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RG-6 is solid core. The extra cost of quad-shield will not provide any tangible benefit. Quad-shield is used to protect the LNB signal out of a satellite dish from interference from terrestrial microwave sources, the link between the dish and satellite receiver are a closed system and uses frequencies assigned to various terrestrial services. OTA TV uses lower frequencies that are assigned exclusively the the OTA broadcaster, so there should be no conflicts from microwave ovens, Wifi or point-to-point microwave systems. Sources of interference strong enough to penetrate standard RG-6 shield will almost always be received by the OTA antenna, better coax shield can't stop that.
The DA is a good choice given the relatively equal signal levels together with a very good noise margin for the majority of the signals. You could use a high input preamp at the antenna... such as a Winegard HDP269 or Antennacraft 10G201. I'm not contradicting JC's suggestion though.
One or the other but not both. Rule of thumb: One amplifier can be too much, two amplifiers ARE too much.
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If the well is dry and you don't see rain on the horizon, you'll need to dig the hole deeper. (If the antenna can't get the job done, an amp won't fix it.)
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Last edited by GroundUrMast; 14-Jul-2011 at 7:37 PM.
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