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I hope you do want to power splitter soon. I read them my living room and when I added the second TV I'm lost channels period when I unplugged the living room one the reception in my bedroom went back to normal. And yes I have RG6 cable on both sets
This man knows what he is talking about. He helped me select the equipment and proper installation of it,, that allowed us to go from 1 available TV channel,, to 18 channels!! My country get away is the best now! Thanks Tyler, if you ever get to Southeast Texas... I 'll have a steak on the grill and ice cold beer waiting for you.
The small Televes antenna with a built-in preamp I got for my mother works great. She lives on top of a hill and the TV towers are 40 miles away and the reception is awesome. She had been using one of the flat indoor pieces of junk for years until we had her roof replaced which included a metallic underlayment that killed the reception. She is very happy with her new antenna and getting more channels now. Thanks Tyler.
My folks live on the edge of their OTA market. Their antenna worked fine until stations started migrating to ATSC 3.0. Saw your videos on ATSC 3.0 and preamps. Installed a Televes 560383 single input. Totally worth it. They get all the original channels now, and even a few from a neighboring market. Thanks for the info and posting your videos!
Just installed the $85 Televes pre amp and finally success bringing Philly channels in for my Bethlehem zip code 18017! After trying three differential antenna going bigger each time and limited success, so many trips up & down the ladder. Moved here 4 years ago and finally I can watch channels 3-6-10, NBC, ABC, CBS, 17, FOX, 29. Finally with help of Antenna Man I no longer can blame the nearby mountain for casting for a twilight zone when it came to receiving TV reception. 😊❤
I had a flat square window antenna that never really worked, so after hearing you educate about the horizontal antenna element to get VHF channels, I folded a 2.5 ft. sheet of tinfoil into a narrow stick and taped across the back of the cheap antenna. Now I get ALL the channels including CBS-2 in Chicago which had always been impossible. I live in 3rd flr apt 18 mi from (and with window facing) the broadcast tower downtown. Thanks Antenna Man - my cable bill dropped from $125 to $25 for internet only (Roku)
I bought the Channel Master dual gain model a couple of years ago and it has been a solid build. I believe I’m running it on the high gain and haven’t had any issues. The only down side (if there is one) is that it tends to be harder to purchase because even when I bought it was frequently out of stock.
I got the dual Televes pre-amp and gotta say I love it. To avoid interference from both antenna I made sure they are separated by 5' on the pole with exactly same cable length from the pre-amp to both antenna. And making sure the lower antenna on the pole points to the closest market.
I've always found spacing the antennas 5 ft apart causes issues as I keep the close as possible, but do make sure the coax is the same length running to the combiner from both antennas. Also found using one transformer helps.
@@jamesm568 also keep in mind I do aim at two very different market, being close to the USA/Canada border I have one antenna pointing to Canadian market and one pointing to USA market both broadcasting very different channel and no RF frequency overlap.
Televes preamps have automatic gain control. This feature sets it apart from the rest. It won't kill strong signals to get weak ones. I have one on a High VHF antenna and one on a separate UHF antenna. Work perfectly.
I just got the televes single input model 560383 pre amp with the power distribution plug. I followed the directions and have the one line going to the pre amp from the antenna and the other going to the f connector/power distributor where it branches out to the tv. I turned the switch on and I don’t get a green light. If I hook up a small amplifier (no included in kit) with a coax cable and connect that to the pre amp then I get a green light. Can someone please tell me what the hell I’m doing wrong? 😂
Live abut 8 miles from the towers-preamp causes distortion (in my case)-I use a distribution amp to feed my Tivo,HD Homerun and TV. As always,you have a very informative video.
I have a longrange Telves antenna & the Telves preamp shown. Routinely receive signals from 87 miles with exact pin point alignment on a 20 foot pole which is the tallest allowed here. Best is that there are also within 30 & 40 miles strong signals which are not effected. I highly recommend Telves antenna's which are well manufactured & the Telves pre-amp. I live in a flat area huge amount of trees & with the earth curvature receiving these signals during the afternoon was once an impossible dream but since installation normal with only very occasional weather caused outages from the weakest stations.
I've been using the Channel Master Amplify since 2017 and its been great on low it adds just enough gain to get all the channels in my area. I'm about 46-48 miles west of Phily in the NJ Pine Barrens with lots of tall pine trees.
@@AntennaMan I'm currently on the high gain setting. I had some drop out and pixelation on the VHF channels on low. After setting it to high gain all 60 channels come in perfect with no drop out regardless of time and day or weather. With the low setting we only brought in 45 channels.
