Home base TV Antenna
Antenna is 25' above the ground. Running into difficulty getting a consistent signal to any of the 3 TVs. Long range direction VHF/UHF antenna with a preamp. Original higher cost preamp just didn...
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Thank your for all the responses.
Broadcast stations are a mix of UHV and VHF, furthest stations I'm trying to receive is about 50 miles. Not that far for the monster antenna. Also had an omni directional uhf antenna that didn't pick up much of anything
Below is the sequence from antenna to living room TV. It was interesting that removing the splitter had zero impact on signal, which shocked me.
Channel Master advantage 100 antenna
75 ohm adapter (changed out once)
short cable (18"?)
preamp (originally channel master switched out for cheap RCA, which actually improved the signal)
100' higher quality RG6 (replaced 100' channel master cable)run in crawl space
amp power supply
Short cable to 3 way splitter (splitter replaced twice, newest one is channel master passive which will pass through preamp power, also had a powered splitter, but it didn't seem to work at all)
12' cable connected to wall outlet
3' cable from wall outlet to TIVO
Kitchen TV, also 12 ft cable from splitter
Bedroom TV 50' cable from splitter to park model drop to wall outlet
3' lead to TV
All TV's react the same way, i.e. They all suffer the same amount of pixelation. I'd love to say the bedroom drop had an issue, especially since my movement in the bedroom affects ALL TV's, but I bypassed the splitter and it didn't improve the signal.
I could connect the bedroom TV to the antenna, bypassing the splitter and the rest of the cables.
I could also undertake making my own cables, which would greatly cut cable lengths.
Friend had an antenna professionally installed, and they put power source at both TV's which didn't make sense to me, but I could put the power source at the living room TIVO.
General consensus is I have a bad cable SOMEWHERE. Given that the 100' cable was changed and no change, thinking it has to be in one of the shorter leads.
Don't really want to go any higher. 25' should be high enough.
Could move the antenna, which would shorten leads considerably, but securing antenna would be more difficult. Right now I'm secured at park model fascia at roof peak and base attached to concrete.
Cell based modem is completely disconnected now, so that wasn't it.
My fear right now, it's between the splitter and living room TV, but when this room was built, the cable was installed and secured in the wall cavity making it a bit more challenging to replace.
One other issue, that I believe is another symptom, in hot sun, signal reception is worse.
Broadcast stations are a mix of UHV and VHF, furthest stations I'm trying to receive is about 50 miles. Not that far for the monster antenna. Also had an omni directional uhf antenna that didn't pick up much of anything
Below is the sequence from antenna to living room TV. It was interesting that removing the splitter had zero impact on signal, which shocked me.
Channel Master advantage 100 antenna
75 ohm adapter (changed out once)
short cable (18"?)
preamp (originally channel master switched out for cheap RCA, which actually improved the signal)
100' higher quality RG6 (replaced 100' channel master cable)run in crawl space
amp power supply
Short cable to 3 way splitter (splitter replaced twice, newest one is channel master passive which will pass through preamp power, also had a powered splitter, but it didn't seem to work at all)
12' cable connected to wall outlet
3' cable from wall outlet to TIVO
Kitchen TV, also 12 ft cable from splitter
Bedroom TV 50' cable from splitter to park model drop to wall outlet
3' lead to TV
All TV's react the same way, i.e. They all suffer the same amount of pixelation. I'd love to say the bedroom drop had an issue, especially since my movement in the bedroom affects ALL TV's, but I bypassed the splitter and it didn't improve the signal.
I could connect the bedroom TV to the antenna, bypassing the splitter and the rest of the cables.
I could also undertake making my own cables, which would greatly cut cable lengths.
Friend had an antenna professionally installed, and they put power source at both TV's which didn't make sense to me, but I could put the power source at the living room TIVO.
General consensus is I have a bad cable SOMEWHERE. Given that the 100' cable was changed and no change, thinking it has to be in one of the shorter leads.
Don't really want to go any higher. 25' should be high enough.
Could move the antenna, which would shorten leads considerably, but securing antenna would be more difficult. Right now I'm secured at park model fascia at roof peak and base attached to concrete.
Cell based modem is completely disconnected now, so that wasn't it.
My fear right now, it's between the splitter and living room TV, but when this room was built, the cable was installed and secured in the wall cavity making it a bit more challenging to replace.
One other issue, that I believe is another symptom, in hot sun, signal reception is worse.
