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tigerbangs · 02-01-2007, 02:41 PM

I suggest pulling out the XG-43 that you have used before, mount it as high as you can get it, and use the tilt feature to aim the antenna about 15-20 degrees above the horizon. You'll need the preamp to make this work, though. I was playing with a similar situation the other day in Ledyard CT, which is about 50 miles from the DTV transmitters here in CT. no luck when the antenna was in the horizontal plane, but once we tilted it up, several UHF digital stations popped up that were beyond our reach before. It does sound like multipath is also part of your problem, but if you aim the antenna above the ridge of hills where you are, you may get lucky...

02-01-2007, 02:41 PM	#147
tigerbangs Antenna Maven Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Springfield, MA Age: 54 Posts: 2,116	I suggest pulling out the XG-43 that you have used before, mount it as high as you can get it, and use the tilt feature to aim the antenna about 15-20 degrees above the horizon. You'll need the preamp to make this work, though. I was playing with a similar situation the other day in Ledyard CT, which is about 50 miles from the DTV transmitters here in CT. no luck when the antenna was in the horizontal plane, but once we tilted it up, several UHF digital stations popped up that were beyond our reach before. It does sound like multipath is also part of your problem, but if you aim the antenna above the ridge of hills where you are, you may get lucky... __________________ Real men don't use indoor antennas; neither do real women!