Posted by jdemaris on August 30, 2009 at 06:45:58 from (67.142.130.42):
I've got a fairly techincal question as it relates to hooking up some antennas to TVs.
I live in an area where there was NO over-the-air TV reception for 30 years. Since the digital changeover, there are now many available. That because of several factors. Many transmitters got moved when they went to digital. Many also changed from VHF to UHF, or vice-versa. Many also changed their KW output.
So, here's what I'm trying to find out. I mapped out my property, measuing signal strength. Then installed two antennas. One is UHF only and 500 feet from my house. The other is a combo VHF/UHF and is 150 feet from my house. Both are the highest gain available and both with preamps.
I've got them both working great, independently. But, is there a way I can join those two RG-6 coax leads into one common lead?
I tried using a conventional coax splitter, i.e. one into two, or two into one. It loses half the UHF signal when connected. So, I temporarily put in a manual A-B switch and all works fine. But final hook-up will require a lot of extra wire. I'd like to find a way to have all in one coax. This would also enable one TV to pick up all stations without flipping an A-B switch.
I'll add that I am aware of the available "signal combiners." But, every one I've looked at, has one UHF input, one VHF input, and one combined output. So, I figure my UHF-only antenna would work fine. But, my combo VHF/UHF, when plugged into that VHF only port, would get its UHF portion filtered out?
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