I recently replaced my 40 year old giant Channel Master Ch 2-69 antenna with the two best UHF and Hi band VHF antennas I could find. I also purchased the latest Kitz Technologies dual input preamp and am very satisfied with the setup. Kitz is a small company probably catering to TV DXers but their prices are competitive. The noise figure of the preamp is very low (good). Your viewers should know of this choice too.
Bought a Kitz Technologies - KT-200 a little over a year ago. It works great. Very high quality amp made in the USA. If I decide to run a dual antenna set-up (UHF and Hi-VHF antenna) I'll buy the newer KT-700 dual input amp like you bought.
spot on. I have the Televes pre-amp running the antenna to my den TV, and the RCA running to the Flex 4K in the upstairs guest room. both are working great. I always judged my pre-amps by how many channels they would pull in connected to an antenna off my deck mounted on a PVC pipe. The Televez won hands down. I liked Antenna Direct's JUICE pre-amp as well. During my trials, I ended up dropping it one time too many and it quit working. LOL.....
I added the RCA one you mentioned first to my GE Pro Yagi Directional antenna setup. I didn't even take the antenna down to add it and instead spliced it in about 15-20 feet down from the antenna and I picked up 3 more channels one of them being the Movies! channel which is sweet. I also don't have as many issues with other channels. I will most likely move it to be closer to the antenna this spring when it's nice and warm if I feel like I need to.
Just finished installing the Televes Single Input Preamp for my neighbor. Using a Antennas Direct ClearStream 4V TV Antenna she is now receiving 73 channels. Increase of 23 channels.
As someone who installed cable for 15 years Tyler really know his stuff. I lived near a mountain in Arizona a lot people in this one particular community would complain about poor signal for this one local channel and yet the antenna for this channel was less than 1/2 a mile away. The reason the signal was bad in this community was similar to someone with a microphone standing to close to the speaker causing feed back.. TV signal does the same thing. And just so you know WIFi can do the same also. So buy adding a TV amplifier can also cause problems. Think about what happens when you crank up the Amp when your listening to Led Zeppelin and Robert Plant’s voice in now causing your ears to bleed even more than they were before. The signal distorts and doesn’t improve the sound. Same applies to TV and wifi signal. 😂 Hope this analogy is appreciated. Thanks for all you do Tyler I have learn’t an incredible amount from your channel.
6:11 I installed a Winegard LNA-200 yesterday and UT was the right choice because I mixed a Channel Master all-channel TV antenna with a Yagi FM antenna to get 89.9 WDAV, using one coax to the inside. I was pleased with the results as I was able to get all the local channels plus 50 FM
I and a client have tested and found that the very low cost GE preamp is good. In my client’s situation he had both a strong station and a week one and after trying both Winegard and Channel Master the GE was the one that worked for him. I used to think that preamplifiers were only for compensating for cable and splitter signal loss but after testing the unique auto-gain adjusting Televes single-input preamp with a small Stellar Labs combination antenna and a short cable the difference in the antenna’s performance was so dramatic that I would not just think of it for compensating for signal loss.
Thanks A.M. You helped me select an aerial a few years back. Its been great as i Pointed it directly at the station antenna i watch the most. Other channels come in fine, but have always had pixelation on a few channels we view on occasion (SUN & MNF). I'm hoping this pre amp will fix the issue.
Another reason to amplify is if you intend to use a splitter to feed multiple TVs/DVRs. The common 2:1 splitter costs you about 3dB[1] of gain. You will often want to run a feed to the living room and one to a bedroom or something. From there, in the living room, there may be an additional split to feed a DVR along with the TV set. [1] the dB unit of gain is not a linear unit of measure. 3dB means the power got doubled. 6dB means the factor is 4 and 9 dB means a factor of 8. If you hook two splitters in series you get 3dB+3dB=6dB of signal loss AKA a factor of 4 on the power.
@@larsord9139 An amplifier in the antenna means that when the amplifier fails, the whole antenna is junk. Antennas basically never fail. The same can't be said for amplifiers and this goes double when stuff is out in the weather.
after a a prior model channel master got corroded and quit in less than two years, i disconnected it and connected the cables to each other to bypass the booster box on the aerial mast for a while. i think with the channel master i only got about 40 channels on a good day (in tampa bay area). after watching this vid i got that RCA booster and i now have over 70 channels clear as a bell. i had no idea there were this many channels available.
I made that mistake years ago with the old RadioShack preamps always thinking higher gain is better. I was wondering why the picture was wavy on certain channels back in the analog days. The answer back then was signal attenuators you could install inline just before the coax went into the TV. You could turn back the gain up to 20db. How nice it would have been to have a preamp with automatic gain adjustment.
