I do have it outside mounted up 20 feet on a tree. It is not directly pointing at a tree but there are trees off in the distance.
Must not be a thick forest, or you wouldn't be getting as good as you got.
I try not to use the rotor but on occasion I catch myself tweaking the direction.
That's why you need an antenna with a little wider beam width. The Yagi is very directional.
I would love to get it higher but tough to go up the tree any higher on an extension ladder without it getting hairy. For the most part I have been happy with the 38 plus channels I get.
Understood. Don't risk life or limb(s). I wish you could try a tall pole, but probly not worth the investment, just on the off chance... Wait! Did you try different heights in the TVF Report?
I have it set at around 55 degrees but not too sure. I am using a compass on my smartphone and seem to get different reading all the time. I do pull in the stations around the 55 degrees mark but also pull in those Spanish stations above me that I would rather not get. I wish I could pull in the stations at the 125 degree area but as soon as I move the antenna to the right more, I lose the Boston stations.
Gotcha. Ouch, that means you can't get NBC! I think Steve and I are hoping to get you Boston as well as the the 125 degree stations -- with no need to rotate. (No guarantees.)
If you want to get obsessive, you could find the exact direction with Google maps, provided you're close to a public road. That would be the "True" direction headings on the report. OTOH, some trial and error will come into play anyhow with the direction.
So why am I getting the Spanish stations to the left?
Ah, there we go into the realm of witches brew and magic dust... WAIT! The Spanish WUNI is 1 edge, and the 125 degree stations are all 2 edge. That might be the super-scientific reason, or it might just be a load of :deadhorse:
Sometimes my signal has been weak and I tried adding a signal booster but it interfered with the antenna built in one and I got no signal. I then moved the booster to the line running into my living room TV and the signal was too strong and I lost channels.
What kind of booster? What you need to overcome the splitting, and long coax run, is a pre-amplifier, and it should be as close to the antenna as possible -- has to be outside, long before coax meets the splitter. Splitter is inside, I assume.
How come? I then ran it through a splitter before it reached the TV and it knocked the signal down some and seems to work better.
That's too nutty for me.
STOP IT! :daffy:
The amp is adding all kinds of noise to the system. We gotta get something better set up.
Forgot to mention that I have the cable wire coming into the bedroom and then feeds the TV there and then on to the living room. I have a Vizio TV in bedroom that gets more channels than my Samsung in the living room. The tuner on my bedroom TV works great even though it is a cheap TV. Crazy! I ended up buying a iview 3500II converter box which I really like and that has helped the signal to my Samsung. I use that as my tuner. Still does not get all the channels my Vizio TV gets. Weird.
Well, that's what you get with a weird setup like that! Or it could just be the extra length of coax from the bedroom to the living room. Or the Vizio might have a really good tuner. I have a $60 Walmart TV -- tuner seems PDG.
I think I would go with this:
Stellar Labs HDTV 60 Mile Fringe Bowtie Television Antenna | 30-2425 (302425) | Stellar Labs which is the same antenna Steve first recommended, but $17 cheaper, after you add shipping. If you think you want high VHF WNAC and WPRI let us know now. Fox and CBS are duplicated elsewhere, but they might have subchannels or local programming you want, so that's your homework assignment. I have another antenna in mind, if those two channels are important.
I also think you'll probably need a pre-amp, since you're splitting some marginal signals, but try it first with no amp, and just one two way splitter (two way -- that's important) to feed the two TVs. Then if you don't get all the green and yellow UHF stations you want (excepting WUNI, WNAC and WPRI), get back to us with the model number of your amplifier. Might have to scuttle that one and get a nice, low noise pre-amp.
Good Luck,
Rick