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[dave522]

I live in Florida. I am in a poor reception area and could only get 3 or 4 channels before. There are lots of trees and a hill on one side of my house and a large lake on the other side. (most of the tv signals come from the lake side) I have an old antenna and use a signal booster. I have a sony tv that is several years old. The zip code where I'm at is 32134. Now I can't get any siginal good on any channel. The signal fades in and out all the time except if the weather is really clear. what antenna should I be using? Or is one really any better than another? Dave522

[tigerbangs]

I ran a scan of your area, and you have a TON of stations available to you: they come from all directions, and many of them are fairly weak, but choosing the right antenna system will allow you to get almost all of them. You should be able to see Jacksonville, Orlando, AND Gainesville if you choose the right system.

Picking the right antenna system is critical to your success: there are lots of choices for antennas out there, and many of them are totally worthless! In your situation, where some of your stations come from as far as 70 miles away, we need a deep-fringe antenna system with a high-input preamplifier and rotator. You are going to need some altitude: at least 30' of antenna height from the ground, so you will need a roof or tower mounting to make this all happen. I have my deep-fringe prescription that will gork VERY well for you if you install it as I recommend.

Use a Winegard YA-1713 VHF yagi and an AntennasDirecxt XG-91 UHF antenna mounted on the same mast, YA-1713 on the bottom, XG-91 at least 4' above it. Run new coaxial cable from each of these antennas to a Pico-Macom UVSJ antenna joiner, then run the output of the UVSJ to a Winegard HDP-269 preamplifier. Run all new RG-6u coaxoal cable into your house. Mount the two antennas on a 5' pole, and mount the pole on a Channel master 9521a rotator, which you will mount on the top of the antenna mounting pole or tower. Run the 3 conductor rotator cable from the rotator down the pole and into the house, where the rotator controller will ount near your TV set. Make sure that, when installing the rotator and the antennas, that initally, the antennas point DUE SOUTH! By aiming that way, the compass points on the rotator will line up with the actual direction of the TV stations. Bring the coaxial cable to the back of the TV set, where you will mount the preamplifier power injector, then make a short run of coaxial cable from the power injector to the antenna connector on the Tv set or the digital converter box. You will need to use the rotatoer to turn the antenna system towards the various cities to get the stations that you want: each time you reorient the antenna for the first time, rescan the digital tuner to find the channels in that city.

I have this whole installation featured at:

http://www.indoorhdantenna.com/products ... stems.html

Look for the 'System 2" package, it includes everything that you need except the length of coax cable that you need.

see the attachment for a picture of the antenna system installed.