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Could I use 2 INDOOR antennas instead? I'm in a wheelchair and have no help with that stuff

Hi i have an antenna with 2 leads 1 lead per adjustable angle bay....i am running those 2 leads through a splitter in reverse .... This is great thanks !!!

Cheers. This did help. Thank you. Cable is definitely out. Everyone is foregoing it. Usually, the powered indoor antenna you buy at Walmart; which is what we did. It is more common sense. Yes, we're not getting the plethora of channels we did before and didn't watch anyway. The first month of not getting a cable bill makes up for it. We have our home back and there isn't this monster in the living room that we can't stand and have to financially support.

You can eliminate multi path distortion from two antennas if the distortion is a result of both antennas picking up the same signal. A Televes SmartCom will filter the duplicate signals by blocking the channel frequency on one of the antennas. It automatically blocks the lower dB duplicate signal. It won’t however separate two signals from two markets that are the same frequency. Usually that isn’t a problem though as the FCC keeps neighboring cities on different frequencies. It’s about the same price as a quality rotator but without the hassle of rescanning.

Nuthin like a Rohn tower to plop those antennas on 😅 . . . And if you are not too plump . . . AND there is very little wind, easy to get up there again afterward . . . make SURE ! you wear your safety harness 😮

Excellent video, I would recommend it to anyone

Does this rule apply to mobile applications? I am trying to grab vhf hi and p25 signals, I've noticed that if I use an antenna designed for the p25, my vhf-hi suffers. And if I go with the vhf I don't get p25😢

Very informative thanks Do you have to use the same antennas or could I use 2 different ones going in different directions Thanks for the help 👍🏼

Hard to do I tried it before. Didn't really work.

I have the clearstream 4 and l get 98 channels crystal clear, indoors close to the window. I live in the 6th floor building in jersey city New Jersey 😊😊😊

Just stumbled upon this, New Sub: Dryden, MI Gonna work on a Homemade antenna for our Middle of nowhere Upper/Mid-Michigan Cabin for my dad. Nice Work

"Sports nuts are crazy"... I felt that. Lol... this video is far better than Incould have imagined it being when I saw the title.

That...freezing demonstration actually got me for a second... lol. Well played. Great video all around. My friend was like "what are you going to do today?" I was all..."well I've got these matching transformers and Im gonna build a couple antennas and use a splitter as a combiner and see what I can get ...." ... I got a weird look... and then a nod... they went home... and here I am.

I hope you can answer my questions on this. I have a high gain antenna focused on Boston MA from my location. 45* to 50* to the west is Providence, another 3 channels that way that barely come in. Would there be a issue with that as it's off in roughly the same direction? I would also be using a different type of antenna.

This works largely thanks to error-correction buried within ATSC1. Back in the analog days there probably would have been some ghosting and cross-talk. I pick up two opposing markets with a backless channel master 4221. Without error-correction the shield would have been essential. We mainly got ghosts back in 2008.

THIS WOULD ONLY SERVE TO HAVE A **PARASITIC EFFECT** FOR BOTH ANTENNAS, LIKE HAVING A 4 IN DIAMETER PIPE WITH TOO MANY 1 IN DIAMETER OUTLET PIPES COMING OFF THE MAIN PIPE: **TOO LOSSY AND UNRELIABLE!!**

okay, newbie at this here - connected a Winegard flat amplified indoor antenna, 5L5500A to my bedroom Vizio smart tv. I get some stations really well. This antenna is in a 2nd story window facing North. I see a lot of stations are south of me - I was thinking of adding a flat antenna also to my dining room window, facing south. So I would want to combine the south antenna near my two tv's, and branch off to them - then on my north facing tv, I would want to combine that antenna to go to both tv's - so it seems as if I would have to combine the south antenna cable into 2 cables to go to each tv, in 2 separate rooms - then on the north antenna it sounds as if I would have to combine that cable to go to each tv - then I would have to combine the 2 cables at each tv into one to hook up to each tv? What type of splitters would I use, I assume powered ones - and what quality of cable would I use for a fairly long run like this - my place is a 2 room condo basically, with other small rooms as offshoots.

I watched this great video again. Our local VHF TV station finally moved to UHF this past year and I can finally take down those big antennas and replace them with smaller UHF antennas. How would you recommend stacking two antennas for more gain? I get the identical length cables for that as well, but wonder about antenna spacing? I already use a CM7777 amplifier that gets me a 40-50 signal strength (TV setup). My stations are low VHF and VHF. Great video, simple fix!

The best way is to use 300 Ohm twin lead to connect the antennas together, then use a balun on the lowest antenna to bring the signal into the house. By using a splitter in the house you can use the antenna "system" to also receive FM radio and hook a scanner to it as well. Due to the characteristics of twin lead, it has LESS pickup of noise AND length between antennas is NOT critical!

I have a 25’ pole and I’m thinking about installing either 2-3 antennas: I have 56-60 channels with 1 antenna pointing in one direction and about 30 to another. I live about 5 miles from Tijuana Mexico and would like to get more LA Channels and Mexican TV stations. Would adding a 3-Way splitter plus grounding increase my TV’s reception?

