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Originally Posted by GroundUrMast
If you mount the amplifier in a closet, the important cable length is 'from the antenna to the amplifier input'. Hopefully, you could find a location that needed a bit less than 30' of coax for that link. The cable from the amplifier output is not as significant, until cable and splitter loss are close to cancelling the gain of the amplifier.
As the others have suggested, the ideal installation would have the antenna free of all obstructions and the distribution cabling home run from a single distribution point... You may need to do some or all of that, but a compromised design that works... works.
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I can re-locate the antenna in the attic. Where it is currently positioned the signal enters through the end-wall of the attic (1/2" osb, moisture barrier, plus vinyl siding). That should result in very little signal loss. To relocate closer to the closet I can put the amp in would require the signal enters through the asphalt roof. I'm not an rf expert but I do know that organic compounds make great rf blockers; I'm sure moving the antenna to where the signal has to penetrate through the asphalt shingles will diminish my signal quality more than it will gain by being closer to the amp.