My brother and I have a duplex, he's in one side and I'm in the other. We were thinking about putting a db8e in the attic since it's small enough and rates good enough that is should pick up the few channels available to me
HERE. I'll face one side to ~313 and the other to ~254 and that should pretty much cover all of the channels available to me even being in the attic right? The problem is each side of the duplex will have 4 outlets. We installed telco boxes and already have some leviton 4 way passive splitters. The original plan was each side would get an antenna but we're thinking we can make the db8e work for both of us if we got a 2 way amplified splitter. I was looking online and I found a Channel Master CM-3412 which splits 2 ways and gives an 11db boost to each port, that should work shouldn't it? Or can I just use a 2 way passive splitter? If I need the amplified one I'll just order it at the same time so I only have to go up in the attic once.
I seen there are 8 way splitters that add 4db to each line but the way the telco boxes are installed there's only 1 antenna line ran to each one/side. The other option I have is a 2 way splitter at the antenna then installing a 4 way amplified splitter in each telco box. That'd be more expensive plus it'd involve throwing my passive 4 way splitters out but if that'd be a better idea I'd rather do it right the first time.
ABC and CBS are the only VHF channels I care about and I pick those both up with just my coax plugged in which isn't even connected to an antenna so I'm not worried about that. If I had to guess, the cable distance from the antenna to the telco boxes is around 20' and the rooms range from 20-30' from the telco box. I appreciate your help