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Old 15-Apr-2013, 6:37 PM   #2
rabbit73
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Everytime I disconnect and connect something I lose the signal and I have to wiggle things around a bit to get the signal back.
Winegard has a video about troubleshooting the phasing lines for that series of antennas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlQke5QYbng
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I put on a Winegard HDP-269 preamp but I lost all signal.
Where did you put the preamp, at the antenna or inside?
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If I move the antenna even 2 inches, it makes a difference in getting a channel or not.
That antenna has the highest gain in that series, so it has the narrowest horizontal beamwidth.
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When it is split, I lose the signal.
When you split, you lose 3.5 dB.
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When I put that on I also lost the signal even when it went directly to the TV without splitting it. So it I'm assuming it's not the preamps but something that is happening when I connect it.
Was the preamp getting power from the power supply/power inserter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNPb1XNBQSI
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