Almost 20 years ago I bought a Channel Master model 4221 4-bay UHF antenna and a Channel Master cheap preamp model that had built-in 300ohm to 75ohm balun. I believe that preamp gets about 15dB or so gain which is plenty for my setup with just under 100feet RG6 coax from the antenna in the back of the house to my garage where I have a 4way splitter and the preamp power supply. The splitter feeds the existing RG59 coax lines inside the house walls to 4 rooms, that was originally used for years with cable TV, but now after switching to cable internet only I use that instead for the split antenna signal to three TVs internal digital tuner and also to my PC which has a wintv tuner card. I figure the loss of the outdoor RG6 coax cable and 4 way splitter plus shorter runs of the indoor old RG59 cable is about or under the 15dB gain of the preamp so I get good signal strength and SNR at the TVs. Also my old 4221 antenna is able to receive the two high VHF signals in my area (channel 8 and 10) fairly well even with one hill that causes those VHF signals to have to bounce over it, compared to the UHF signals in my area that are further away but have line of sight so they come in stronger. My VHF channels I get 28-30dB SNR and the UHF channels I get 33+dB SNR and no dropouts or other issues. Luckily my house is at the top of a hill and near the highest elevation in my area about 800ft above sea level. Other houses nearby are way down the hill and would probably have very poor reception compared to mine. Because of my house's high elevation I've found I don't need a tall mast above the house, I get great signal with the low profile 4-bay UHF antenna mounted stealthily under the eaves of my house in the back using a Channel Master universal antenna mount that has a 44" mast included that I have mounted up-side down. In my area of north San Diego county, the two VHF channels come from slightly west of south while all the local UHF channels come from south east so I have almost 60degrees between those two TV broadcast locations. The 4-bay UHF antenna handles that wide coverage well without a rotor!
I've never, never placed any confidence is a pre amp. I believe I'm with you inorder to get the antenna going with as close to 30 db gain, as possible. Sorry I learned this from ham and CB radios. I became easily able to connect to people thousands of miles away and even with skip across to Sidney. Very amazing to me all with a standard, or so I say, antenna. I was playing with antennas for my crystal am radio set. And the world became bigger. Gee I made improvements from creating a good ground plain. What ever you are right on for all your recommendations. I should not say how I improve all my stationary CB & FM, & even marine. You keep up the good work.
I've watched a number of your videos and they are very informative. At home I mostly watch cable TV but I do have an OTA for back up when cable goes out. I also have a travel trailer that came with an OTA antenna and amplifier. I travel a lot up and down the east coast. What I have found out is that I get mostly the same content no matter where I travel. I usually get the locals, but get a lot and I me a lot of infomercials, Spanish speaking channels and duplicates, which I assume are both HD and non HD of the same channel. It doesn't matter how good an antenna works if the content your receiving is bad. Out of the 30 to 40 some channels I'll get, only one or two have something I want to watch. THIS, COZI, GRIT, Comet, LAFF, Newsy, QVC and HSN seem to be OTA everywhere. I don't see me giving up cable in the near future.
I ran an insane amount of cheap cable to an outside antenna and got 15 channels. I got a high quality cable that's 6 ft to a mohu w/ their booster in a corner wall & didn't think it would work. I can get sometimes get 61 channels or as low as 29 upon rescan. I never thought cable meant so much.
The antenna booster I use on my RCA indoor antennas work fairly well. I get many channels and the signals are pretty strong most of the time. I don't really have nothing to complain about.
As a retired Navy TV repair man I can attest to much of what he said. I have a neighbor that has property in Palm Coast FL. He is not at this property enough to pay for cable. Sadly the closest TV signal is out of Daytona. He purchased an attic antenna and amplifier and is able to get 5 channels. I would like to get information on an antenna system that can bring on WiFi sources from open Wi-Fi networks. He is a Comcast customer and should be allowed to utilize one of Comcast's open Wi-Fi hotspot. He could then use that system with a streaming player for TV programming. I find it unacceptable that there are TV antenna's that can pick up signals 40 plus miles away but a open Wi-Fi connection that is 3 miles away is impossible to get. :(
Have that model you showed and never had a major issue. Even used whatever splitter and cable was left from the previous TV service into the house. Only issue was the crappy cable it came with dry rotting over the years and cracking.
My antique Terk HDTVa indoor antenna, combined with a 15dB NeXxtech single port RF amplifier, gets me up to 50 channels here in Toronto Ontario Canada. Many are transmitted from New York. Without the amplifier, I only get a few local channels.
