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I recieved my antennas in the mail yesterday and will be installing them this weekend. A couple of questions....
I have plenty of coax, with that having been said, they each came with 50' quad sheilded rg6. Can I run seperate leads into the basement and combine them there? Or should I combine them at the top of the tower. I would like to combine them in the basement to have access to the combiner and it seems easier. Could I put the grounding block after they are combined or would I need two grounding blocks before they go into the house? Will two leads of coax going down the tower interfere with each other? Should they have standoffs or can I zip tie them to the tower leg?
Also, my mast is about 4' tall. What should the seperation distance be between the HBU33 and CM4221? The previous install had a UHF 2 bay at the top of the mast and an antenna simliar to the HBU33 at the bottom of the mast. I could install the HBU33 somewhere on the mast, come down so many feet and side mount the CM4221 on the tower. Which would be fine with me because that may be safer. By the way, my tower is 30' to bottom of mast, not 40'.
If I install both antenna on the mast my plan was to try and take down the mast that is installed now and install both new antennas on the mast on the ground, then some how climb up the tower with the mast and new antennas and install it that way. I want to spend as little time possible at the top of the tower, as Ive said before its rusty in spots and im not 100% comfortable at the top of it for long periods, moving around installing antennas, etc.
Lastly, the distribution amp I have hopefully will be good enough in my case and I will not need any other amps? Is it correct to say that seperate pre-amps for each antenna are more powerful than the distribution amp I have? That was another reason I wanted the combiner in the house and not at the tower, in the future, could I add preamps and install them in the basement, before the antennas combine, and also have the distribution amp later in the line?
Thanks Again...
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