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Originally Posted by GroundUrMast
Judging from the path profiles in your original TVF report (click on the station call sign), going up will buy you far more than any amplifier or antenna upgrade. (That's not to say you won't benefit from an antenna upgrade.)
Given the proximity to KTBW and KCPQ, amplification will likely be overloaded if you get the additional signal I expect.
Experiment with the Interactive TV Map using different placements of the antenna and mounting height. I think you will see signal levels change significantly with relatively small changes. If I'm wrong, only a few minutes of time spent.
As T.G. mentioned earlier, depending on the HTPC software package you use, you can dedicate individual ports on the HD HomeRun to separate antennas. Thread 820 That has allowed me to avoid the need for Jointennas. |
you're from seattle area? so you have to deal with that pesky 13 also eh.
I just checked the map adjusting the height, and channel 13 stayed the same, pretty strong. Right now that's my main concern. It's really close by and the signal strength is very strong but quality is really bad. I'm not too concerned about the eastern channels I think with a good directional UHF I can lock into those in the seattle area pretty well, as I'm getting them pretty good right now. So for 13 I'm thinking tower guy must be right about multipath, and maybe a good directional VHF would help with that. Here's a picture of my topopgraphy, maybe it will help. As you can see the one to the west(13) is being blocked by some huge hills. But actually my house is closer to that first hill on the left.
http://owisoft.net/Documents/map.JPG