advice on setup needs please

[dgdm]

Hi, gotta get rid of dish, country home with mostly open fields around me, some large trees near the big two story stone house, but lots of open views as well. The land is level around the house and the house is quite tall, steep roof pitch so fair bit of room in the attic, can also put a bit of an antenna on one of the big stone chimneys outside which top out at almost 30 feet high. When I renovated the house I put two coax cables into the attic, one of which is used for dish, I also left an empty conduit to allow me to snake additional wires to the attic if necessary. I know very little about this so please don't take anything for granted.

My report is here http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3df1f0ebeea34323

looking for advice on everything, what antenna, wires, other hardware etc. to capture the most channels, obviously.\

thanks for any assistance.

David

[StephanieS]

Greetings David,

You have some choices and options about signals you want to prioritize. If I were installing at your location an Antennas Direct DB8e orientated to magnetic 72 would be my first choice. This ought to cover all signals from Toronto except for CTV. For that, I'd add a second smaller antenna in a RCA ANT751 orientated to magnetic 287.

You would require a signal combiner. The Antennas Direct EU385CF allows for two antennas to be combined into a single antenna. The trick here is one antenna has to be UHF (DB8e) and the other VHF (ANT751).

This would give you all of Toronto except for CTV. CTV from Kitchner would come from the ANT751. US broadcasts are extremely weak and would require additional measures to attempt to receive.

I would purchase a chimney mount and a 10' pole. The DB8e would mount at the top of the pole, with the ANT751 4 below it. A couple feet below that mount your EU385CF combiner and connect both antennas to it. From EU385CF run single lead of coax into home.

How many TVs do you want to feed?

Cheers.

[dgdm]

thanks for the info, will definitely look into what you have recomended. only planning on serving one TV.