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Old 29-Jun-2012, 4:38 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by GroundUrMast View Post
... A preamp will help you if you have a weak but otherwise usable signal at the antenna. Preamplifiers and distribution amplifiers are used to 'push' the signal through lossy devises such as splitters and coax. Amplifiers do not and can not 'pull' more signal from an antenna.
A while ago, there was a coax cable connected to a power AC (http://www.dennysantennaservice.com/...ed_352x298.jpg as an example online) in one of the small rooms (closest one to the main coax cable to the satellite dish and before its splitter in the attic) for the previous owners' Dish TV service. Is this a preamp? This was removed, so maybe this is why OTA does poorly in the rooms since this premap was removed? I wonder if we should put it back (not sure if it is compatible with OTA?), and it will work better?
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