A snowy time in Lansing this week as we met and answered questions from viewers in the Mid- Michigan viewing areas. We had shipped some evaluation antennas to the WLNS engineers prior to our arrival , and they were blown away at how well the Clearstream antennas worked in their market. They had set up 4 televisions connected to a ClearStream 2 in a storage closet laying on its back (not some thing we recommend) and still managed to lock in all the local stations.
One of the engineers set up a ClearStream 1 in the GM’s office and was very surprised that it was able to get a reliable lock on all their local stations. A feat they were unable to accomplish with other compact designs.
We met with some local antenna installers who brought signal meters to see for themselves if the antennas would live up to our claims. They were surprised by the high VHF performance of the ClearStreams. which will be particularly important as there will be a couple of high VHF stations in Mid-Michigan after February 2009.
We also had a chance to meet with some of the members of the Michigan Association of Broadcasters and have subsequently heard that they were astounded by the performance of the evaluation antennas we had sent them. (“Absolutley amazing!” were the words from one tester) If schedules permit, we hope to be able to take them up on their invitation to present a technical paper on antenna development methodology at their annual meeting in March.