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Originally Posted by devidog
I assume that I need to combine the two antennas on the mast and go down with one wire? I've read on other posts about doing this with the RCA TVPRAMP-1R. Jeez that's a big antenna, 120" ... I'm guessing this would be mounted on the mast pointed at KRCG 5' below the rotor and DB8B.
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Yeah, that's how I'd do it. The wavelength at VHF is long, thus the long antenna for sensitivity... You could try the Y5713, but it's 6.9 dB gain vs. 9.4 for the Y10713. The RCA preamp is certainly priced right, and recommended a lot here. The alternative to a preamp is a UVSJ -
http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?p=uvsj - I would just try each antenna cable directly into the TV first, to see what signal levels I had with no other devices in the path.