Hi - Just starting to wrestle with a new/unused philips 2008 model UHF/VHF antenna (I'll get the model later) on top of my 2 story house, on a 5ft mast (so far). The setup seemed to meet what I thought I needed and was free from a guy at work who switched to satellite rather than wrestle with installing this behemoth...
I live behind a bunch of trees on a bluff near the south end of Camano Island. there's maybe a 100yd clearing directly to the south, where I think the antenna's pointed - just guess and by golly at this point since I don't have a compass handy.
Have an older projection LCD TV. Just purchased a Radio Shack digital converter box. I'm trying to tie the coax from the antenna into the distribution box where cable was originally routed (think this is my first mistake).
Running a 50ft Rg6 from a balun adapter at ground level to the cable dist box brought in 4 channels around channel 20. I added a preamp (I'll get make and model later), matching high gain amp, and put the antenna on the roof and now nothing at all. I don't show any signal strength in any direction.
Here's the TVfool data:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...9e741ccafa0086
First - how can I test the preamp and amp to see if they're OK... Next, can I put any splitters at all between the preamp and amp? If so, what kind specifically?
Thanks!