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Originally Posted by thrasherx
So I ended up purchasing the 10 foot Antennacraft Yagi, and a UVSJ. I hooked up the DB4e, and was fairly impressed at the signal quality. The 20 dB amp also delivered >= 75% signal strength to my HDHomeRun box.
I thought I'd improve it even more by removing ~50 ft. of extra RG-6. After shortening an re-terminating one end of the cable, the signal seemed to drop a bit. It dropped again after shortening the other end. I need to go back and investigate my termination job, but there isn't much to go wrong.
Using RG-6 strippers, I inserted the cable, rotated the stripper around a bunch of times, exposing the center conductor, for 1 cm, and the shielding for another 1 cm. I peeled back the shielding and twisted a connector all the way on (until I could see the nylon insulation was flush with the opening of the connector). I then used the crimper to compress the connector barrel onto itself. Mechanically, it feels solid.
I'll have to sleep on it. Thanks for your advice!
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Is the HDHR the only thing you have hooked to the antennas? Are your antennas still in the attic? Are you still using the Winegard preamp?
If the HDHR is the only device you are using with the antennas and the antennas are in the attic, put the HDHR by the antennas, and loose the amp. So, UHF antenna, VHF antenna => UVSJ => HDHR. That will get you the lowest noise signal into the HDHR possible. (Unless the noise of the preamp is less than the noise of the first transistor in the HDHR.)