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Old 13-Mar-2010, 12:50 AM   #1
rwilson1206
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Your help/input is Greatly Appreciated!

Here is my signal info:

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...b7c88e87010cdf

I live in north canton ohio, trying to pickup up signals in cleveland, ohio 60miles away (40miles away broadcast). I have a 40' tall guyed tower at the back of my house braced off with mounting brackets at the house. At the very top of the tower is an old UHF single bay antenna with twin lead and standoffs every 1' o.c. or so. It works ok, I climbed to the very top of the tower, and rotated it around (UHF antenna), tried to get the best signal. I wasnt completly happy with the results, so its my backup antenna for the other two tvs. I bought a Phillips MANT940 antenna (18db, 20 mile range) and mounted it at around 30' on the side of the tower with 5/8" coax. I am pretty happy with it, as it gets channels broadcast from cleveland (330degrees) and youngstown (45degrees?). It only services one TV (I found adding a splitter looses channels). Sometimes I get digital breakup and some good channels only come in at night. It came with an 18db in-line amplifier, no other amplifiers work with it. I would like to get all channels in all the time with no breakup. I was considering getting the Channel Master 4228HD 8-Bay (60 mile range)(or a better antenna than what I have now if its even possible) and replacing the Phillips MANT940. I would be side mounting it, because its just to dangerous to go all the way to the top of the tower (its old and rusty), although its been climbed all the way to the underside of the pole mounted old UHF antenna at the very top. Is this wise, or is my Phillips about as good as it gets? My Phillips was $30 and this antenna is $60 with 50' of coax.http://www.summitsource.com/channel-...le-p-7809.html. I dont want to break the bank, but like I said im pretty happy now, allthough I get some digital breakup and not all the channels from cleveland come it 100% of the time. Thanks for your help...

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