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The better place to install the UHF splitter is after the power supply, not between the power supply and the preamp. This negates the need to splice the line that carries the aproximately 20 volts that powers the preamp. With your situation you should have plenty of signal to power the 2nd tuner.

I think that unless you have a very long coax downlead (200 feet or more) and have a lots of tvs running or lots of loss before the receiver (multiple vcr's hooked up) the gain of the 7777 is plenty. The real improvement can be had with careful selection of the matching transformers and the 2...

You should be able to hook up two Silver Sensors by using a 75 ohm two set splitter that is rated to 800 Mhz or more. This is the common type of splitter used by cable companies to feed two tvs from 1 coax. In theory you'll have a better chance of success if the two antennas are pointed 90...

I think increased height will give you the most improvement. I don't think you have much chance of success down low no matter what you do. I wouldn't bother getting a second antenna and combining it with your original antenna. Combiners (splitters) at UHF eat up some of the theoretical 3 db gain...

I looked at your RS antenna and it's a medium gain UHF yagi. You first need to get good analog reception from the same tower(s) where your digital transmitters are. If the analog reception from the analogs are snowy you won't be happy with the digital reception from those same towers. I've...

That will work fine with an OTA antenna. Radio Shack sells various offset brackets that will allow you to mount to the facia board even when your shingles stick over the facia by inches. I'd use both brackets on the facia spaced as far apart as possible for increased strength. I usually use an...

The 4228 is a great UHF antenna. The only problem I see at your location for HD CBS, NBC, PBS,WB and ABC is that the WB transmitter is located at 186 degrees, 32 and 50 degrees away from the other transmitters. This is a little too wide for the 4228 and probably your best bet is to point...

It looks to me that your digital transmitters are all on UHF and except for Fox and PAX a medium directional outdoor antenna will work fine. I think for UHF reception a 4 bay bowtie mounted on a short pole outside should do the trick although the 30 degree difference in direction to the...

The rotor and rotor cable are usually all you need unless you're in a real windy area and have a very large combination UHF-VHF antenna.

Cool moist air is the best for propagation of tv signals. When I lived in Oregon 120 and 160 miles to my tv stations I used to always pray for rain (not that common in the high desert region of Central Oregon) as the crappy VHF reception from Eugene and Portland would be stellar in rainy...

That sounds likea VHF or combo antenna, I don't think UHFs get that long.

I lived in Bend, Oregon in the 70's and 80's, it was a VHF DXers delight as the nearest regular VHF stations were about 120 miles away across the Cascade mountains and very weak. I think I was up to about 12 states received and 3 Canadian provinces. Hot summer days seemed to be the best for...

Using the nulls when combining two antenna pointed in different directions is a great idea. Also when just using one antenna it's advantagous to put reflections (ghosts) and noise sources in the antenna null directions. Channel Master has 2 vhf antenna lines- one more a yagi type antenna...

If your receiver only has one input you're either going to have to buy a coax switch or better yet a UHF-VHF diplexer. This is like a satellitle-OTA or cable diplexer except it combines or separates ch 2-13 and chnls 14-69. With the coax switch one position would have all the U-V channels from...

The problem I was thinking about was that you'll have to use a preamp for the 115 mile stations but the more Fort Wayne signal you pick up the more likely the preamp or the tv will overload making the distant reception impossible. Are people in Fort Wayne with big antennas able to watch...

If you get a map and draw a line between your city and the Indianapolis transmitter site you will see some cities on that line closer to Indy. If you use their zip code at antenna web the azimuth to Indy will be the same as yours. I hope Indianapolis has UHF HD and you're able to get your...

Yes, but the question is why. Cutting off the UHF elements and phasing lines won't completly remove all UHF signal from the downlead if that's what you really want.

I think in most situations an omni is not a good choice price/performance wise. Most of us have most of our stations coming in from from the same tower or same mountain so an omni is wasted. It picks up signal (and noise and ghosts) from all directions whereas a small yagi/log will have gain...

Thanks for the correction Carl. One thing I did notice though is that join-tennas are no longer available for chnls 2-5. This is from the Andrew/Channel Master site.

You might get away with it if the two antennas are pointed in directions more than 90 degrees apart and if all the channels are distant. What happens is that the poor reception of off beam channels from antenna A will be combined with the good reception of those channels from the correctly...

I made a good living installing UHF translator antennas (Ch 70-83) in Oregon where typically there was a thick 60+ foot pine tree forest on the customers lot. Translator reception was especially difficult as they were only 100 watt transmitters at about 32 miles distance. What I always did was...

http://www.hdtvprimer.com/Antennas/comparing.html ...is a good site that compares some 20 antennas with gain versus frequency and polar diagrams for each antenna.

I say that definately you don't want the 8 bay bowtie. I checked http://www.hdtvprimer.com/Antennas/comparing.html which has specs for both the 4 and 8 bay Channel Masters. The 8 bay has around 2 db more gain than the 4 bay (midchannels) but has about 2 db less gain around 14 degrees off it's...

Sapient, go to http://antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx ...click on choose an antenna and enter your zipcide and you'll see that the Minneapolis St Paul stations are all about 9 miles away and in the same direction. If you look at the very far right column you'll see what the digital channels are...

Carl B; thanks for the link to the antenna gain comparison web site. This is a great page with a huge amount of info. Everybody interested in UHF antenna gain across frequency should spend some time there. Thanks again.