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Originally Posted by mtownsend

Does this splitter have any amplification? When a signal feed is split, less power will go down each branch of the split. It sounds like this is a 4-way or 8-way splitter.

It's a 4-way splitter (ChannelPlus, by the way, not CM -- not that it matters). I just looked, and I can't find any amplification, though I'd swear I remember the Comcast guy talking about adding one when it was originally installed. I must be mistaken, though.

Are you suggesting to connect the antenna to the CAT 5 cable? Just so you know, this will not work very well. The impedance mismatch between the different systems will cause lots of signal loss. You need to keep the OTA signal in its native 75 ohm coax, preferably RG6.

Yeah, that was pretty silly of me! Sorry. The distribution box has both CAT5 and RG6 cables in them, and I just looked at the wrong one and wrote it down. Brain freeze. But I don't know which is in the attic. I would hope and assume it's RG6. If it's not, then I guess I need to find a way to drop an RG6 cable down from the antenna into the box. Gulp. Hopefully it won't come to that.

I think an attic installation would work best. If you use an antenna like the Antennacraft HBU-22, it will adequately handle channels 7-69. Since it is significantly better than your average set-top antenna (but probably still in the same price range), it should be able to provide enough extra signal to overcome the loss of your long coax run.

That one looks fine. I will give it a try.

Thank you so much; I really appreciate your help. I will come back in a few weeks and post my results (unless I have questions even before I get that far).

Thanks again!