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GroundUrMast –
Thanks for responding to my questions. I am a general contractor and I understand wood, concrete and steel very good but your response lost me a bit.
I’ll hold on the Gray-Hoverman idea for now and the custom head end would be a last resort.
The suggestion to use RG11 is a good one and that should save about 4.5dB over the 300’ run to the house.
The Comcast feed came into our house via underground conduit from the street and entered into a small mechanical space at the very end of the home. From there I ran RG6 to a somewhat central distribution area in the basement (I actually ran a spare RG6 too). I ran RG6 to each TV throughout the house back to the distribution area. There I have a pair of Suttle SAM RFBA 38 that amplify and split the signal to the different TV’s. This worked OK with the Comcast signal. My intent was to have the new antenna feed connect to the existing RG6 where the Comcast feed was.
See if I correctly understood your suggestion of what you would do with regard to the antenna…
Mount a pair of DB8e’s, pair of Y10713’s on the antenna mast with one of each pointed towards the Boston/Manchester area and the other pair aimed towards Portland, Maine. At the antennas combine the respective antenna outputs into a pair of RCA TVPRAMP1R’s. From there use two RG11 cables to go down the mast and underground into the house. I have space in the bottom of the mast to house an amplifier there if the CM-3410 was needed.
Here is where I loose understanding. Once I have the twin RG11’s inside the house how do I distribute to the individual TV’s? I don’t understand how HTPC technology would apply to this scenario.
Teleview –
I would be glad to make and post reports for a location adjacent to the house but mounting the antenna there is not an option. Let me know if you had other thoughts and I'll run the new reports and post same.
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