*ANTENNA MAN* Hmm -- Sounds like a superhero! Guess he kinda is a superhero to those of us who can't afford cable/satellite services. I appreciate ur videos cuz ur honest and non-bias toward products. I trust ur advice and recommendations. Grear job, my friend. 😉👍
I live in Palm Bay in east central Florida most of the antenna i use works pretty good. My home made antenna works better than some of the ones i bought I use one of those paper type in my living room works fine about eight feet off the floor one thing i can say sometimes i get as much over thirty channels.
@@RarestAce Agree, but one thing about RG11, is you can bury it and never worry about it. It is tough as nails. Depending on what type of RG11 you get too. Some is more flexible than others.
@@patrickmartin4996 That is very true. I honestly was considering going RG11 for my antenna setup just from the antenna itself down to my distribution system. But with the cost of it plus having to get the rg11 tools and connectors sadly put my project over budget. I went with a very high quality quad shield rg6 and the system has preformed beautifully
@@RarestAce I ran RG11 out to the Antennas Direct 91XG, at about 65 feet. I know it was over kill, but I had some and used it. It had connectors already on it, so I did not have to deal with that. It was a hair short, so I added a barrel to it and completed the run to the amp with quad shield RG6. I really doubt the RG11 made any difference, as I am 12.2 miles from our translators, Line of Sight. They run in power from 6200 watts to 548 watts and they all come in well. A couple of them, so not work well with indoor antennas, and the 91XG works well.
I live about 35 miles from Nashville and have a Channel Master Digital Advantage 60. I bought the single antenna input Televes preamp and it works great for my 75 foot quad shield RG6 coax run.
Ideas for handling signal changes over different seasons? Even from day to day, morning to evening, some channels toggle between fine/perfect and marginal just by a 5 point HDHR signal shift. The signals become too strong in winter, after the solar equinox and the leaves fall, so I put attenuators in line - 3, 6, 9, 10dB, as needed.. Then in the spring, I remove them as leaves return. No attenuators used now (August). The required gaim-modification changes every few weeks in autumn and spring. Have an RCA pre-amp that seems to be adding too much gain. Think it is 20dB gain. With it, we get about 100 subchannels - a few are TOO strong for the HDHRs causing pixilation even with 1 splitter. Without the pre-amp we get about 15 subchannels total, so there's no question a pre-amp is needed. I've searched for reasonably priced variable attenuators or pre-amps. Looks like you get what you pay for.. Perhaps a pre-amp with fixed 10-15dB gain would better fit? Channels are between 17 and 52 miles away. Anyway, how do you handle seasonal signal changes as a professional?
Today I did some testing of different configurations. Initially, 133 subchannels were listed on the HDHR "scan" interface, but many of those were "iffy". Was using a DB4e pointed at 155deg and a yagi pointed at 335deg combined then used the $20 RCA pre-amp for a 50ft run to HDHR Quad and HDHR4 network tuners. Many of the signals were too strong, resulting in pixelated images. Of course, some were too week and also had pixelzation. About 50 subchannels were interesting. Remember, the RCA has about 20dB of gain. Got a Channel Master 7776u Pre-amp (11 dB gain) and installed it instead of the RCA. Reran the channel scan and got only 33 subchannels. A weaker amp definitely matters. Thought it could be the combiner so removed the yagi pointing for just 2 channels and did straight connections to only 1 of the HDHR tuners, the Quad. Recanned and got 50 channels with nearly all of them nearly perfect, if not perfect. Of course, ABC and the 4 sub-channels on it are bad. CW, CBS, Fox, NBC are excellent. Ion is completely gone. The too-strong signals are now perfect. I use the HDHR tuning android app. It has Signal Strength, SNR Quality and Sym Quality, which seem related to "enough" signal, but doesn't work for too strong a signal. Basically, when the SS is 100, that's likely to be too strong. Really desire 99 for the SS and steady 100 for both the SNR and SQ numbers. Around here, most of the stations broadcast on RF 18-29. Perhaps I need two antenna setups with 2 different amplifiers? One for the strong signals and 1 for the weaker signals. My media center software, Jellyfin, can choose which channel to get from which tuner, so it is just a matter of having another cable run from the attic to where the HDHR tuners are located. ABC (RF32) is just so bad. A local station "MyTV" on RF25 is pretty bad too. RF25 is a rebroadcast set of subchannels for affiliated stations of NBC, I think. Maybe next week I'll give up and go back to the RCA amp setup with the combiner. I have 3 antennas available - one is a custom, DIY, DB4 that I used for years. The whisker length was sized for the Hi-VHF channels here and works really well. Bought the Antennas Direct DB4e with Hi-VHF antenna and it is a little better - definitely better for an outdoor install than my DYI 2x4 and copper wire setup. ;) Some of the bad channels have huge swings in SQ and SNR going from 100 on each to 50 and 0 from second to second. This is during a sunny day, light breeze (under 2 mph). I just don't understand how the signals could vary THAT widely?
