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In Reply to: M-D signal strength meter posted by cdb on December 24, 2006 at 11:09:25:
I also have the md102t.The signal strength meter is designed to never
go to 10 no matter how strong the signal so as not to break the meter.Under ideal reception I have no noise when the signal is good.
(objectional noise that is).The signal strength meter will not indicate to you how good an antenna is.My tuner also is consistently
at about a little over the eight.But I can tell you first hand after
using the St2 and going to a 30 ft yagi with a rotator that you will
not hear the full sound quality of this phenomenal tuner without a top flight antenna and their still will be no change in the signal
strenghth meter.I use the delhi Qfm9 FM antenna.Forthe money it works
very well for my area.Hope that helps.
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which leads to the obvious Q. of just what it's purpose is. As it is, it appears quite useless.
I actually had mine tweaked so that the most powerful stations hit "9" instead of "8."If you have an LED-type signal strength display it's no big deal, but with a real needle-type meter you have to prevent it from "pinning" hard on a constant basis. In actual use, under many common reception conditions, that can happen easily.
The real value of a nice analog meter like this is what it tells you at lower levels. As dudeupshaw says, it helps you orient your antenna for the weaker stations. For the strong ones, some of them perhaps only a few miles away, signal strength is not the issue anyway.
So, far from being "useless" it is actually telling you what you need to know. Stations that hit "8" or above are so far above the tuner's full-quieting range that knowing their signal strength is of no practical value.
When you have a rotator you can use it as a guide to judge the direction of the antenna.If you have a signal that is very weak
how wouls you know.
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