Attic vs. Outside

[cditty]

I have an antenna mounted in my attic. It delivers excellent performance on all but one station (which is in the opposite direction). That station is actually fine on my TV tuners, but my Dish tuner module loses it constantly because of multipath.

I have a unique situation in that I have a water tower behind my house which bounces all my signals.

The question... If I were to move the antenna outside onto a mast, do you think I would improve my reception or increase my multipath and make the Dish receiver act up on the other channels?

I don't *really* mind the one I deleted, because it is NBC, but Friday Night Lights is back on and I kinda like it.

Any of you gurus have any suggestions?

 

[Mr Tony]

How far away is that tower? (the station in the opposite direction)

You do lose a fair amount of signal with it in the attic. If you can get it outside that would be better and if it can get higher that would really help. I learned that with my experience of getting the distant VHF station.

Higher is better

 

[digiblur]

Put it outside. Let it get some fresh air like an antenna is supposed to

 

[cditty]

What is worrying me is that the signal I am losing is actually a good thing.

The one I am having trouble with is a full power UHF. I get it great, the dish ota tuner just craps out on the multipath. On my tv tuners, it never breaks up.

I think I'll try it outside. I have the cable infrastructure to test it with minimal trouble.

 

[rickaren]

What is worrying me is that the signal I am losing is actually a good thing.

The one I am having trouble with is a full power UHF. I get it great, the dish ota tuner just craps out on the multipath. On my tv tuners, it never breaks up.

I think I'll try it outside. I have the cable infrastructure to test it with minimal trouble.

I have had both with the same issues and moving it to a roof mount corrected it. Not always the easiest solution works, but always worth a try!