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    Looking for a VHF/UHF Combiner

    I spoke to him in mid 2021, but now getting no response from multiple Emails and phone numbers that I have. Will keep searching and let you know if I have news.
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    Looking for a VHF/UHF Combiner

    UVSJ was a part number originally used by Pico Macom in California. It has been long since discontinued. It separates UHF and VHF signals (or can combine them when reversed) with approximately 0.5 dB insertion loss. There are other similar devices with different nomenclatures. Try Holland...
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    Shielding the back side of a yagi antenna

    Are you in Waukesha, or further west--towards Madison? The low power channel 23 station from Madison (transmitting from Odana Road) now has Buzzr on their dot 2 subchannel. Probably reliable to about 30 miles eastward without making special installation. Buzzr is likely also available via Roku...
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    Shielding the back side of a yagi antenna

    Find a piece of roofing tin (sold in 3 foot widths of varying lengths). Start with perhaps a 3 foot x 6 foot section and with a friend's help move it around the back side of your antenna (Madison side). See if you can reduce the signal enough to get Milwaukee. The obvious solution is to be on...
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    Some TV Channels Come In Better in the Mornings

    An old saying that I heard again and again while living in Alaska--necessity is the mother of invention. When you do not have appropriate hardware and/or other normal solutions, they are created on the spot. I probably would not have designed and built 16 to 20 foot spherical antennas back in...
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    Some TV Channels Come In Better in the Mornings

    Too bad these antennas were all torn down around the state of Alaska during the 1990s. I once read an article by an old time broadcast engineer that reported these antennas were great for AM radio reception. An explanation about connecting a portable battery operated AM radio to a ground...
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    Hadley, PA Antenna Question

    I have two different UHF-VHF models of the Televes antennas. They have an incredible low noise preamp with two separate parallel outputs---which makes them shine on UHF. VHF High Band is a stretch, because you have little more than the equivalent of a dipole and a great preamp for channels...
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    Inexpensive UHF antenna

    You might take a look at jet.com They have a UHF/VHF antenna listed for 79.90. Free shipping. 15% additional off for new customers on their first 3 orders, so I got one for under $68 delivered. Look under the Televes (Spain) listing for a model 790 at that price. Includes a 32 dB high...
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    Incentive Auction Discussion

    A stupid question to ponder. Stations forced to relocate from the high end of the UHF band to somewhere below channel 29 (or wherever the cutoff turns out to be): do they have to immediately adopt ATSC 3.0, or will there be an ability to simply change to a new frequency while retaining use of...
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    Can i get some major networks - TVfools info supplied

    Roku announced recently that all support has ended for Roku 1 and 2 boxes (and this includes some obsolete so-called Special edition sticks marketed at places including WalMart). This means that you must either use the Roku 3 or get the latest Roku stick that IS supported by them. There may be...
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    Can i get some major networks - TVfools info supplied

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    Connecting 2 different antennas on the same mast

    The drawing shows you how to effectively limit the signals from the combo antenna pointed at channel 3 to VHF only, and the UHF antenna to UHF only. If you want to gain added UHF coverage from the VHF/UHF antenna pointing at channel 3, go to the first UVSJ device and remove the F59T terminator...
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    Connecting 2 different antennas on the same mast

    Did you look at the drawing that I attached to post #12 and the explanation in #13? All you need is three UVSJ combiner/separators, two F59T terminators (all Pico part #s) and some jumper cables. This will keep interaction between the outputs of both antennas to a minimum on the bands that...
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    Connecting 2 different antennas on the same mast

    Take a look at the drawing that I put together for you. Normally, if you feed separate UHF and VHF antennas into appropriate ports of a UHF-VHF combiner (Pico UVSJ or other equivalent), they will not interfere with each other. Unless the UHF signal is strong enough on the VHF antenna that it...
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    Connecting 2 different antennas on the same mast

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    atsc antenna

    You do not realize sarcasm when you see it. 75 to 300 ohm transformers are not designed to pass power. A DC block to isolate one would eliminate the electricity that you say is necessary to run at 75 ohms. On short cable runs it is seldom necessary to use a preamp (DC powered usually), so I...
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    Can i get some major networks - TVfools info supplied

    Sounds like you may be too close to the ground, and the presence of your body is affecting the signal. I would try at different heights near rooftop level somehow and see if you can not only regain KABC/7.1, but also channels 9, 11 and 13, which should be similar in power level. If the...
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    atsc antenna

    No kidding? My 75 to 300 ohm transformer is the non-electric version. If I plug AC or DC into the connection it will damage the transformer. Do you have a better electric one that you can recommend?
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    Need OTA advice please

    Everyone is giving up too easily and the above is good advice. And you cannot always believe everything on .TV Fool. There is a relay for NBC in Aberdeen on uhf Ch 33. If you can get other relays/translators from Aberdeen using a healthy sized UHF antenna and a preamp, your situation is not as...
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    I hope this does not kill what possible subchannels I could get in the future.

    Sit back and wait...I'm sure it will be publicly announced when the idea goes mainstream.
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    Can i get some major networks - TVfools info supplied

    Correction: FilmOn has apparently exited putting U.S. broadcast stations on their website. Even when they had legal issues about putting up the O & O network flagship stations, the great majority of the Los Angeles spectrum was there to watch. See what Roku can do, because you are in a...
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    I hope this does not kill what possible subchannels I could get in the future.

    For those blessed with high speed internet, Weigel will offer a cost effective package that contains all of their existing stations and more. That may not help a lot of folks in rural areas, but it will be an option that can be purchased with Roku and other devices.
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    Can i get some major networks - TVfools info supplied

    You've got an open shot to Box Mountain, so that's why channel 24 is working. A lot of locations in the San Fernando Valley and north on I-5 simply cannot see that Mt Wilson antenna farm despite its 6000 foot elevation. Tropo will often open up San Diego and Tijuana, with nothing in the way but...
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    What's the furthest out your antenna has ever reached?

    Analog received in Grand Forks, N.D. Channel 3 from Las Vegas, NV (1229 miles) the night that Robert Kennedy was killed (6-05-68) Channel 3 KIII Corpus Christi-TX (1388 miles) at least once every summer in the 1960s & 1970s. FM Radio from Madison WI: Several stations from Calgary...
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    Movies! and H & I coming to Madison, WI

    Not a bad tradeoff. THIS is losing affiliates everywhere since its operation was transferred over to Tribune, and Weigel has been very aggressive about getting affiliates to replace THIS with Movies!, Decades, or any of their services. A study of my list tells me that Madison will have all of...
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