FUNDRAISER:<\/b>\u00a0 Our 6th Annual Hidden Bear Trail ATV Club Fundraiser will be on Saturday August 18th, 2018 at Animal\u2019s Bear Trail Inn on the corner of Hwy 64 and Hwy T Mountain WI from Noon to 6:00 pm.\u00a0 We will have food, refreshments, meat raffle, 50-50 raffles, gun raffle, packer autographed football raffle and our large cash raffle drawing will be 6:00 pm.\u00a0 Please feel free to bring friends and families, members or non-members.\u00a0 This event is open to the public.\u00a0 All money raised from this event will go back into opening new ATV Trails and maintaining the current ATV Trails.\u00a0 At 11:00 am we will have our 2nd membership meeting at the same location.\u00a0 We will be setting up for the event starting at 9:00 am on Saturday, if you can help, please be there at 9:00 am.\u00a0 Hope to see you all there!!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Here are a couple of scenic pictures..<\/p>\n
<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nKurt e-mailed me this week about getting over the air TV in Silver Cliff. I gave him a very detailed recipe for what works for me, and will share it because other people want to know this. Here goes.<\/p>\n
Hi Kurt,<\/span> > I have local TV at my house here near C & F in Silver Cliff. It isn’t easy<\/span> > but it can be done in most places that don’t have big physical barriers.<\/span> > <\/span> > I bought the biggest deep fringe digital antenna that Fleet Farm had, it<\/span> > was about $100. It is up about 15-20 feet and my elevation is just over<\/span> > 1000′ above sea level. I am in a wooded area. My antenna looks exactly<\/span> > like this. https:\/\/www.solidsignal.com\/pview.asp?p=cm-3020<\/a><\/span> > <\/span> > <\/span><\/p>\n
I use a 36db signal booster that injects the signal up by the antenna and<\/span> > has a box by the TV. Mine looks just like this but it has an injector up<\/span> > on the pole too.<\/span> > https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/NEW-36DB-CABLE-TV-ANTENNA-INLINE-BOOSTER-COAX-SIGNAL-AMPLIFIER-WITH-GAIN-CONTROL\/302010961643<\/a><\/span> > <\/span> > The box by the TV sends power up the coax to the amp on the antenna. It<\/span> > amplifies the signal right off of the antenna. The box by the TV filters<\/span> > out the power before sending the signal to the TV.<\/span> > <\/span> ><\/span><\/p>\n
**The takeaway here is that it has to have the amplifier part up on the<\/span> > antenna before the already weak signal is eaten by the coax line loss.**<\/span> > We are not dealing with a strong signal and you will lose a lot (most) of<\/span> > it in even 50′ of coax. I learned that the hard way.<\/span> > <\/span> ><\/span><\/p>\n
I use a top quality balun matching transformer to convert it from the<\/span> > antenna to the amplifier. I don’t know if it is a local issue but I burn<\/span> > these out about once a year. The cheap ones don’t work well. Don’t get<\/span> > cheap on coax cable either. Use high end well shielded coax cable. I<\/span> > learned those lessons the hard way.<\/span> > <\/span> > <\/span><\/p>\n
With that kit I get 22 digital channels out of Green Bay. I did not get<\/span> > the rotor, but I have turned it manually and gotten channels out of Iron<\/span> > Mountain, Wausau, and Rhinelander. Green Bay has more to offer so I leave<\/span> > it pointed there.<\/span> > While rare, the other night the ‘skip’ was in and signals were bouncing<\/span> > crazy. I was only getting some Green Bay channels but I was getting<\/span> > Milwaukee channels wall to wall. That was unusual atmospheric conditions.<\/span> > Ham and CB radio guy know about that.<\/span> > <\/span> ><\/span><\/p>\n
I don’t recall the exact degrees that I pointed the antenna, but it was a<\/span> > little farther east than I expected.<\/span> > <\/span> > <\/span><\/p>\n
I have a friend that has one of these goofy looking all in one<\/span> > antenna\/booster\/rotator in one unit. It is up on a high phone pole. When<\/span> > it works, it works ok. Mine works way way better. He is also on his 3rd<\/span> > one. One was lightning, one was probably the bal-un, but he just replaced<\/span> > the whole kit. This is just an example of one. They vary a lot.<\/span> > https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/Indoor-Outdoor-TV-Antenna-HD-Digital-360-UV-Dual-band-Amplified-Booster\/283078720610<\/a><\/span> > <\/span> > <\/span><\/p>\n
One last thought is to make sure that the antenna is level. You are<\/span> > looking over the horizon with a thin area of signal making it past the<\/span> > curvature of the earth. Having the antenna pointing up or down even a<\/span> > little makes a big difference at 85 miles out.<\/span> > <\/span> ><\/span><\/p>\n
This project can be done in an afternoon for most people. Properly done<\/span> > you can have a great system with 22 digital HD channels for about $200<\/span> > plus whatever mount or tower that you would want.<\/span> > There are exceptions around here where people are deep in a river valley<\/span> > or behind a mountain. The only way around that is a tower that can see<\/span> > over the horizon or satellite.<\/span> > <\/span> > <\/span><\/p>\n
Sorry for the TMI. This is one project that I learned the hard way an<\/span> element at a time that details matter. That and other people want to know<\/span> > this. I figured as long as I writing it out I’d share it with my web<\/span> friends too.<\/span> > <\/span> > Good luck and best wishes-<\/span> > <\/span> > Ray<\/span> > <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nTime for me to get back to work. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!<\/span><\/p>\n
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RJB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greetings and welcome! We have a pretty nice weekend ahead. I am looking for highs in the low 80s and lows around 60. There will be a little humidity though. There is a chance on an isolated shower or storm today otherwise the next rain chance is for Monday and Tuesday. We really could use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerndestinations.com\/scindex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}