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Old 5-Dec-2018, 5:08 PM   #2
rabbit73
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Originally Posted by scottpants
Thanks, I'm deleting my PMs to stay under 5 as we go along. Here is what I intended to post, with the TvFool signal report and everything:

I just moved and am interested in setting up OTA at the new place. I believe all of the OTA signals in the Phoenix area originate from South Mountain, about 30 miles South/Southeast of me. The only channels I really care about are 3.1 (KTVK), 5.1 (CBS), 8.1 (PBS), 10.1 (FOX), 12.1 (NBC), and 15.1 (ABC). And all of these are green on my TV fool analysis:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...903881daf3f0c9

The house is already wired with coaxial cable that runs back to a splitter & booster in the laundry room next to the garage. The former owner had Cox cable, but my thought was to put an antenna in the attic above the garage and connect it to the splitter/booster in the laundry room, which connects to the existing coax connections going throughout the house.

The main TV is centrally-located in the living room, and I'd doubt an indoor antenna would work well there, as there aren't any nearby windows and there are several rooms between it and the south wall. That's what lead me to consider the attic-mounted antenna and utilizing the existing coax cable runs. The TV in the second story loft has a South-facing wall, so I COULD probably just use a typical indoor antenna for that one as a plan B...

Would this plan work? And if so, what kind of antenna should I be looking at?

Also, what kind of splitter/booster will I need for this? How many times can you split an OTA signal before signal degradation is a problem? Is there a recommendation on what to use? The laundry room box already has a simple booster, but I don't know if that'll do the job.

Here's a street view picture of the house showing the garage attic and location of the loft:



Thanks!
The link to your image doesn't show the image, but I think I can extract the image.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ym725pvn0r...tview.PNG?dl=0

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