The long awaited switch to digital TV will take place next week. I spent a lot of time researching converter boxes and I selected the Zenith DTT901 based upon recommendations for best weak signal reception. I installed it on Monday and was very impressed with the reception.
BlueJacket is in Portsmouth, RI and I was able to pick up about 20 Boston stations, which is about 50 miles away. I had scanned for the channels at home, which is ~25 miles due west of Boston, and forgot the controller, so I wasn’t able to access the menus to rescan in Portsmouth. However, it received, without any breakup, all of the channels that it found at home. Note that before I installed this, I could barely watch channel 7 out of Boston and only got 2 UHF channels.
Sears sells the Zenith DTT901 for $50. You can get a $40 coupon from the US government https://www.dtv2009.gov/ which drops the cost to $10. Note, you have to pay cash if you use the coupon!
Anyhow, I can highly recommend the unit. Note that other units have better Electronic Program Guides (EPG), but I was primarily interested in weak signal reception.
– Geoff
and noted that the antenna cable was floating free of the antenna and connector! I had been working on the WiFi antenna and I guess that I pulled on the cable, causing it to pull out of the connector. I was only using a twist-on gold-plated connector and it had managed to work loose.