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edisonprime said:
I don't know if you read my post earlier, but have you thought about hiring a professional if you can afford one? Or perhaps get different antennas for your VHF-lo (not sure if any of those are in your area), VHF-hi, and UHF stations and then use a combiner? Or maybe just an antenna that does both VHF-lo and VHF-hi and another for UHF if using three is too much? Using a specialized antenna for each would make each type work better. I plan to do so someday when and if I live in a house, though the ones that focus on only VHF (especially VHF-lo) will be harder to find nowadays, but I still think will be worth a look for me. Even though VHF-lo is not in my area, I hope to live in different parts of the country someday to experience different places, so I plan to still invest in an antenna for that.
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He has a VHF-HI station in Lima and one in Ft Wayne. Everything else (Dayton, Columbus) is UHF
 
Are you using a pre-amp or an amp after the signals are combined? If after, a pre-amp will amplify the signals before the loss of the cable and combination of the 3 antennas. Best try for that channel is your top one (if the channel is in the UHF frequency) with a pre-amp (use a high quality low noise. be cautious as some will provide no better reception due to noise) and keep it separate from the other antennas. Also, are there any trees in the area? Need to get above the trees for best reception. Remember trees grow..... in our area fast with this and last summer, (a lot of rain).
 
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Larry1 said:
Are you using a pre-amp or an amp after the signals are combined?
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This can be a difficult task since you have to power all of the preamps. I suppose you could try one of the all legs powered splitters, but you would have to come up with a single inserter that could power the lot or bring all three cables inside and combine them inside the home after stuffing in the inserters.

After all of that is done, there's still the exceedingly weak two-edge signal that may only make it under the best of atmospheric conditions.
 

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