Installation thoughts.

[Kraven]

Folks, any feedback on the below setup is appreciated.

Antenna #1 Pointing North
Antenna #2 Pointing South

Both have 8 feet of RG6 going into a splitter/combiner, output has 5 feet of rg6 going into a CM7777 pre-amp. Output has 80ft of rg6 going into house feeding into a cm3414 4 output amp.

Thoughts? Would this work? Or using a pre-amp and an amp is just overkill?

Cheers, K

 

[Mr Tony]

With a pre-amp you need the other part hooked up too. So the 7777 has 2 pieces. One that goes by the antenna and one that goes in the house

The distribution amp does that. It keeps the signal stable after the split.

 

[Bob2011]

Well if you look at tvfool everything is LOS if you are anywhere south of Montreal, even the US stations from Burlington. I would say a preamp is overkill unless your antenna pointing south has little gain. If you really are going to have 4 TVs on long runs then the distribution amp would be something to look at.

 

[Jim5506]

Just keep in mind that using a common splitter/combiner to join two antennas, 1/2 of the signal from antenna #1 is radiated out of antenna #2 and 1/2 of the signal from antenna #2 is radiated out antenna #1, so if you do not have ample signal at the antenna, you mauy very wellhave signal levels too low to demodulate at the TV tuner.

To get 100% of available signal, you need an A/B switch on the antennas or some sort of special joiner to combine the antenna leads.