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Thanks for the reply!
There is also a small station in Mtn. Home which seemed interesting that I've watched when visiting people in Salem, AR which is not too far to the east of Mtn. Home. Would he be able to receive that one?
Three-hundred feet...LOL!! He can just deal with Springfield.
I was just playing around with the interactive maps and the "what-if" antenna thing for my uncle's place, and it seems like he would get a few more channels if we place his antenna a foot above the ground rather than going above the roof line, which would be roughly 15 feet or so. Why is that?
I had an amp on mine, but after reading your post, I disconnected it. I have two TVs. The second TV has a very hard time picking up anything, so that's mainly why I had an amp. It's fed from the same antenna. I've got the spliter near the living room TV. The cable running to the second TV is RG-59. I ran that many years ago when C-band satellite was still all analog. Should that be upgraded to RG-6? I've also got an older antenna on the same mast as the new one. Is it running some sort of interference? The older one looks like a HBU-33 but maybe a little smaller if any. I know it's over 20 yrs old. It couldn't have been all that expensive because dad wouldn't have given that much money for one. LOL! I can't remember where he got it. I guess I got tricked into buying a new one. The salesperson was slick and me not knowing much at that time really helped her sale! The older antenna had the flat ribbon type cable. Could that have been replaced with RG-6 instead? If so, should I do that and take down the new one? If so, could I "split the difference" and point the antenna somewhere between Shinall Mountain and the other channels in the other direction? If I go any higher, could I have an A-B switch, get another antenna, point it in some other direction and get anything? There's a station in Searcy, AR I'd like to try for.
Without an amp:
Channel 20 is mostly just one bar on the signal meter. Channel 2 even being in another direction has most of the time 3 bars. Channels 4, 7, 16 and 36 are at full strength a great majority the time. Channel 42 is full strenght a good part of the time. Channel 25 and 38 is hit and miss. Like you said, and a tech guy at a cable company told me, channel 11 is VHF. It comes in a good part of the time with no glitches. Guess it's because I'm so close to it.
Other times I get so mad at it. LOL
Again, thanks for the replies!
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