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Combine VHF Dipoles antenna with a UHF silver sensor antenna?

post #1 of 10
2/15/09 at 6:47pm
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How would I go about doing that? I want to combine a VHF antenna connected with a 75 Ohm with a Silver Sensor also using a 75 Ohm. What adapter would I need?
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post #2 of 10
2/15/09 at 6:55pm
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How would I go about doing that? I want to combine a VHF antenna connected with a 75 Ohm with a Silver Sensor also using a 75 Ohm. What adapter would I need?

http://yhst-18278607509093.stores.ya...pico-0389.html
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post #3 of 10
2/15/09 at 7:43pm
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Is this a concern.
Low insertion loss 0.5 dB max.
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post #4 of 10
2/15/09 at 7:47pm
No,

0.5 db insertion loss is very low. A standard 2 way splitter has about 3.0 db insertion loss.
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post #5 of 10
2/15/09 at 8:36pm
I tried it with one of those combiner things before for 2 antennas I had, not much signal loss
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post #6 of 10
2/15/09 at 9:25pm
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I first tried the Terk HDTVi antenna which gives me the best reception. I also tried the RadioShack UFO antenna which was not that great. Even though it was amplified it would not give me any better reception than the Terk and I would sometimes have bad multipath with certain channels. I also tried the RadioShack bowtie antenna which was the worst. I keep coming back to the Terk even though everyone here says it is no good it is the best antenna I have tried. However people say the Silver Sensor is real good too but it does not have VHF which I will need in June for channels 7, 11 and 13. I looked for VHF only antennas and I could not find any. I have a $1 VHF antenna which is hooked up to a 300 ohm to 75 ohm connector. Should I even bother with that antenna with the Silver Sensor or should I stick with the Terk HDTVi which gives me very little problems?
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post #7 of 10
2/16/09 at 9:08am
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I first tried the Terk HDTVi antenna which gives me the best reception. I also tried the RadioShack UFO antenna which was not that great. Even though it was amplified it would not give me any better reception than the Terk and I would sometimes have bad multipath with certain channels. I also tried the RadioShack bowtie antenna which was the worst. I keep coming back to the Terk even though everyone here says it is no good it is the best antenna I have tried. However people say the Silver Sensor is real good too but it does not have VHF which I will need in June for channels 7, 11 and 13. I looked for VHF only antennas and I could not find any. I have a $1 VHF antenna which is hooked up to a 300 ohm to 75 ohm connector. Should I even bother with that antenna with the Silver Sensor or should I stick with the Terk HDTVi which gives me very little problems?

The Terk HDTVi is a Silver Sensor "clone' and the UHF performance would be expected to be pretty much the same as the regular Silver Sensor.
Plus it has "rabbit ears" for VHF. So I am not sure why you would want to try and build a Silver Sensor/rabbit ears combination when that is what you already have.
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post #8 of 10
2/17/09 at 11:36am
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I tried a bunch of antennas except the Silver Sensor but I always found the Terk HDTVi reliable even though people here say it is junk it has been the best antenna. I will probably stick with the Terk since the Silver Sensor would probably give me the same reception. The only thing I don't like about the HDTVi is that the base is too short but the way I have on top of two boxes it should not fall off. The Silver Sensor has a bigger bottom.
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post #9 of 10
2/17/09 at 7:53pm
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I tried a bunch of antennas except the Silver Sensor but I always found the Terk HDTVi reliable even though people here say it is junk it has been the best antenna. I will probably stick with the Terk since the Silver Sensor would probably give me the same reception. The only thing I don't like about the HDTVi is that the base is too short but the way I have on top of two boxes it should not fall off. The Silver Sensor has a bigger bottom.

Most Terk antennas are junk but the HDTVi is OK. As I said, it's the same UHF design as the Silver Sensor but with rabbit ears to give VHF reception.
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post #10 of 10
2/17/09 at 11:03pm
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Then I will stick with the HDTVi I have now since it works good.
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