Have a Winegard flatwave air on my home and it performs flawlessly, but I recently purchased the winegard rvw sensar IV and it is pathetic at best even at 17' old the ground and 10 miles closer to stations than my home. My question is whether I should replace the thin cheap feeling coax that came with the antenna or just try to but something better? Thanks.
Boston has low VHF, PBS channel 2.1, CBS 4.1, ABC channel 5.1, then Rhoad Island/New Bedford ABC is channel 6.1. We also have a lot of UHF channels ranging from 15, 24, 25, 36, 38, 44, 46, 56, 62, 64 and 68. I might check this one out as the RCA mini yagi is struggling to pull in PBS and CBS.
Actually, PBS is the only low VHF channel in Boston. CBS and ABC broadcast on the UHF band. Most TV stations don't broadcast on the RF channel that's shown on your TV. See video below: th-cam.com/video/uyGWtFm1q24/w-d-xo.html
How good are the antop dual control signal gain amplifier I'm planning on getting one soon already have a antop 14db signal gain booster amplifier does good but I need one stronger to bring the signal up more than what I'm getting now
We normally pick up a lot of stations now after storm there is no reception at all we are in the country 80 miles from Dallas 40 miles from Tyler texas
I have just an inside antenna that hangs on the wall ass high as possible, going to a roku TV that is almost 3 years old. I can not get any PBS channels & CBS is hit & miss. What do you feel is the best way to attract those channels. I live in the St.Louis Mo.area.
I purchased the Mohu Leaf Ultimate 65 Amplifier Indoor Antenna. Had to use a 25ft cable to the TV. Mohu came with it's own JOLT amplifier. Is there a better product for this antenna to give me a more signal boost? Let me know and thank you for your time.
I use the channel master titan 2 model CM-7777. It's been a very good performer, not exactly cheap as some but we'll worth the cost. I wouldn't advise using it though if you're close enough to TV stations. My guess is 30 miles or less away with little to no interference and you probably wouldn't need it, a lower powered one, or no amp at all and you'd probably be ok if your antenna is high enough in the air. I agree, you over power a signal and it's actually worse than no extra power at all. You'd think these manufacturers would put a db gain adjuster on these amps? I think some might have it?... I just don't recall any that does have one.
I am looking to cut the cord and have tried a couple different antenna options. Question and Delia I have is I want to have 1 antenna that can feed a signal to multiple (3) Tv's. What type of setup do I need to achieve this goal?
Tyler,. I have a Channel Master CM -2020 directional antenna mounted on a 30' telescoping pole. The pole is mounted about 30' from the entry point of the house, close to ground level. It then goes up to the attic and across the attic about about 25' to a two way distribution amplifier CM-3412 ultra mini distribution amp. Then output #1 about 20' to one TV, and output 2 about 30 feet to a second TV. About a month ago, the signal strength meter on the TV dropped all of the signal strengths from about 1/2 of the available channels from 3,4,or 5 bars down to one bar out of 5. The ones that were one bar, remained at one bar, or dropped off to zero bars. Should I try replacing the distribution amplifier, or the preamp? Or what do you recommend? Thanks for a great channel. Your videos have helped me get about 65 channels. I live about 1/2 way between San Antonio and Austin Texas in the Texas Hill Country. About 50 miles or more to most of the broadcast channels. The antenna is facing toward the S.A. towers, but receives pretty well from Austin off the back of the antenna. Thanks Tyler, great information!
I have a channel master vhf/uhf outdoor antenna that's mounted about 25 to 30ft in the air with a channel master rotator. I have it connected to 4 tvs using a 2way and 3 way splitter .( I used those splitter cause I just happen to have those on hand) I noticed that on 3 tvs I got 40 channels but on one I got less channels. What could be causing this .? Splitter issue or do I need a amplifier? Any help would greatly be appreciated.
I have a clear stream max-v antenna... Would a amplifier booster improve the picture clear? A lot of westerns I watch are too blurry to watch. Most are old westerns. Pleas reply, thanks...
Hi Tyler, I’ve just got an antenna to add a UHF from another area to the south, it’s a Wineguard 8 bow tie(bay), I’m in Mi. And I aiming for Toledo Ohio, should I use two preamps or just a booster to improve the reception?
