combined tv antenna?

mmidlam

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I saw a combined antenna system where a rotor was not needed. There were two antennas permanently pointed in different direction on top of a tower. It appears to be a factory made unit. There was only one download lead.
I was not able to see the brand or model. Anyone happen to know about this?
 
Do not know about that one but my mom has an antenna that looks like a couple of plates sandwiched together and is about 18 inches in diameter and it has the rotor built right in
 
Yes those have been around for 50 pluss yrs. Ive put a good many of them up. Channels2,7,9 north and 4,6 east transmitters were around 50mi away.
 
We used to have a rotor at our cabin, but then we had to do a channel scan every time we rotated. So, I installed a second antenna pointing at the second tower, and hooked them both to the same booster, and it works great. No more rotor. There are websites where you can determine what direction you need to point the antennas.
 
Amateur (Ham) radio operators who are heavily into radio contesting will affix a directional antenna on a tower to point to one part of the country or the world that is heavily populated with other ham radio operators, and have another directional antenna on the top of the tower that is direction controlled by a rotator. They do this "to save time" and to log another contact while waiting for "the beam to swing around.". Some hams mount a directional antenna on the side of their tower and can rotate the antenna with a " tic-ring" rotator.

Scott
 
I've got 2 antennas on the same mast, pointed different directions to get Cincinnati and Lexington stations

Used a splitter in reverse to connect the 2 to 1 coax lead to the house. Used a signal booster as well.

They're separated by 5 feet on the mast, should be farther apart, but I ran out of mast

Works pretty good, need a taller pole, this was an experiment to see about getting rid of satellite TV.....saved about $1200 so far.

Fred
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Since the conversion to digital TV signal, almost all the stations are UHF frequencies now, so the big flat fan is no longer needed, only the vee shaped UHF antenna. We have two, one aimed at Chicago and the other South Bend. I just did the auto scan tonight on our main TV, and had 60 different stations to choose from- most get deleted from the rotation, but they are there if needed.

And we still find the need for Netflix and the kids just got me an Amazon stick to watch movies...
 
The direction is spot on for my address, but it says only one broadcast station, but I actually get 6, with each of them having from 2 to 4 separate channels.
 
I just finished setting up two different antennas and have great success. I first put an Denny's HD Stacker antenna up (google Dennys antenna service for that antenna), but found I could not obtain results I wanted - which was receiving stations from two directions. I then purchased a smaller RCA antenna from a box store connected them both to a combiner/splitter, into a preamp. You will need to tweak the two antennas for direction, but it worked well for me, and I am in a very weak signal area, but now receive approx 20 stations (with digital many are broadcast from same tower). Between a Netflix subscription for about $8, my antenna setup, and some movies I have on a USB drive using a Western Digital Live box, I unloaded the Dish Network subscription. I got tired of the constant rate increases, and them bleeding me for nearly $100 a month, and honestly I do not miss it like I thought I would. I did spend roughly $200 for the antennas and amp (I had a decent push up pole to mount the antennas on). Money well spent.
 
Here is another site to give you some idea what channels you can get.
http://www.tvfool.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29
 

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