Residential tv antenna with powered amp?
Background; new camper, has worthless omni disk antenna picks up nothing. Already have Directv but want locals at camp site. Seasonal site, camper will not be moved. I had asked previously how to g...
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DutchmenSport wrote:
I have a 55 (plus) year old aluminum UHF antenna (they were a square wire design back in the 1960's) that my mother had stored away in her garage attic. (my dad was a TV repair man and he installed antenna's and when UHF came out, he installed them. So this is one that he never sold and was never outside.)
When we canceled DishTV at the house and decided to go over the air instead, I got that old antenna and put it on a pole outside my house. It has no booster or anything. The coax wire it's connected to is the wire that DishTV installed. It runs to a splitter and feeds to 8 different rooms in the house. From antenna through all the wire, there must be strung through the house and under the house, at least a total of 500 feet of coax, and the signal is great on every television! No booster!
Here is what I suggest. Set up your pole outside your camper. Attach the antenna. Run the coax from the antenna to the coax attached to the Omni. Use a joiner (double end threaded connector) to join both wires together, and then use your television inside the camper as normal. You can still flip on the booster or turn the booster off. I suspect, if you turn the booster on, you'll get many more available stations.
At our hosue, and we live in the country, we get about 55 stations from all directions, North, South, East and West. (remember, no booster). In the camper sitting in the drive way with the bat wing antenna, we get the same stations from all directions, but the booster has to be on.
So, if you simply connect to the existing wire that attaches to the Omni, you can experiment what what works best witout disturbing anything original factory installed on your camper.
That's what I'd do.
When you say "joiner" are you talking about a splitter? Two inputs on one end-omni plus residential, and one output to stock camper coax?
If so, how does power go from switch by TV to the omni? Isn't it through the coax? Or is it a seperate wire from switched amp to omni booster?
Thanks.