My radio shack amplifier from 1987 finally died. The two models I tried have slightly stronger reception, but drop RF 26. I have an interesting puzzle to solve.
Did you try the amplifier below? It has automatic gain control and might work better than other models you've tried which usually have a fixed gain that can overload some channels. amzn.to/3A7WHSH
the Televes 560383 Single Input Antenna Preamp model doesnt show a preamp to put on at to antenna which i will need since my antenna is at least 100 ft away. (connect on a tree 25 ft away from house 70 ft up. am i missing some thing?
I live at the bottom of a very steep hill, with most of the transmitter towers located in back on me. I’m considering putting an antenna at the top of the hill. This would require at least 500 foot cable run. What do you recommend regarding cable type and preamplifier?
@@AntennaMan add me to that list. First one failed in about 30 days. Cycling its power would bring it back for a while but eventually just failed completely. They sent me another one and going for about 2 years now. My line is about 75 foot.
I just ordered the low and high gain pre amp from channel master, the $89 one. I installed it outside yesterday, worked perfectly and boosted channels from 33 to 48. This evening, however, something seems to have happened without me touching anything. There is no light when the amp is on low setting, and the red light on high setting is barely on, and flickers a little bit. The only thing I can think of is the crazy wind and rain storm that just happened. Should I have installed the amp inside, instead? I have an outdoor antenna, so I thought it was supposed to be as close to the antenna as possible.
Sounds like you may have a bad coax cable. A junk coax cable won't carry the right voltage needed to power the preamp. You can find a list of recommended coax cables below: www.amazon.com/shop/antennaman/list/4RBGOO8SD5CC
Hello Tyler, seems antenna's I have tried I still get pixlation. Currently purchased a Clearstream 2 and using indoors on 8 feet of RG6. I am right between 2 highways and vehicles make it worse, any ideas? Thanks
MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY NEW YR 2023 2024 considering dual televees two way tv splitter you mention difficulties holding onto CW 11 WPIX sub channels... 9 stories high 60 miles away nyc previous antenna suggested by you Dab televees uhf vhf antenna works but maybe due to shared vhf uhf access may cause my issues curiosity question maybe you can respond to this ATC uses same vhf signals could they cause interferences ch s 7 -13 ?... hmmm anyfilter out there that can elimibate this idea .. please research respond when able
I've been running the Channel Master Medium Gain pre-amp for about 10 years now. I have a fairly long coax run (75 ft.) from the antenna to my main distribution point which has an 8-port distribution amp that feeds all the separate coax drops. Both those amps are powered off solar, so totally off-grid: th-cam.com/video/PAxID-Wj8Ig/w-d-xo.html
What is opinion on a Omni directional RV antenna and booster....I'm currently using a Wingard 360 mounted flat on the roof of RV...It does not work very well at all. I'm hoping to find a better system. Thanks
As in a lot of things "it depends" is a good answer. If the transmitters are nearby and scattered around you, the omni directional antenna is a good idea. If they are all in one direction, pointing a directional antenna at them is better. Generally, the higher you can mount the antenna the better.
This wouldn't work in an older RV would it where there is no access to the antenna cable near the antenna. There is only access where it comes out of the wall in the media center.
Tyler I have a problem with my rv antenna (no signal). It worked fine and then one day it would not work at all. I confirmed that I had 12 volts from the power booster to the antenna. I replaced the power booster and it started working. I thought the problem was solved until I tried to use it again and it would not pickup a channel as before. So I replaced the antenna still didn’t work. I temporarily hooked up a regular residential style antenna on the roof bypassing the booster going straight into the tv and it worked fine. I replaced Omni directional antenna, replaced power booster, confirmed proper voltage and still nothing. I really need someone smarter than me to help locate the problem?
QUESTION; Tyler, I need a new antenna amplifier, and due to a number of circumstances, it can only be mounted near the tv, not up on the pole near the antenna. I like the Channel Master Adjustable gain amp, but not sure if I need med, high, dual or pro gain. I have used cheap amps til now. Time for a $90 bad boy. Other stats... I'm near an airport and get a lot of airplane interference. I'm about 18 miles from Providence, RI towers and 45 miles from Boston towers running a 2007 Terrestrial Digital antenna. Coax run is about 35 feet of cheap coax. The cheap amps have always worked even tho they're in the wrong location. Any help is appreciated.
Why wouldn't you be able to put the amplifier near the antenna? Keep in mind there's a separate power inserter that comes with all of these preamps that will send power through the coax cable so you don't have to send power up to where the antenna is located.
