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evenout said:

I've got an antenna mounted on a tower outside, it's about 35 to 40 foot up. It doesn't get very good reception. It's using the old flat (300 ohm?) cable, which I think the wind has tore up pretty good over the years. I also suspect that the amplifier up on the antenna is pretty much shot.

I'd like to run new coax up to the antenna and into the TV. I've got the coax to do that. But I'm not too much of a heights person and 40 foot up is a bit too far for me and even if I could get up there, I'm not sure I'd have two hands to do anything with.

Is this something I could have hired out to have someone do. If I provided the coax and got a new amplifier (the right kind) would they climb up there or bring a lift and hook that up. Where would I go to find someone to do such a task? Any ideas on about how much it would cost? Would some of the local satellite installers do something like this? What would be a typical charge? Are we talking like $50 or $200 or even more? I don't expect anybody to nail down a specific price, I'd just like to know a general ballpark figure of what I could expect to pay and if a local satellite installer if that is something they might do.

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evenout said:

The antenna used to work, a few months ago or so. It didn't work that great, but local channels came in from about 50 miles away, maybe further (would cut in and out a lot). But it kept getting progressively worse. I figured it was the ragged flat cable and now I think the amplifier may be bad as well. Now I only get a channel that's about 5 or 10 miles away. I rarely use the antenna, but the recent Raycom blackout on DirecTV has got me thinking about getting it fixed for a kind of backup plan

I might be just as well off to get a new antenna and mount it closer to the ground. Is a newer antenna 10 foot or so off the ground better than an older antenna 30 foot off the ground?

As far as professional install, I was really kind of asking if satellite installers might do the job off hours, I thought they might have the equipment or the straps to climb up there. I've got the coax to run, I can run it under the house to the TV, there's a ground wire already run. I was mainly asking if this is something satellite installers might do in their time off. I'll pay them, but not necessarily looking for anything professional. Would they have the equipment to do the job? Do any of you all have a small electronics outfit/satellite install business, is this something you do for people? Someone that might have a lineman's harness or something to climb up the tower and a higher appreciation for heights.

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