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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1307260" data-attributes="member: 141969">An aerial amplifier can boost only the signal that it receives as input. If the signal already has drop-outs caused by atmospheric conditions corrupting the signal, the aerial amplifier cannot correct those drop-outs. If the extent of the drop-outs exceeds the error-correction capability of the tuner decoder, the drop-outs will be audible and/or visible on screen.I do use a one input/four output aerial amplifier adjacent to my HTPC, but that is so that I can feed the two inputs on my TBS 6284 card, the one input on my Pinnacle 2000i card, and the input on the TV, with signals at the same signal level. But I don't think that it reduces pixelation or audible chirps.I should add that I too have experienced more-frequent pixelation and chirping over the summer (Rowridge transmitter). I think that this may be due to the exceptional weather that we have had this year. Possibly reception will return to &quot;normal&quot; as winter approaches.-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1307260, member: 141969"] An aerial amplifier can boost only the signal that it receives as input. If the signal already has drop-outs caused by atmospheric conditions corrupting the signal, the aerial amplifier cannot correct those drop-outs. If the extent of the drop-outs exceeds the error-correction capability of the tuner decoder, the drop-outs will be audible and/or visible on screen. I do use a one input/four output aerial amplifier adjacent to my HTPC, but that is so that I can feed the two inputs on my TBS 6284 card, the one input on my Pinnacle 2000i card, and the input on the TV, with signals at the same signal level. But I don't think that it reduces pixelation or audible chirps. I should add that I too have experienced more-frequent pixelation and chirping over the summer (Rowridge transmitter). I think that this may be due to the exceptional weather that we have had this year. Possibly reception will return to "normal" as winter approaches. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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