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Old 20-Jun-2015, 8:36 AM   #21
lspecski
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Thanks for your help so far. I hope this makes sense to the people on the forum because it makes no sense to me. First, here is my report again:

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...82309f356ad8c6

So I took the advice of Rabbit73 and built a dipole antenna which immediately brought me my most problematic channels, 6 and 12. Running only that antenna channel 6 and 12 were picked up on both of my TVs, one is a 15 foot run and is an old model Olevia now defunct. The second TV, about a 75-100 ft cable run is a Samsung Plasma. I am getting contradictory things happening on both TVs. On the Olevia, I get everything except Virtual channel 10 and 29 (Real Channels 34 and 42) including the VHF-Low channels. The TV provides me the signal strength and they are coming in at between 40 and 50%. On the Samsung. I am receiving everything. The only issue is that Channel 6 which was fine without combining the UHF/VHF signals is now very distorted, but 10 and 29 are perfect but I cant pick them up on my Olevia TV. I can only assume that this has to do with the diplexer I am using. It is a satellite diplexer. The part that has me confused is that if it was the diplexer wouldn't it cause the same issues with both TV's.

Last thing, I added an amplifier to the Dipole antenna, but that only made matters worse. My priority right now is to get Channel 6 on the Samsung. The second TV is less used and we stream more from there.

Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by lspecski; 20-Jun-2015 at 8:39 AM. Reason: Added a little clarity
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