You're going to need a lot more horsepower on UHF than a C5 can offer. However, you will need it (or something comparable or stronger) for the Fox station out of Detroit. The rest of the Detroit stations are all UHF, so a fringe/deep fringe UHF antenna is needed.
A preamp is needed. Our Juice can handle far stronger signals that CIII will provide. However, since any directional UHF antenna aimed at Detroit will be edge-on to CIII's signal, it will be anywhere from 10 to 30 dB below the forecasted level.
Look carefully for a tree-free path towards Detroit. Your UHF reception, in particular, will depend on that.
I'd also plan on an FM filter on the front end of the preamp. That will keep the amplified FM out of your TV tuners. You have a 50 kW FM station about 3 miles away.
Last edited by ADTech; 14-Apr-2015 at 2:22 PM.
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