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Originally Posted by rabbit73
That antenna is presently on sale, but whether it would help with your Detroit channels is unknown.
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Looking back at my original inclination 4 years ago to leave the pre-amp off I really wish I would have went with that, at the time I didn't have time to test reception with it on & off due to the hellish installation nightmare & limited time to access the roof. I did have 3+ years of 40-65 channels reception before it went bad though.
Right now I have 3 choices as I see it:
1) Put up with the sometimes intermittent local 20 channels I can currently receive until I move, which could be the end of the year depending on the housing market.
2) Rent a ladder & replace or remove the preamp at a cost of a minimum of 75$ which I would have to do again as soon as I move entailing double cost which I think is kind of a waste.
3) Buy another antenna for wall J-mount to get me by until I move. I've also been considering the Televes DAT-790 HD
http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp...source=inhouse
which is now on sale for around 50$ (25$ less than the DigiNova Boss, though lacking the VHF range, but in this area there a very few VHF channels so that loss would be minimal). I wish I could remember the reception limitations of the J-mount location but my memory is foggy at this point.
I'm leaning toward option 3 as I could quite possibly use the Televes with good results wherever I end up moving to, I'll have to sleep on it.
I also forgot to add, there is a cell phone tower very close to the Detroit point so I'm curious if this LTE Filter might improve reception I wasn't at all aware of cell tower interference prior to reading about this filter.