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Two Antennas
I want to know what equipment I would need to purchase to pick up the channels that are in the gray zone on the report. I can receive some of them when I turn the rotor so I know its possible but I wanted to add a second antenna for the difficult channels. I am willing to buy the best equipment to make this happen.
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What equipment are you using now?
Which channels (by callsign) in the gray are you getting now? Which channels in the gray are most important to you? A personal question, if I may ask: Why are they so important to you? Your previous threads: no uhf signal Mansfield, OH; same tvfool report as this thread http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=15616 Needed Channel Missing Bellville, OH http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=15850 New Antenna Install Vanceburg, KY for father in law http://forum.tvfool.com/showthread.php?t=15861 |
I am currently using a wineguard 7084 antenna but I don't use an amp because its overpowering, I get 48-52 channels.
If I use an amp I can get wtol 11.1 and wtvg 13.1 for sure out of Detroit when I turn the rotor. I have a winegard 3700 amp for this, obviously I don't want to climb on the roof and take the amp on and off everytime. Last summer I found those stations on accident but I never really spent anytime finding additional. With the money I have saved from dropping cable I wanted to invest in a good OTA DVR and looking at adding a second antenna with a better amp to pull in from other cities. The station I am most interested in is wbns-dt 10.1. I want to be able to get local coverage of the buckeyes including the coaches shows etc.. In addition during football season wbns 10.1 shows Bengals games from Cincinnati. My interest is strictly for regional sports coverage. |
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Thanks for the details. Reception of WBNS will be difficult. I doubt that you will have 24/7 reception, but you might be able to receive it at times during Tropo season when it will be stronger than predicted by your tvfool report.
It is difficult to receive signals with a NM lower than -10 dB. If you are able to receive a signal with a NM lower than -10 dB, you have an excellent antenna system, your tvfool report is wrong, or they have been enhanced by Tropospheric Propagation. http://forum.tvfool.com/attachment.p...9&d=1453496093 The terrain profile shown by clicking on WBNS in your report isn't very encouraging: http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...ALLTV%26n%3d35 Using different software for a profile shows interference to the signal from the curvature of the earth: http://forum.tvfool.com/attachment.p...2&d=1462493975 and the Longley-Rice coverage map shows that your location is in a dead zone for the WBNS signal: http://forum.tvfool.com/attachment.p...3&d=1462494102 However, if you are willing to take a gamble on a second antenna system for WBNS, with no guarantee of success, I suggest an Antennas Direct 91XG or DB8e with both panels aimed in the same direction and a preamp like the the Antennas Direct Juice or Channel Master 7778. If you also want VHF-High coverage for your second antenna, I suggest the Winegard HD7698P. If you want to experiment with a low noise figure preamp, I suggest the Kitztech KT-200, but you will need an outdoor housing for it. Low noise figure preamps can give a little more weak signal sensitivity, but they are more subject to static damage. |
WTOL is the Toledo CBS affiliate and WTVG is the Toledo ABC affiliate. So that's what you're getting, not Detroit. Detroit would be WWJ and WXYZ.
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Thank you for the details I have reviewed. What did you mean regarding an outdoor housing for the kt-200?
You are correct regarding those being Toledo affiliates, thank you. |
From the Kitztech website:
Remote Power - Coax Powered Version: Quote:
http://www.highdefforum.com/local-hd...tations-2.html Quote:
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/25-hdt...l#post20479940 thread Kitztech KT200 Coax Preamp Review http://www.avsforum.com/forum/25-hdt...mp-review.html |
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Hi,
I have a KT-200 in my antenna setup. The amplifier does come in a small aluminum enclosure that looks weatherproof but I took their advice and put it in a small plastic enclosure box that I bought at Home Depot. They also sent me an FM trap (looks like a splitter) because they said I had strong FM radio signals in my area. The amp gets it's power through the coax cable. Previously I used the LNA100<?> from winegard. It's also a low noise amp but I found the Kitz is slightly better. Good Luck |
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