Good morning.. I have a Clearstream 4 TV Antenna, 70+ Mile Range, UHF, Multi-Directional antenna. I didnt realize the VHF wasnt part of the antenna until I had purchased it.. I live in an area with poor signal reception anyway and had pretty low expectations from the start. I was able to get around 15 channels but sometimes not very well.. Couple questions, (1)I am only using 40ft(approx) of RG6 cable so distance isnt the problem, would a booster make any difference in your opinion and (2)can I add a VHF antenna to the antenna I have or would it lessen the already low signal quality? Thank
I can't help without running a reception record at your location to see what the frequencies are like. If you're interested, sign up for my antenna recommendation service below: www.antennamanpa.com/antenna-recommendations.html
Amplifiers usually don't do anything for indoor antennas. If some channels aren't picked up reliably, you will need to either adjust the antenna or replace it with a better model. Most indoor antennas do not have VHF elements needed for 6ABC in Philadelphia. You can find a list of recommended antennas or sign up for an antenna recommendation from me below: www.antennamanpa.com/antenna-recommendations.html
I just got the televes single input model 560383 pre amp with the power distribution plug. I followed the directions and have the one line going to the pre amp from the antenna and the other going to the f connector/power distributor where it branches out to the tv. I turned the switch on and I don’t get a green light. If I hook up a small amplifier (no included in kit) with a coax cable and connect that to the pre amp then I get a green light. Can someone please tell me what the hell I’m doing wrong? 😂
The amplifier on antenna is getting damaged In lightening storms we have our antenna up 40 feet can we just attach amp inside this is 3 Rd time hard to get it down and back up I'm 65 years old
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I hope you do want to power splitter soon. I read them my living room and when I added the second TV I'm lost channels period when I unplugged the living room one the reception in my bedroom went back to normal. And yes I have RG6 cable on both sets
How and where do I hook the Televes single into my outdoor antenna.
This man knows what he is talking about. He helped me select the equipment and proper installation of it,, that allowed us to go from 1 available TV channel,, to 18 channels!! My country get away is the best now! Thanks Tyler, if you ever get to Southeast Texas... I 'll have a steak on the grill and ice cold beer waiting for you.
The small Televes antenna with a built-in preamp I got for my mother works great. She lives on top of a hill and the TV towers are 40 miles away and the reception is awesome. She had been using one of the flat indoor pieces of junk for years until we had her roof replaced which included a metallic underlayment that killed the reception. She is very happy with her new antenna and getting more channels now. Thanks Tyler.
My folks live on the edge of their OTA market. Their antenna worked fine until stations started migrating to ATSC 3.0. Saw your videos on ATSC 3.0 and preamps. Installed a Televes 560383 single input. Totally worth it. They get all the original channels now, and even a few from a neighboring market. Thanks for the info and posting your videos!
Just installed the $85 Televes pre amp and finally success bringing Philly channels in for my Bethlehem zip code 18017! After trying three differential antenna going bigger each time and limited success, so many trips up & down the ladder. Moved here 4 years ago and finally I can watch channels 3-6-10, NBC, ABC, CBS, 17, FOX, 29. Finally with help of Antenna Man I no longer can blame the nearby mountain for casting for a twilight zone when it came to receiving TV reception. 😊❤
I had a flat square window antenna that never really worked, so after hearing you educate about the horizontal antenna element to get VHF channels, I folded a 2.5 ft. sheet of tinfoil into a narrow stick and taped across the back of the cheap antenna. Now I get ALL the channels including CBS-2 in Chicago which had always been impossible. I live in 3rd flr apt 18 mi from (and with window facing) the broadcast tower downtown. Thanks Antenna Man - my cable bill dropped from $125 to $25 for internet only (Roku)
I just tried that based upon you recommendation. A stick wrapped in tinfoil taped to the back. HUGE improvement! Thanks!
I bought the Channel Master dual gain model a couple of years ago and it has been a solid build. I believe I’m running it on the high gain and haven’t had any issues. The only down side (if there is one) is that it tends to be harder to purchase because even when I bought it was frequently out of stock.
An amp totally overwhelmed my receiver. More does not always mean better. Thank you for doing this video.
I got the dual Televes pre-amp and gotta say I love it. To avoid interference from both antenna I made sure they are separated by 5' on the pole with exactly same cable length from the pre-amp to both antenna. And making sure the lower antenna on the pole points to the closest market.
Thanks for sharing your experience with the Televes preamp!
I've always found spacing the antennas 5 ft apart causes issues as I keep the close as possible, but do make sure the coax is the same length running to the combiner from both antennas. Also found using one transformer helps.
