It's been a little over a year since I opened this thread and I've been doing a lot of research on the best value in equipment without going too overboard and I'm getting ready to "pull the trigger" and order what I need.
Before I do, I want to make sure that there aren't any other "tweaks" that I could make from the experts here.
Here's an updated radar plot:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...990081e212f92d
Based on my research, I'm going to go with a 42' guy-wired mast about 35' closer to my house with a rotar and mast that has an Antennas Direct 91XG on top and a Winegard YA-1713 5' below that or just above the rotar. That should put my UHF antenna at 47'.
I'm also going to use a Kitz Tech KT-200-COAX pre-amplifier to minimize noise.
I plan on using RG11 to connect everything with only one splitter to combine the UHF & VHF antenna's to the pre-amp. The total length from antenna to my receiver should be about 100'.
Based on that, I should have a 9db signal reaching my pre-amp, correct? The KT-200-COAX has a 24db gain with <1db in noise. I figure then that I should have a 32db signal reaching my receiver so I'm hoping that I might be able to pull in all of my target stations (down to -15db) and perhaps some of the other ones down to -20 as a bonus from time to time.
Am I being realistic and are there any other ways that I can "tighten" up my system to maximum gain?
Dave