Greetings! First off, here's my
signal analysis and the
notes I took this morning while testing a few different setups.
The general idea is, when I put my
ClearStream 2 in a second floor window for testing, I got up to 25 channels, some from 110 miles away as the crow flies. I moved it up to my roof and still got all the channels I want (15 of them) when the antenna was plugged directly into the TV, but when I ran the signal through the house wiring, it went down to five channels.
My question is: should my next step be new quad-shield RG6 or an amp of some sort? I'm comfortable running RG6 on my own, but there are no outlets in the attic and I'd have to hire an electrician to add one.
Other info: The house is 100 years old. I've owned it for a few months. The cabling looks relatively old, too, but my tester is only binary so I don't know the exact lossiness specs. The run from the roof to the living room is probably about 60 to 80 feet long, through the basement, and there's not really a shorter way I could route it. There are (currently) five outlets in the run, but only one TV (a Vizio E420VT, which will be swapped with a late-2011 TiVo Premiere once things are up and running). I use Comcast as an ISP, but I have physically separated their signal from the TV. Channels I actually want:
- WYZZ-DT
- WEEK-DT
- WMBD-DT
- WHOI-DT
Thanks for your help!