You might want to put a 75 ohm terminator on that open port on your distribution amp. An open port can allow "ghosting" and other interference to occur.
How far in the sticks do you live? You'd do better with the antenna mounted outside if you're that far away from the towers. I have an Antennas Direct ClearStream 2V mounted outside about 15 feet off the ground feeding 3 TV's through a 3 way splitter with no amplification and a longest cable run between antenna and TV of about 70 feet. With this setup, I get full signal strength reading on all but 6 channels from the towers 18 miles away. My channel scan yields 60 channels where I live.
I wire this stuff and only saw a signal booster, where we are shown the plug in, but it is never hooked up. This does not work too well this way from my experience. The cable from the antenna should have gone directly into the booster, and then we should have seen a cable out to the distribution hub. It was never hooked up?????
Yes its an extra old booster i just left in place from an old outdoor antenna , the attic antenna with rotor works great and stays out of the weather, here in the New York city area I'm getting over 60 channels .Thanks for your input.
if you have a rotator, why did you point the antenna in two different directions. You have halved the signal when doing that. since the antenna is inside the house, obviously, your not far from the tv towers. Put that mess outside and you will have more channels by eliminating the building interference.
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You might want to put a 75 ohm terminator on that open port on your distribution amp. An open port can allow "ghosting" and other interference to occur.
How far in the sticks do you live? You'd do better with the antenna mounted outside if you're that far away from the towers. I have an Antennas Direct ClearStream 2V mounted outside about 15 feet off the ground feeding 3 TV's through a 3 way splitter with no amplification and a longest cable run between antenna and TV of about 70 feet. With this setup, I get full signal strength reading on all but 6 channels from the towers 18 miles away. My channel scan yields 60 channels where I live.
I was told never loop coax cable. Put it in a figure 8. Any thoughts?
Coiling up excessive cable causes attenuation (signal loss). Best to cut it off.
I wire this stuff and only saw a signal booster, where we are shown the plug in, but it is never hooked up.
This does not work too well this way from my experience.
The cable from the antenna should have gone directly into the booster, and then we should have seen a cable out to the distribution hub. It was never hooked up?????
Yes its an extra old booster i just left in place from an old outdoor antenna , the attic antenna with rotor works great and stays out of the weather, here in the New York city area I'm getting over 60 channels .Thanks for your input.
You should not coil up the cables. It makes a chock. Not good
if you have a rotator, why did you point the antenna in two different directions. You have halved the signal when doing that. since the antenna is inside the house, obviously, your not far from the tv towers. Put that mess outside and you will have more channels by eliminating the building interference.
i want to pickup tv signals from New york city and central new jersey .
@@9bofunggardens We pull in 77 channels from NYC using an outside antenna. Its way more stations than we need.
Where's the ground wire?
Good point will connect ground wire I have a copper pipe in the ground with ground wire running up to the attic
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