View Single Post
Old 3-May-2010, 11:19 PM   #2
Tigerbangs
TV Reception Maven
 
Tigerbangs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Springfield, MA
Posts: 339
Send a message via AIM to Tigerbangs Send a message via Yahoo to Tigerbangs
Your UHF stations are scattered in an arc of about 50 degrees: you have 2 VHF stations, WXIA and WGTV on VHF, whose transmitters are separated by only about 15 degrees. I would suggest a simple VHF-high-band plus UHF antenna like a Winegard HD-7694P or an AntennaCraft HBU-33 mounted on the pole and aimed at roughly 100 degrees as measured by your compass. Run the antenna cable into your attic, where you should install a a high-quality 2-way splitter, then make the runs to your TV set from the splitter: you should enjoy excellent reception with that arrangement at fairly low cost.

If you decide to add additional TV outlets in the house, do it while the house is being built, and bring all of the wires to the same point where you plan to mount the splitter and have the electrician place an electrical outlet in the attic You can late add a distribution amp-splitter which will allow you to have TV and/or FM reception is all the rooms of the house, should you choose to do so.

http://www.winegard.com/kbase/upload/HD7694P.pdf
http://www.antennacraft.net/pdfs/HBU33.pdf
http://www.channelmaster.com/product.php?catID=40
Tigerbangs is offline   Reply With Quote