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yep. Nobody interested in ancient art of antennas. Well, ok-I finally did contact Service Master and Zip Installation; they want several hundred $$ to do the installation and they don't necessarily want to use the equipment we've already purchased or follow the forum directions. I guess since they seem to be the only game in town, they feel they are in the driver's seat. I thought maybe I was missing an individual out there who works independently, but perhaps it's gone the way of the dinosaur.

Yeah, antennas aren't enough to make a business on anymore. FWIW, when I've gone out on rare occasions to do a "favor" for a non-family friend, I do it at my rate that I charge customers for my "day job". It isn't cheap.

Try the local dish system installers...many of them were antenna guys back in the day, and still do them.

Actually, I made mistake in saying it was HD antennas. They are VHF/UHF. We already have one of the antennas up, and can easily put the other up; it's preamplifiers and their power source, and splitters, and jointennas that make my eyes cross. I'll keep trying-I'll try the tip about the cable guys. A Radio Shack kid took all the info and is deciding whether he is capable of doing it-he didn't really understand the preamplifier installation either. That was a few days ago and we haven't heard back. Thanks much to all of you. If anyone thinks of anything/anywhere else to try, I'd really appreciate it. In the meantime, I'd better work extra hours so my elderly mom can get all her channels. BTW, I hear 'they' want to take away free TV anyway, so all this may be for naught. I guess 'they' hope us unconforming troublemakers will cave in and finally sign up for pay TV. Hmmph.

--oh, and we're in a rural, wooded area, so that seems to have something to do with why we lost our signal when the HDTV switch happened. It was literally overnight. So we took down the old antenna, put up one of those Clearstream antennas, which helped but fades in and out if the wind blows. We lost two local stations, which is why I was instructed by TV Fool site to get the two Winegards, the jointenn, the preamp, the splitter, and a power source for the preamp, and tune the UHF with a compass to receive one of the missing local stations. And, of course, have the converter boxes....

So, that's the story.



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Originally Posted by wobe /forum/post/20863442


--oh, and we're in a rural, wooded area, so that seems to have something to do with why we lost our signal when the HDTV switch happened. It was literally overnight. So we took down the old antenna, put up one of those Clearstream antennas, which helped but fades in and out if the wind blows. We lost two local stations, which is why I was instructed by TV Fool site to get the two Winegards, the jointenn, the preamp, the splitter, and a power source for the preamp, and tune the UHF with a compass to receive one of the missing local stations. And, of course, have the converter boxes....

So, that's the story.

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Sounds like multi-path interference if you have trees in the area that are high and sway with the wind, you'll get lost signal or sporadic signal. If there is anyway to get your antenna higher, you'll probably do better.



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Originally Posted by Otto Pylot /forum/post/20863814


Sounds like multi-path interference if you have trees in the area that are high and sway with the wind, you'll get lost signal or sporadic signal. If there is anyway to get your antenna higher, you'll probably do better.

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In addition to moving the antenna above the trees, moving the antenna below the trees may also make a difference. If tree height is something that can't be overcome, sometimes lower is better. This can be tried without a ladder. Good Luck.