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Originally Posted by VCool
Thank you for your response as well as the channel clarification. I have the feeling you have answered that question a few thousand times. 
Anyway, the Winegard 1080 is a omnidirectional where the RCA and Antennacraft seem to not be. And, unless I am reading my diagram wrong(definitely possible), wouldn't a omni directional be a better way to go?
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As ADTech has already mentioned, the 1080 is more directional than you might expect. However, most of the easy to receive signals are from one general direction, east of your location. I'd direct whichever antenna you choose toward the east, fully expecting the strong signals from KTPX and KGEB to be received via the rear lobe which is common to most antenna gain patterns.
The weaker signals arriving from odd directions would call for a larger antenna, possibly equipped with a rotator... Perhaps, you would want to consider building two independent antenna systems. One simple system for local reception and the second, a high gain DX system.
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Originally Posted by VCool
And, is there a particular splitter/booster that is highly recommended?
I want to run to two TV's for sure and would like to have the capability to add 1 or 2 more on down the road.
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If you want useful gain, look to the antenna first, it's gain does not add noise and distortion to the signal.
Even if you split 4 ways, you would only be adding 8 dB of loss... The local signal strength plus a few dB of passive antenna gain leaves you with plenty of signal power after this much splitting.
However, if you simply have to get rid of some cash that you have no use for, I accept sympathy in denominations of 50 and larger.
