Hi Folks,
Like most posting here, I need a little advice (antenna / amp??). My location in the Stafford Virginia area is a little fringe for the DC market stations to the north east I hope to receive. My report is here:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...1ddae3b5ba25fd
The good news is my house sits on top of a hill and I look down in every direction. The bad news, there are a lot of trees I have no hope to get above where the closest are ~ 80-100 feet from roof ridge I would plan to tripod mount antenna which would be about 40' AGL. I ran tests of altitude increase above this mark with no real changes until wild high numbers were entered. Really can't do a tower, so that is not in the cards.
Stations I hope to receive are the typical big 4 and anything else I may have come along for the ride. All are 40-43 miles and a few degrees off from one another. I need High-V and UHF only
So I have a tricky situation. I would like to hedge my bets and
will plan to:
A) Use RG-11 with compression F connectors. (I already have plenty of very high quality RG-6 Quad Shield, and if not a difference would use that)
B) 50 - 60 feet cable run to a single TV (Tivo HD 2 channel)
C) Use best antenna or antennas possible to increase gain
D) Use a pre-amp to further increase my chances ??
So given my situation just several questions for the experts here.
1) What antennas would you recommend? Why and where to obtain?
2) What pre-amp would you recommend? Why and where to obtain?
3) Do I need any other amps?
I am highly technically savvy and the infrastructure is a cake walk for me, but have no idea what DB signal I need to have at TV to have a hope of picking up anything. Hope to not invest a lot of money only to have little or nothing to show for it, thus will go to the best out of the blocks. The trees near me are a worry and something I can't do anything about, although I would whack some to give me a little space between antenna and first trees.
I see I am primarily 1 and 2 Edge and know what that means, but via Google Earth looked to see and the "Edge(s)" are minimal height from mine, so hopefully won't be a show stopper.
Thanks folks and very much look forward to any and all advice