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installed the new digital antenna on a thirty foot pole,spent most of the morning trying to get some kinda signal,finally got three PBS and one CBS, have decided were just in a dead zone, one of my ham buddies said my only hope is an amplifier.So guess i got to explore that option.
I'm running a pre-amp here also. Makes the difference between a signal or not.
I bought a satellite system at a Circuit City or something like that around 2000 for $99(installed it myself) and for a penny more got an amplified TV top antenna for picking up local stations. I think its a "TERK" brand. It plugs in for the amplification, and has a horizontal, square figure 8 that will rotate horizontally. It doesn't extend or anything
In Nashville where I lived then there was no shortage of local stations, but here in the Oklahoma boonies it's rather limited. I mostly pick up a PBS relay station which for the most part works fine for me, hek, with the numerous stations I got in TN that's where it would usually wind up anyway.
I used a maybe 20' coax extension I'd picked up somewhere and moved it up in the attic and it does fairly well. I can pick up network stations 100 miles away when I want to, and since the HDTV came out I use a converter box too, and even ran another coax cable to the back room where I made a computer breakdown/work room, and put another old TV up in a corner, the only drawback with that one is I've gotta come up front and change channels on the converter box when I want to change channels back there.
There's days when I pick up stations 150 miles away
Well an update on the Battle of the TV Signal, talked to the local radio and antenna guy,who happened to be working on the firetruck across the street, told me all i need is a 100 foot tower, and i could proably get all the channels i wanted,LOL other than that i dont have much of a prayer.The local or used to be local ABC stations transmitor collapsed a few years ago, they stuck it on a mountain further north, Im sure the demographics had something to do with it, they picked up range in the more populated northern area,lost down here in the less dense rural area.So i'm going to hook up the antenna to a small set i got, i know i can get a couple stations out of Mississippi, So i guess i'll just work with them.