06:31 this is the way it was done also in the old Analogue systems, although in very simple ones. In a multi-flat buildings, there was an active mixer to combine antennas, and you could receive stations emitting from different directions.

So your saying connect both antennas to a splitter in reverse so that would go into the two output sides and can you actually run that input side coaxial to another splitter inside the house to split to at least two TV's ?

It also can be useful to use a tuner with a "signal meter" function to fine tune the direction of each antenna. There can be funny interactions with objects that refract the TV signal by several degrees. Fine tuning the direction can get you a signal that is otherwise marginal.

So does it actually make the overall signal stronger having the two antennas?

Can I combine 2 different type antennas or musty antennas match meaning identical?

Thanks for getting to the point

In Europe we have different models of combiners. All combiners have VHF and UHF inputs.. The advantage is that all TV channels are on UHF band, VHF High Band is for digital radio DAB+ and FM analog radio. If you want to combine two TV antennas, you can use a combiner with two UHF inputs, and VHF input has the frequency range 87 - 230 MHz meaning that you get both FM and DAB+ radio. Another advantage is that in Europe most channels are broadcasted from one tower. Let's say you have 20 channels you only need one UHF antenna and with that antenna you get those 20 channel. The interesting part is when you live near the border. You need two UHF antennas, one antenna for the TV channels from your country and the second antenna two receive TV channels from the neighbor country. Also these combiners allow un UHF input power pass if you have an antenna with a built in amplifier, the maximum voltage is 12 volts. Some combiners also have for VHF power pass if you use and FM-DAB+ antenna with buit in amplifier. The bonus part is these UHF combiner have 4G LTE filter so phone signals don't affect reception

warning ⚠️: may cause ghosting 👻or multipath interference ⁉️. try this at your own risk

Flex radio for the win, 73 lol

About to try this...

Texas here….thanks for the info. Caring about ALL people!!

I have an old fifty foot antenna that is planted in the ground. And also attached to my two story house. I don't use it. My question is, is it dangerous? Should I have it taken down? Worried about lightening.

I miss "ghosting". lol - the relative simplicity of analog. ;)

Will this setup work when combining 2 amplified TV with one amplifier powering both (Antennas Direct Clearstream)?

I installed an outdoor antenna about a month ago to "cut the cable." Then, we started having pixelation. I have a line-of-sight view for about a mile toward Shreveport before the distant small hill. The tower distance is 55 miles or less. That put our dropping Dish on hold. Then the other day, every channel went blank. I contacted the KTBS engineer, and he assured me that nothing was wrong at their end. Then, unexpectedly every channel began to come back. It was weird. I was wondering if all of the UHF channels in Shreveport (over 20) were using the same tower support to save money, but I have not been able to find out. Everything seems to be much better now except for occasional pixelation on KTBS. Could I stack two antennas on the same pole about 6 feet apart and possibly improve the signal by combining them with a splitter? I do not want to drop Dish if this might not solve the problem. The antenna I purchased cost less than $30.00, and purchasing another would not be an insurmountable cost.

Back in the day it was called diplexer. They were very common for use in satellite installations in the 90s. Directv and Dish didn't provide the local channels back then so you needed to have a TV antenna. The "diplexer" was a combiner too it just worked over a broader range of frequencies. The KU band Directv and Dish use is 12-40 Ghz. Whereas regular OTA broadcast NTSC/QAM is 52-698MHz (ch. 2-51).

What are the best combiner you can buy ??? Thanks

Thanks for the info, Doug. Do you know if I can use two different preamplifiers for each of the antennas?

What’s wrong with you you will never get HD from over there never

My god.. take 10min to tell how to hook it up within a minute.. hehe THE MAX

In the RC world they use a diversity controller... would that be applicable for OTA HDTV signals? thanks for the video!

Who knew you could combine antennas? Antenni? 🤷‍♂️

Thankyou. In the UK we still use both TV Ariel (antenna) and cable. We pay the BBC a licence fee and pay for cable. I think you have given me the answer I’m looking for. I live in Hartlepool, England. My signal comes from the Bilsdale Transmitter Mast in North Yorkshire which burnt down last year cutting off millions of viewers. After arguments with the landowner they put up a temporarily mast half the height. They also put a second temporary mast nearer but in a different direction. I have two tv Attentas one I can’t get to on top of my chimney towards Bilsdale and one in the attic for different tv’s in the house. I have ordered a signal finder from eBay and will experiment with joining the cables. Cheers

Thanks so much for sharing with the public. I had the same problem in Puerto Rico. Now problem solved. 💪

A real ham would build the yagis and make the xyl turn them. Hihi Fb om

😂😂😂sports 🥜 are crazy made me chuckle

Where do I put the preamp?

I have 2 antennas and 25ft cable. Can I put a booster before the splitter then the splitter to 2 antennas? will that work?

Point 1 antenna more east.... Catch PBS off the back. Didn't see a pre amp. Add one. Problem solved. Or omni directional antenna. Nice video, though.

So I don't want to run coaxial through ou my house Can I put a antenna out side then connect that same antenna to another antenna indoors? in my head the antenna indoor act as a booster or does the two antenna on either end just cross cancel each other out?