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jostarr · 01-22-2007, 08:07 AM

Sorry, I don't mean to hijack this thread! I live in Forest, VA....My local staions are in Roanoke, VA. and in Thaxton, VA. Mountaints and a low elevation at my house have made UHF reception difficullt. So, I went and bought a new UHF Antenna and mast mounted amplifier and got it installed. All before I found the highdefforum and tigerbangs reccomendations for deep fringe reception.

In any case, I then purchased a Philips 26" HDTV to test the reception. I did get all the local HD channels, but suffered some outages during a severe rain storm 2 weeks ago. I felt I needed a bigger screen, so I took the Philips back, and bought a Vizio VX37L Saturday. Got it set up and was very impressed with pic quality and color right out of the box. We had a sleet/snow storm yesterday, and I was amazed that I had no loss of signal or breakup with the Vizio. The Philips would have been useless in that storm. But that is an interesting aside.

My question for tigerbangs, or anyone is as follows: The run from my mast amp to the Vizio was a little more than 50 feet and I used RG-6. Now, I want to be able to distribute the UHF HD signals to
at least 4 locations in my house. I expect the cable runs to be more
that 50 feet in some cases. What equipmet do you reccomend for this application? I can put an indoor distribution amp in my attic, about 10 feet from where the UHF antenna is now located. If this is
recommended, what hi gain, low loss amp is recommended?

As a separate issue, I also have a Phase 3 DTV antenna now being used in the same 4 locations as above. Should I get a Terk 5x8 multiswitch and run the UHF antenna into that? Will the Terk provide
sufficient low noise gain?

Or should I run a separate UHF line to each location...ie., 2 feeds, UHF and DTV to each room? Please give me your reccomendations.

01-22-2007, 08:07 AM	#137
jostarr High Definition is the definition of life. Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 70	Amplifiers Sorry, I don't mean to hijack this thread! I live in Forest, VA....My local staions are in Roanoke, VA. and in Thaxton, VA. Mountaints and a low elevation at my house have made UHF reception difficullt. So, I went and bought a new UHF Antenna and mast mounted amplifier and got it installed. All before I found the highdefforum and tigerbangs reccomendations for deep fringe reception. In any case, I then purchased a Philips 26" HDTV to test the reception. I did get all the local HD channels, but suffered some outages during a severe rain storm 2 weeks ago. I felt I needed a bigger screen, so I took the Philips back, and bought a Vizio VX37L Saturday. Got it set up and was very impressed with pic quality and color right out of the box. We had a sleet/snow storm yesterday, and I was amazed that I had no loss of signal or breakup with the Vizio. The Philips would have been useless in that storm. But that is an interesting aside. My question for tigerbangs, or anyone is as follows: The run from my mast amp to the Vizio was a little more than 50 feet and I used RG-6. Now, I want to be able to distribute the UHF HD signals to at least 4 locations in my house. I expect the cable runs to be more that 50 feet in some cases. What equipmet do you reccomend for this application? I can put an indoor distribution amp in my attic, about 10 feet from where the UHF antenna is now located. If this is recommended, what hi gain, low loss amp is recommended? As a separate issue, I also have a Phase 3 DTV antenna now being used in the same 4 locations as above. Should I get a Terk 5x8 multiswitch and run the UHF antenna into that? Will the Terk provide sufficient low noise gain? Or should I run a separate UHF line to each location...ie., 2 feeds, UHF and DTV to each room? Please give me your reccomendations.