curt_dawg2000

curt_dawg2000

I read your first post, I would suggest a set of rabbit ears with a amplifier on it. I dont see why it would not work for you. It would also save you a lot of work on taking the antenna down. And doing some rewiring,I hope I have helped you good luck stormy.

Stormy

So you think rabbit ears would work better in my case? I'm just not sure what to do because my roof antenna worked pretty well before the digital transition.

Piggie

Rabbit ears would get you about the first 5 stations on the TVFool list, maybe.

You should do an over haul on your antenna system, not much really and yes 125 ft of coax is a lot of loss including a splitter. About -10 db of loss at least.

But you will have to be careful which amplifier you buy for several reasons. One is your strongest station is very strong and could overload an amp very easily.

A small antenna booster such as the Winegard HDP 269 SquareShooter Pre-Amplifier for SquareShooter SS-1000 (HDP-269) | HDP-269 [Winegard] would over come the loss in your system without overload.

You would want to mast mount this amp at the antenna if it's not too hard to get to the antenna. While you are at the antenna you should change the balun. Channel Master CM3075 Outdoor Matching Transformer (CM0089) | CM0089 [Channel Master]

Also don't forget you will need two short coax jumpers to go from the antenna to the amp, and one from the power suppy inside to the splitter. It's best if you put the indoor part before the splitter, unless you know your splitter is power active.

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