Hi Guys,
I just bought my first house. It has an old tv tower antenna in the back yard. stands about 50' high (no amp). Here is my tv fool signal analysis:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...46aee99e1db3be
My antenna coax runs about 40 feet into my house, where it is split, runs to two tvs. I am getting most of the channels that I should get, but they are often annoyingly choppy (sometimes they are watchable, othertimes not). I want to boost my signal so that these channels are more reliable. I read about preamps, they seem like a good option? but I am worried about climbing up my old antenna tower to install one in the middle of winter. Any advice for me?
Also, my antenna has an old channel master rotor that works by a dial, yes it surprisingly still works, but for some reason it won't rotate 360 degree. I can go from southwest, clock wise to to EES, but I cant point antenna south or SSE, only EES. I figure i would benefit from pointing my antenna more to SSE to get those buffalo area channels better? (many of them are coming in now , even though I am pointed at SW, but they are often too choppy to enjoy).
Basically I need advise on:
Should I get a pre-amp?
could i install a pre-amp halfway down the mast instead of up at top of antenna (climbing to top seems dangerous)?
Would I benefit more from having my antenna point towards SSE (per the analysis) than from a pre-amp?
Are there local installers that could do this work?
Also, I was told that I would angel electronics that I would benefit from install the winegard lna-200 amp inside my house, before the coax splitter. This would be the easiest option as I could easily do this myself. Do you thin this would this help?
any advice would be appreciated. I have limited budget so I can't just wing this by trial and error, have to get it right first time.
I am new to this, done a lot of reading and research and could really use some solid advice. thanks for your time guys.
-Lando