William,
In that configuration, one ANT751 appears to being used for a single channel, while the other works the rest of the band.
You can combine antennas, but it gets tricky. Normally when you see two antennas there are few common scenarios:
1: One for VHF, the other for UHF, antennas combined with a combiner/preamp.
2: One for UHF/VHF band coverage except one single channel, the second antenna for a single channel. This is accomplished by a Channel Master Joinantenna, which is a bandpass filter. It allows all channels through except one - that one channel is what the other antenna is aimed to.
3: One for UHF/VHF coverage, the other for UHF/VHF coverage. Both antennas are separate and feed down to an A/B switch and you toggle between systems.
4: One antenna aimed at specific channel, second antenna is aimed to nullify interfering signal. This is a sophisticated method to combat co-channel interference when you desire a signal that has an interfering source. This isn't really applicable in your case.
There are some more high tech methods of combining, but these are several of the most common.
The point here is that you can't just combine VHF/UHF antennas with another VHF/UHF antenna with just a run of the mill 2 way splitter. You are combining two independent sets of signals which run the great risk of offsetting themselves and creating interference to one another. The result on your TV screen would be no reception or erratic reception.
Your TV with these clashing signals won't be able to lock. Think of it as being blinded by two bright lights and trying to see in front of you.
Seems to me the single antenna option would be the easiest.
Cheers.
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Originally Posted by William P
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