It being a Sunday with reasonable weather, Mom took up the gauntlet against the sea of technical troubles involved in feeding her voracious visual content appetite. What I think is, Mom doesn’t want to fall behind Corwin’s dual stream consuming so she’s pushing to get dual reception1. Or she just likes the roof. I must admit, there are no children there.
Today’s project was trying to get a TV antenna on the roof in a state such that it can receive local digital TV station signals. Mom was mostly successful, at one point getting 8 different signals. Unfortunately the reception seems very sensitive to exact placement and she had to go up another couple times because just the strain from moving the cable around to hook up to the media center would take out channels. On the other hand, rather than fight the dual input multiplexer / demultiplexer system, she just drilled another hole in the wall near where the current cable comes in and ran the cable from the TV antenna through it to the same outlet on the inside wall (which has space for two connectors).
I think it an tolerable success, with reception of the local PBS station working. I don’t really know, the only thing I use the system for these days is Guitar Hero2.
1 As noted, I just accept the mockery of my more technically adept spawn.
2 I got another Perfect on Medium last week — Even Flow by Pearl Jam.