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Hello everyone,
I am on my way to cutting the cord. I bought a 91XG antenna, but have yet to get a preamp (hopefully you guys can help me here). I assembled the antenna and hooked it directly up to my TV and tested in right in my living room. My goal is to pick up the channels at the 174 degree angle on the TV Fool chart. At that point, I was only getting two of those channels (KOVR and another one that didn't have a label). I figured when I put it on my roof I would be able to get the rest of the channels. However, once I hooked it up on my roof (approx. 25ft above ground) I was not picking up any channels (well, 1 fuzzy analog but that's it). Now I assume this is because the great amount of dB loss. I am running a 100ft RG6 (I overestimated, probably only need 50-75) from the antenna to the side of the house. There I am unplugging my DirecTV dish and plugging in the antenna to the 3 way splitter, from the splitter to the TVs is probably another 75ft of coax at least (in the wall so I don't know). I am hoping a preamp will solve this problem.
So here are my questions: It seems like the CM7777 is recommended a lot, would this work in my situation? I did a few pointing adjustments to make sure that I wasn't just missing the signal, so I believe this is not part of the issue. However, I am not sure if I should tilt the antenna slightly upward, or have it parallel with the ground. Our neighborhood is all two story homes and I have the antenna on a 2 foot mast, but it is not at the apex of the roof, more on the side, however I believe there is not really anything directly blocking it.
Thanks for all your help, any recommendations or advice is greatly appreciated.
-Cory
Hello everyone,
I am on my way to cutting the cord. I bought a 91XG antenna, but have yet to get a preamp (hopefully you guys can help me here). I assembled the antenna and hooked it directly up to my TV and tested in right in my living room. My goal is to pick up the channels at the 174 degree angle on the TV Fool chart. At that point, I was only getting two of those channels (KOVR and another one that didn't have a label). I figured when I put it on my roof I would be able to get the rest of the channels. However, once I hooked it up on my roof (approx. 25ft above ground) I was not picking up any channels (well, 1 fuzzy analog but that's it). Now I assume this is because the great amount of dB loss. I am running a 100ft RG6 (I overestimated, probably only need 50-75) from the antenna to the side of the house. There I am unplugging my DirecTV dish and plugging in the antenna to the 3 way splitter, from the splitter to the TVs is probably another 75ft of coax at least (in the wall so I don't know). I am hoping a preamp will solve this problem.
So here are my questions: It seems like the CM7777 is recommended a lot, would this work in my situation? I did a few pointing adjustments to make sure that I wasn't just missing the signal, so I believe this is not part of the issue. However, I am not sure if I should tilt the antenna slightly upward, or have it parallel with the ground. Our neighborhood is all two story homes and I have the antenna on a 2 foot mast, but it is not at the apex of the roof, more on the side, however I believe there is not really anything directly blocking it.
Thanks for all your help, any recommendations or advice is greatly appreciated.
-Cory