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Figured Out?
Ok, I got it figured out. I pulled the antenna back down today to change the transformer and run a short cable to a small HD TV I forgot I had that I could haul up to the roof with me. One thing I read in the directions that I wanted to check was the small cross over wires where supposed to be separated by 1/2" or more and not touching. They are also not supposed to tough the main boom. I made sure they were not touching the main boom when I installed it. In effort to make sure they did not I pulled a few up them up away from the boom. In the process i made the crossover wire themselves touch each other. I guess I missed that part of the instructions when I 1st installed it.
So when I brought the mast and antenna down to the roof level that is the 1st thing I checked. And sure enough 3 sets of them were touching each other. Put it back up and did a channel scan with the small dtv I had on the rough with me directly with a 25' cable. I had CBS 3.1-3.1 and NBC 8.1 8.2 8.2, 13 WZZM and fox 17 plus all the channels I had before. Original transformer is fine.
So then I disconnected and reconnected the longer cable that was going to my closet tv in the family room. Still had all the channels but 17 began to drop in and out. Then I tried a RCA digital preamplifier that I got at menards. 17 came in great with that. Of course I had to rescan and lost all the major local channels such as 13, 3 and and picked up 6 and a bunch of other weird ones. I figured it was boosting the UHF side really well and and completely losing my VHF. So I uninstalled.
So my new question is this. Seeing how on the roof with short 25' cable I was getting all the channels I wanted clear including 17 with no amp. Now with my longer 50" cable to tv 1. with one splitter and a a wall plate and TV 2 is way longer run than I needs to be ( I can clean that up later) I still get everything I want but 17. Does this mean a Distribution Amplifier strengthen the signal up enough to get 17?
Thanks
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