"Are you having any trouble on any of your VHF stations (WFAA or KFWD)? If not, then your rabbit ears are probably doing their job."
I have been having trouble with WFAA, KFWD and KTXA KDFI but no KERA. Let me explain. with this ant i was not able to pick up the first 2 and KDFI. i don't know know what i might have done then i would pick up 1 and 3 and not 2 and 4. i don't know how and if adding a dipole helped/or had anything to do with that. so i changed the ant to this one
here which has a balun connecting into the coax cable leading to tv set. now i have all the channels except KERA. this little antenna picks up 52 channels total and the other one 42.
"When you connected the rabbit ears, how did you join the signals with the ones coming from the 4-bay antenna?"
I used a simple splitter/combiner as you can see
here.
it has 4 screws 2 for uhf and 2 for VHF input respectively. then i plugged it into a USVJ diplexor with 2 outputs to connect 2 tv sets. now even if i connect either ant directly i still don't pick up KERA on the bedroom tv, my current issue.
i am not using any amplifiers. eventually once i get the KERA signal i would like to split to two different rooms. the cables leading to the 2 tv sets were left over after i cancelled dish tv. afaik there's no open unused ports on the 2 cables leading to each tv.
the measurements are just 1.5" bet the bowties and the reflector, obviously falls short of 4-5". the length of my whiskers is 9" longside on the upperside and 8" for the short ones on the lower side. should i cut those to be 8" even?
a pic of the bigger ant with a dipole at the top is
here. does it matter how long should i extend the dipole, if so how long should they be extended?
i have a bunch of these usvj's 2 marked 5-1000mhz (one is connected on the antenna) another one is marked 5-600mhz. they are
here do these numbers make a difference? would one have an advantage over another?
i have more images of the antenna here
http://picasaweb.google.com/jayinc1/ANTENNA#