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Old 18-Mar-2011, 7:39 PM   #5
Tower Guy
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Originally Posted by Yooper View Post
I can get all the channels some of the time, but much of the transmission is interrupted and pixelated.
With your azimuth of 10° you should get WOTV, WXMI, WLLA, WWMT, and WOOD. The others may be impaired due to incorrect aim.

The other problem is the extremely intense signal level of -11.8 dbm from WGVK on channel 5. The best solution is a separate Y5-2-6 antenna for WGKV plus a 20 db attenuator connected to the low band antenna and an HLSJ to combine the two antennas.

If you'd like to try for WGVK with your existing antenna, get two HLSJs and a 20 db attenuator. Feed the antenna into the combined port of one HLSJ, connect the L ports with a short jumper cable, connect the H ports with the 20 db attenuator between them, feed the TV sets with the combined port of the second HLSJ. Use only quad shielded RG-6 for every single cable.

Finally, WZUU FM on 92.5 MHz has a signal strength of -19.7 dbm. The HLSJ trick to deal with WGVK on channel 5 will solve that potential overload problem as well.

Last edited by Tower Guy; 18-Mar-2011 at 7:41 PM.
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