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Originally Posted by dmfdmf
I am not familiar with your current antenna but can you disable or bypass the amp and see what you lose? You can't just unplug it or it becomes a giant insertion loss but if you can bypass it might be helpful to know what you are getting without the amp in the way. How many TVs are you driving with this antenna and how my feet of coax run?
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I am not sure how to bypass the amp. I am driving one TV currently on the first floor. I have a long coax run from the antenna to the TV since the antenna is on the roof of the second floor and the TV is on the first. Furthermore, the power inserter for the antenna is at the end of a 50' coax run (from antenna to power supply in attic). Unfortunately this is as close as I can get the power inserter. From the inital 50' coax run, I estimate another 50' run of coax in wall to get to the TV. I have installed a Radioshack 12db gain in-line amplifier right after the antenna power inserter to help overcome the loss in the last 50' of coax.
My inital install pointed the antenna at magnetic north, but after that I used the TV's (Sharp Aquos) signal meter to tune the channels in. For the most part I get good reception on 46.1, but it becomes unwatchable later in the night (8-9pm). There are also some PBS channels that I get poor reception (42.1/2/3 for example)
Antenna-->power inserter->amplifier-->TV