Newbie Question, Padding Down a signal?

[sajanisch]

came across a posting from Jim Hall regarding some success with getting a better CBS-58 (ota) signal. it suggested splitting the UHF and VHF signal, padding one of them down and then recombining

newbie question:
how does one 'pad down' a signal?

(posting was from 3/15/2002 in Technical Issues forum - I saw someone put a shortcut to another forum posting in their posting - how do you do that?)

thanks, Scott

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Princeton Graphics 32" Monitor
(with built in tuner/HDTV compatible)
HiDTV Pro 2 computer reciever card
Terk-55 Roof Antenna and Rotor

[MesaV]

Attenuators: Radio Shack has them: http://www.radioshack.com/searchplus.asp?type=ALL&find=attenuator&pagetype=toggle

[This message has been edited by MesaV (edited 01-02-2003).]

[Gregg Lengling]

Originally posted by sajanisch:
came across a posting from Jim Hall regarding some success with getting a better CBS-58 (ota) signal. it suggested splitting the UHF and VHF signal, padding one of them down and then recombining

newbie question:
how does one 'pad down' a signal?
You can buy attentuator pads that have female connectors on both sides that are just like your splitters ect...however you can buy them in 3, 6, 10, 20 dB increments. What this does is reduces the amount of signal fed to your receiver to remove objectional interference or multipath signals.

(posting was from 3/15/2002 in Technical Issues forum - I saw someone put a shortcut to another forum posting in their posting - how do you do that?)
Just highlight and right click on the URL in the address box and hit copy, then go to the message you are posting here and right click and use paste. Like this referencing another thread on this forum. http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000183.html
thanks, Scott