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Originally Posted by Blackbeen
I mounted pretty similarly with the HDB91X on top using the Stellar Labs UHF - VHF Antenna Combiner http://www.mcmelectronics.com/produc...-2230-/33-2230 this was a pain as the combiner case would not contain the high quality guarded cables I had been using due to the heads being too large for the case so I had to cut new traditional cables with twist on heads to fit the case.
The end result so far is that 2 is rock solid, not a single dropout since I scanned in the afternoon until I pointed east to get 24 Toledo around midnight, 9 was less good, only could get with a direct point (whereas a general ch 50 point will do) with a lot of breakup, the UHF reception has been pretty disappointing, I'm really hoping its the weather as its been storming in Detroit today but tonight (prime reception time) I scanned under 20 channels (poor in any weather) 20 & 7 haven't been seen at all & 4 ,62, 56 are only seen intermittently with lots of breakup, I thought in the first couple hours that ch 4 "seemed" rock solid & I was expecting it to stay. I was hoping for improvement with the height boost of the HDB91X but perhaps the DB4e was doing more than I thought when I consider it to be UHF overkill, it always was a very impressive antenna, I got the HDB91X for a more directional point but I'm not sure if it tops the fringe reception, I would hate to have to remount again soon as that was more of a pain than expected but if things don't improve something will have to change.
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It might be that the DB4e worked better because it is not as directional since it looks like you are trying to pick up channels from some degrees apart.
That is a nice combiner.
For about $14 more there is a RCA PREAMP1R available and it is a great UHF/VHF combiner. I used it to combine my UHF VHF antennas. it has about 20bd boost and lower noise. There were some issues reported a while back, but I haven't read anything lately and both of mine work well:
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That preamp couldn't hurt looking at the distances you are working with...
Anyhow, I hope one of the experts can offer some help here for you.