digital TV, mostly sitting (not driving) in my car and while 
camping. Using the built-in antenna I don't receive much in the Waldorf, 
Maryland area either. The tiny whip antenna isn't very good at capturing 
low power digital transmissions unless very close to the station's 
antenna. Fortunately my TV has antenna, earphone and external power 
jacks. When connected to an old RCA 'flying saucer' amplified antennas I 
currently receive more than 40 channels from DC, Va and Baltimore area 
broadcasts.

  I've also had very good reception when connected to an indoor VHF-UHF 
amplified antenna while in my camper van, stopped for the night near 
large cities such as Indy and St. Louis. One of the biggest drawbacks to 
these little sets is their hefty power consumption. My Auvio TV runs on 
AA cells but I power it from a 6V, 7AR gel cell. It eats AA cells much 
too fast. The antenna amp is powered from the car's 12 cigarette lighter 
socket while the antenna sits on the van's dash or roof. I haven't tried 
reception while moving but past experiments with analog TV suggest 
reception would most likely be poor to unwatchable.

Richard


On 4/26/2014 2:44 PM, Alex Fraser wrote:
> I bought a used Digital Prism atsc-300 today.  It works, but I can't 
> pick up many channels in Woodbridge.  This little box only has a small 
> telescoping whip on it.  I'll play around clipping on external 
> antennas, but I think it will come to opening it up and soldering on a 
> jack of some sort.  How does digital TV handle motion, like driving?
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