Thread: Help please

I have two question #1 how long is to long for a run from antenna to tv cable run. And #2 is 20 deg separation between channels to much for a Large Directional Antenna. Thank you for any help.

1: How far you can go depends on how much signal you're getting and whether or not you use a pre-amp. If you're trying to hide the antenna way out in the South Fourty, you probably won't make it. If the run is less than 200', there shouldn't be a problem that a good pre-amp can't overcome.

2. It all depends on just how directional the antenna is. Some have pretty generous lobes.


Overly general questions are likely to be rewarded with overly general answers.

What antenna would work for the 335 to 316 range of stations

link to my stations AntennaWeb

Originally Posted by harshness

1: If the run is less than 200', there shouldn't be a problem that a good pre-amp can't overcome.

I was just wondering about this myself. Is there a thumb rule, like, 200' of RG6 typically costs 3dB?

. It all depends on just how directional the antenna is. Some have pretty generous lobes.

hehehe....he said "generous lobes."

Originally Posted by Blasto65

What antenna would work for the 335 to 316 range of stations

Try this; go to
TV Fool - Home

, jump through the hoops, do "Save Image As" and then attach the PNG image file to this thread. Or leave us your zip code so that we can look at it.

Originally Posted by CowboyDren

I was just wondering about this myself. Is there a thumb rule, like, 200' of RG6 typically costs 3dB?

Yes, there is; it could be as much as 11 dB at that length. Loss is directly proportional to both cable length and frequency. See the attached chart, which is from Ken Nist's fine antenna discussion in
hdtvprimer.com

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hehehe....he said "generous lobes."

Nice pun, Beavis.

Sorry forgot about giving zip or ing. Here is my location from Tv fools

Hate to run you through this hassle, but... Could you please run a post-transition TVFool report and attach it to a follow-up post? Your attachment above contains current signal conditions, which could be rendered obsolete for some of the stations by the DTV transition (whenever that happens!). I'm especially interested in 7.1 CBS, 10.1 NBC and 13.1 ABC; each affiliate is currently transmitting DTV signals in the UHF band but, like many others across the country, one or more may be "moving back" to their original VHF channel assignments once analog transmitters go dark for good. There's no sense in giving advice for a situation that may no longer apply after (allegedly) June 12. TIA.

sorry here is post-transition

Originally Posted by Blasto65

sorry here is post-transition

Are you interested in WBRA-PBS?