tv antenna

[Oldpath05]

I graduated to an amateur TBN corespondent, full of uneducated advice and narrow minded opinions, people at work say I'm full of something else.

 

[k0ua]

I graduated to an amateur TBN corespondent, full of uneducated advice and narrow minded opinions, people at work say I'm full of something else.

Well, you are one of the gang now for sure.

 

[Xfaxman]

I want to save this valuable thread with a short story with a real question to get a second opinion from someone who has done what I want to do in the not to distant future, read that three times fast.

I have a Winegard 7084p on my house with a pre-amp and 40' of RG6 cable, I want to put another W. 7084 on my garage>(50' away) with a pre-amp and 60-70' of cable, pointing in another direction to eliminate the NEED of a Chinese junk antenna rotor. How/what do I need to join 2 cables into 1 cable, To//AT my TV?

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Does the Great Antenna Guru's here concur with that?

Are you sure that you need that big old style Analog TV antenna?

Will you also have it connected to a FM radio?

Are there any VHF Low Band TV stations in that direction?

And why not mount the new antenna above or below the old antenna?

There are better cheaper antennas available if you don't need VHF LOW Band, This is a good one: Channel Master CM316 Suburban Advantage TV Antenna (CM316) from Solid Signal


This is what we use, a Channel Master CM2016, but the TV stations are only about 30 miles away

 

[buickanddeere]

Don't bother with an antenna that includes channels 2-6. The low frequency elements are wide and catch excessive wind loading and ice loading. Not having the elements for 2-6 also reduces interference from FM radio stations .

 

[Oldpath05]

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Are you sure that you need that big old style Analog TV antenna?<<<<< Not sure..........

Will you also have it connected to a FM radio?<<<<<<<<<<< No.....

Are there any VHF Low Band TV stations in that direction?<<<< I think 2.1 and 2.3 from Bangor is VHF.....

And why not mount the new antenna above or below the old antenna?<<< My garage is/looks 4' higher then my house.......

There are better cheaper antennas available if you don't need VHF LOW Band, This is a good one: Channel Master CM316 Suburban Advantage TV Antenna (CM316) from Solid Signal


This is what we use, a Channel Master CM2016, but the TV stations are only about 30 miles away

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I use to have a 10'-ish Chanel Master on my old garage with rotor because it was higher then my house. I could get channels in Bangor<60 mi. and Portland<70 mi., both citys are in oppisset direction. The Channel Master rotor always froze up in the winter, hard to rotate. Now I'd like to mount another antenna on my new garage which looks to be 4' higher then my house, the antenna on my house now wont get all the channels in from Portland, I was hopping it would, but gets all the channel from Bangor.

I kinda want to get rid of needing to depend on these Chinese junk rota-tor's to get channel from both directions, that's where the idea of having two antennas comes in, just click on the channel, theatricality, but to d that I need to join two cable's into one, and one side note, my new garage has a metal roof, wonder if that helps or makes it worse...........

 

[Oldpath05]

Don't bother with an antenna that includes channels 2-6. The low frequency elements are wide and catch excessive wind loading and ice loading. Not having the elements for 2-6 also reduces interference from FM radio stations .

Ice on one of my old antennas is what ruin it, that's why I wanted to try Winegard see how that will hold up, but this past mild winter was not a real test. I think 2.1 from Bangor is broadcasting in VHF.

 

[Xfaxman]

Don't bother with an antenna that includes channels 2-6. The low frequency elements are wide and catch excessive wind loading and ice loading. Not having the elements for 2-6 also reduces interference from FM radio stations .

You may be watching channels 2-6, (old VHF Low Band), but with the change to HD TV, most places they are transmitting on VHF High band or UHF, so you don't need the longer elements.

You need to verify the VHF Low Band is not being used in your area with TV Fool

 

[techman]

In the greater Philly area the ABC affiliate is on VHF channel 6 as an HD station. With a UHF only antenna you will likely not receive it. So an old school antenna is still needed.

paul

 

[buickanddeere]

In the greater Philly area the ABC affiliate is on VHF channel 6 as an HD station. With a UHF only antenna you will likely not receive it. So an old school antenna is still needed.

paul

Channels 2-6 are received just fine on a deep fringe channel 7-51 antenna . Channels 2-6 being low frequency will transmit farther than UHF with the same wattage .
Reducing the intermode overloading of the receiver front end with FM broadcast radio . Will also make up for not having 1/4 elements for channels 2-6.

 

[Xfaxman]

In the greater Philly area the ABC affiliate is on VHF channel 6 as an HD station. With a UHF only antenna you will likely not receive it. So an old school antenna is still needed.

paul

Even better would be an antenna made for channel 6 only, that could aimed for best reception, with a VHF Low signal combiner to the other antenna.