holdbyedges
12-Apr-2012, 8:24 PM
Hello all,
I am a newb and hope I'm providing the right info and asking the right questions for the help I need.
Recently, we (wife & I) decided to cut the cable and go to OTA and internet for TV viewing. We live in a 1.5 story home built on peers/beams. (Rear half of the house has a second story.) We have 4 flat screens throughout our home. The orig cable comes into the attic and the signal sees 3 splits. The first split has one side going to upstairs TV nearest the attic and the other side goes to a second splitter. The second split has one side going to downstairs front Tv in kitchen (longest reach, ~30+') and to a 3rd split between main room TV & master bedroom Tv, both on lower level. We're ~40 miles N of broadcast antennas for the stations we're most interested in. TV signal analysis:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d36169d40d2a153
I purchased a Terk FDTV1A amplified antenna and put in the attic above our 2d story and plugged in distribution where cable was. I bought it at a brick and morter store b/c it was omni-directional, amplified, and specs said it had a 45 mile radius. The TV signal analysis shows all the stations of interest are to our south. Amazingly, the Terk, with supplied 10dB amplifier, is doing a pretty good job running all 4 TVs "most" of the time. Some days sees channel drop outs and pixelation mainly with the VHF band stations (8, 11, 13), esp with the front kitchen TV. Channel 8 (PBS) is the toughest and the channel I'm most interested, followed by 13. I was thinking that maybe all I need to seal the deal is a little more oomph than the supplied 10dB amp can provide. I was considering a Channel Master CM 3410 or CM 3412. The former would give me one output 15dB boost, adding 5dB to what I've got; the latter two outputs providing 11.5dB each. Am i on the right track?
(In hindsight, perhaps should have gone with an RCA ANT751, but be that as it may.)
Thanks!
Jim
I am a newb and hope I'm providing the right info and asking the right questions for the help I need.
Recently, we (wife & I) decided to cut the cable and go to OTA and internet for TV viewing. We live in a 1.5 story home built on peers/beams. (Rear half of the house has a second story.) We have 4 flat screens throughout our home. The orig cable comes into the attic and the signal sees 3 splits. The first split has one side going to upstairs TV nearest the attic and the other side goes to a second splitter. The second split has one side going to downstairs front Tv in kitchen (longest reach, ~30+') and to a 3rd split between main room TV & master bedroom Tv, both on lower level. We're ~40 miles N of broadcast antennas for the stations we're most interested in. TV signal analysis:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d36169d40d2a153
I purchased a Terk FDTV1A amplified antenna and put in the attic above our 2d story and plugged in distribution where cable was. I bought it at a brick and morter store b/c it was omni-directional, amplified, and specs said it had a 45 mile radius. The TV signal analysis shows all the stations of interest are to our south. Amazingly, the Terk, with supplied 10dB amplifier, is doing a pretty good job running all 4 TVs "most" of the time. Some days sees channel drop outs and pixelation mainly with the VHF band stations (8, 11, 13), esp with the front kitchen TV. Channel 8 (PBS) is the toughest and the channel I'm most interested, followed by 13. I was thinking that maybe all I need to seal the deal is a little more oomph than the supplied 10dB amp can provide. I was considering a Channel Master CM 3410 or CM 3412. The former would give me one output 15dB boost, adding 5dB to what I've got; the latter two outputs providing 11.5dB each. Am i on the right track?
(In hindsight, perhaps should have gone with an RCA ANT751, but be that as it may.)
Thanks!
Jim