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  1. jrfuda

    Having more than one antenna?

    I'd get the CM 4228 if I were you. - It's one of the highest gain antennas you can buy. - It's not as directional as a yagi-style antenna, so it'll pickup your 6 degree spread better than a yagi - Its design makes it very attic freindly... Just ry aiming a yagi in a stud-dense attic and...
  2. jrfuda

    Having more than one antenna?

    custom, you have what you need for an attempt! Make sure you have a splitter/combiner.. some splitters only work in one direction and/or are very lossy. You need something that will let you split OR combine your signal. However, I say, give what you have a try. You may be pleased with the...
  3. jrfuda

    Having more than one antenna?

    If your stations are close to 180 degrees apart and you properly connect two antenna together, you may have the success that Minsk1 mentioned without a jointenna. When you combine antenna this way, you mayhave to expirement with balun/transformer connection to ensure their polarities match.
  4. jrfuda

    Having more than one antenna?

    Omnidirectional antennas do not work well. I tried one, since my stations come from multiple directions, and it did not work. All stations were degraded, even ones that I could pickup with an indoor terk HDTVa were not able to be received by an OUTDOOR RS amplified Omnidirectional antenna...
  5. jrfuda

    Having more than one antenna?

    Rick, looks like we were both right. The 5 Channel seperation is true for the VHF channels, with one channel seperation for the UHF channels, hence my success with using a channel 32 jointenna to get 32 of a dedicated antenna and 30 off my "all channel" antenna. I was wrong, however, about the...
  6. jrfuda

    Having more than one antenna?

    I was told that as well by several folks when I was first looking into jointennas. I think CM has recently refined their design. I have a ch 32 jointenna, and it works as advertised with ch 30 on the "all channels" input. If it was attenuating 5 channels out, my channel 30 reception would be...
  7. jrfuda

    Having more than one antenna?

    Channel Master makes a device called a jointenna. You'll need one on the same freq as your CBS channel. You then connect the CBS antenna to its bandpass input (blocks all freqs but CBS) and your other antenna to the "all channels" input (passes all channels but CBS), then connect the jointenna's...
  8. jrfuda

    Multiple OTA antennas for HDTV?

    Thanks for the feedback. All my plans/expirements are on hold until I find out if I'm staying in this house or moving in June/July. The only good thing about the move is that I'll be about 5 miles closer to my distance station and 5 miles further from my near stations.... However, I'll be living...
  9. jrfuda

    Multiple OTA antennas for HDTV?

    Guys, I received my channel 32 jointenna and CM 7777 preamp yesterday and installed them this morning. Here are my new results: 4-1 WOAI-D (UHF 58): 100%, clear 5-1 KENS-D (UHF 55): 100%, clear 9-1 KLRN-D (VHF 8): 75%, occasional macro blocking (every few minutes) 12-1 KSAT-D (UHF 48)...
  10. jrfuda

    Multiple OTA antennas for HDTV?

    Thanks everyone, I've done a lot of reading over the past several days. Right now I have it working pretty well WITHOUT using any bandpass filters/jointenna devices, however, I just barely have channel 32 (68%), and changes in atmospheric conditions will probably make it go away. I get...
  11. jrfuda

    Multiple OTA antennas for HDTV?

    I went back and forth between doing and not doing this, but even though logic said I should not have done this, and should just wait for HD Sat locals to be available, the tinkerer in me won and I had to start messing with stuff. First I tried this...
  12. jrfuda

    Multiple OTA antennas for HDTV?

    This is a duplicate post that I made at the AVSForum, but thought y'all may be able to offer some advice as well... ;) I currently have my indoor antenna, a Terk HDTVa, aimed at 157 degrees, which gets most of my stations in zip code 78244. Here's a screencap of my antennaweb results...