Re: Antenna for low signal area

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:37:05 -0700, snoogans wrote:

>
> I have a cottage in the 1000 islands of NY. The closest OTA station is a
> good 25 miles away. I have an old antenna mounted on a pole on top of a
> hill behind the place and can pick up most stations, but with a weak
> signal. (The antenna is almost 200 feet away). I was thinking of
> getting a amp for it, but not sure it is worth the investment. I would
> like to replace everything with an HD antenna as I'm going to need it
> anyway, but I'm not sure what th ebest deal is. I think I need an
> amplified one, but I also need something a little more heavy duty as
> there is a lot of lightining in the area and strong storms.
>
> Any ideas?

25 miles is close. I'm 45 miles and get all stations good. Your problem
appears to be your antenna system. Being 200' from the antenna, you should
be using a preamp, and possibly another distibution amp at the house.
There's no such thing as an HD antenna, but you do need a decent quality
antenna and if you don't have a good UHF antenna that could be your
problem as most HD channels broadcast over the UHF channels. There's only
one out of about 25 here that uses vhf (channel 9). A Channel master 4228
serves me well here for UHF. If you also need vhf, you might consider one
of the CM combo antennas, 3017 or larger. With analog, you can get porr
reception with a poor antenna system. With digital, it's either good
enough or you get nothing.

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