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Rabbit73 thank you for the help.
In regards to moving the antenna, I don't have the pieces to do a portable set-up like you demonstrated on the AVS Forum (shown in photo above). However I do have spare cable, and can try a manual re-position on the house.
I have a couple of questions for when searching for a signal in either a different position and/or without a pre-amp.
1) I do not have a portable Sadelco or similar device (it appears Sadelco is no longer producing new products). Is it possible to manually tune a TV tuner to a channel (23.1 in my case) and use the channel strength indicator to get a rough guess on signal strength? Or does one need to go through the tv's "scan" feature for each re-position?
2) If manually re-positioning the antenna on the roof, do I need to prop/secure the antenna or can a person hold it?
3) Approximately how long should it be held at a particular height/rotation to allow for the capture (if using the channel signal strength listed in #1)? Growing up I have a rough idea on how long the old rabbit ears took, but am not sure how things may have changed.
Between work and an earlier sunset, I don't think I will be able to get on the roof to try things out until this weekend. Weather is looking good for then, so I will head up and test things out and try to grab some photos from the mast location.
Please let me know if you think of anything else I should try.
Thanks!
FC
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