I was wondering if I could get some advice on what antenna or general setup advice for my area.
I live in a densely wooded area (mostly oak, some hickory and very few evergreens) where the trees extend 40' or more past my roof line so I don't think I will be able to feasibly get an antenna up past the trees to get a decent line of site. I am near the top of the side of a hill facing where I will be pointing the antenna and not counting antenna height the location is about 465 feet above sea level. The previous owner had DirecTV and the dish is installed on a shed (about 15 fee up) behind the house with 2 coax cables buried from the top of the shed to under the deck of the house where one of the cables is split twice with two two-way splitters. The total length of coax is about 100 - 150' depending on where you are in the house.
Here is where I would mount the antenna, and get it as high as possible (there are some limbs above it that make me nervous... and there is already a dent on the dish from what looks like a falling limb
Here is a shot from the perspective of the dish, going straight back from where you are looking is about 230-240 degress magnetic.
I would like to be able to watch TV in at least 3 rooms. I would like to get most of the major network channels (ABC, NBC, PBS, CBS, FOX, CW) if possible. One of the biggest ones I'd like to get may be one of the more difficult ones (if at all possible) and that is CBS (WREG-DT). Another one that may cause some difficulties is NBC (WMC-DT) real channel 5.
Because of that one, I was looking at getting the
Winegard HD8200U Platinum and pointing it toward magnetic 250ish. Based on what I have read, I may need to get a preamplifier since I'm on the fringe and have a fairly long cable run but I have no idea where to even begin there. I've read good and bad about several... I know the
Antennas Direct CPA-19 is recommended several times on this forum and I've read good things about the
Channel Master CM-7777 (
or the "new and improved" CM-7778)... But honestly, this is all based on what I have read and what little I understand of my signal analysis and situation.
Here's my Signal Analysis Report
I think that covers most everything pertaining to this... the only other thing I can think of is, I will have two 5 foot 1900 MHz DIY Yagi antennas (Mobile broadband from Millenicom) mounted on the house. I don't think there will be any issues with this, but just want to throw it out there in case I don't completely understand all this jazz.
Thanks in advance!