Rural Help Please

[YeCats]

Hello! So neat to find this great info and forum!

State WHERE you are..... -29332 (Cross Hill, SC)

State HOW MANY television sets.... - 4

I'd like to get DiGITAL. (One TV is HDdigital ready,, the other three,, I had to buy the converter boxes.)

I have a Philips HUGH TV outdoor antenna (SDV9011K) already on-site. 25ft. up on top of a mast. When I did my first channel search, on the new HDTV, I hit 35 channels! Now, not all come in great at the same time, ( I have gone outside a turned the mast pole myself to get a better picture), but I was pretty pleased. So this week, I fig'ed I was ready to run more cable under the house and hook up the other 3 TVs with their converter boxes. I used two spitters, (a 1to3 and 1to2), to make-up four cables for four TVs. Now my signals are weak! Did I run to much cable? Is there a product to help boost the signal?

I'd love to fire up these four TVs with signal. If my antenna is not the right one, which one do I need? I have already made a nice investment,, but I willing to listen to the pros and go with your suggestions.

Thank-You for reading!
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[tigerbangs]

Well, it isn't the atenna I would have used, but you need 2 additional items: a preamplifier and a rotator. That antenna is pretty directional, and you need to turn it to see all of your stations, a Channel Master 9521a will allow you to turn the antennaso you can maximize the signal on each station. Since many of your stations are clustered together, you won't have to turn your antenna for EVERY station, but when you want to see something in a different direction, i's a LOT easier than going outside and manually turning the antenna.

By adding the extra splitters and cable, you introduced a lot of extra loss into your receiving system, a good preamplifier will definitely help you overcome those losses. Since you have a couple of strong local stations, we have to pick a preamp that will handle the strong signals with out overloading, but has enough gain to overcome the losses associated with the extra cable and splitters. I would suggest a Winegard HDP-269 preamp, which won't overload and will cover your extra losses.

http://www.channelmaster.com
http://www.winegard.com
http://www.pctinternational.com/channel ... lation.pdf

[YeCats]

Thanks for the suggestions, Tigerbangs!

One more question, if I may. Which antenna would you have used at this location? I do have the 25ft. mast, and could go higher if the antenna was not as heavy.

Once again, THANKS for helping me!
YeCats

[tigerbangs]

Don't worry about what I would have used, make the additions that I suggested, and I think that you'll be fine....