@@jamesm568 I do use a single transformer. What height distance would you suggest?
@@jamesm568 also keep in mind I do aim at two very different market, being close to the USA/Canada border I have one antenna pointing to Canadian market and one pointing to USA market both broadcasting very different channel and no RF frequency overlap.
@@fuijika That all depends on your location. Keeping my two antennas no more than a foot apart keeps them from being out of phase.
Televes preamps have automatic gain control. This feature sets it apart from the rest. It won't kill strong signals to get weak ones. I have one on a High VHF antenna and one on a separate UHF antenna. Work perfectly.
I just got the televes single input model 560383 pre amp with the power distribution plug. I followed the directions and have the one line going to the pre amp from the antenna and the other going to the f connector/power distributor where it branches out to the tv. I turned the switch on and I don’t get a green light. If I hook up a small amplifier (no included in kit) with a coax cable and connect that to the pre amp then I get a green light. Can someone please tell me what the hell I’m doing wrong? 😂
Live abut 8 miles from the towers-preamp causes distortion (in my case)-I use a distribution amp to feed my Tivo,HD Homerun and TV. As always,you have a very informative video.
I have a longrange Telves antenna & the Telves preamp shown. Routinely receive signals from 87 miles with exact pin point alignment on a 20 foot pole which is the tallest allowed here. Best is that there are also within 30 & 40 miles strong signals which are not effected.
I highly recommend Telves antenna's which are well manufactured & the Telves pre-amp. I live in a flat area huge amount of trees & with the earth curvature receiving these signals during the afternoon was once an impossible dream but since installation normal with only very occasional weather caused outages from the weakest stations.
I've been using the Channel Master Amplify since 2017 and its been great on low it adds just enough gain to get all the channels in my area. I'm about 46-48 miles west of Phily in the NJ Pine Barrens with lots of tall pine trees.
Did the low gain setting work better than the high gain setting? That's what I found in my situation.
@@AntennaMan I'm currently on the high gain setting. I had some drop out and pixelation on the VHF channels on low. After setting it to high gain all 60 channels come in perfect with no drop out regardless of time and day or weather. With the low setting we only brought in 45 channels.
I recently replaced my 40 year old giant Channel Master Ch 2-69 antenna with the two best UHF and Hi band VHF antennas I could find. I also purchased the latest Kitz Technologies dual input preamp and am very satisfied with the setup. Kitz is a small company probably catering to TV DXers but their prices are competitive. The noise figure of the preamp is very low (good). Your viewers should know of this choice too.
LOVE Kitztech. Great performance. I'm taking down my Televes to put up my old Kitztech again.
Bought a Kitz Technologies - KT-200 a little over a year ago. It works great. Very high quality amp made in the USA.
If I decide to run a dual antenna set-up (UHF and Hi-VHF antenna) I'll buy the newer KT-700 dual input amp like you bought.
spot on. I have the Televes pre-amp running the antenna to my den TV, and the RCA running to the Flex 4K in the upstairs guest room. both are working great. I always judged my pre-amps by how many channels they would pull in connected to an antenna off my deck mounted on a PVC pipe. The Televez won hands down. I liked Antenna Direct's JUICE pre-amp as well. During my trials, I ended up dropping it one time too many and it quit working. LOL.....
I added the RCA one you mentioned first to my GE Pro Yagi Directional antenna setup. I didn't even take the antenna down to add it and instead spliced it in about 15-20 feet down from the antenna and I picked up 3 more channels one of them being the Movies! channel which is sweet. I also don't have as many issues with other channels. I will most likely move it to be closer to the antenna this spring when it's nice and warm if I feel like I need to.
Just finished installing the Televes Single Input Preamp for my neighbor. Using a Antennas Direct ClearStream 4V TV Antenna she is now receiving 73 channels. Increase of 23 channels.
I have a junk antenna pre-amp, and I’m thinking of replacing it. Great video, Tyler!
As someone who installed cable for 15 years Tyler really know his stuff. I lived near a mountain in Arizona a lot people in this one particular community would complain about poor signal for this one local channel and yet the antenna for this channel was less than 1/2 a mile away. The reason the signal was bad in this community was similar to someone with a microphone standing to close to the speaker causing feed back.. TV signal does the same thing. And just so you know WIFi can do the same also. So buy adding a TV amplifier can also cause problems. Think about what happens when you crank up the Amp when your listening to Led Zeppelin and Robert Plant’s voice in now causing your ears to bleed even more than they were before. The signal distorts and doesn’t improve the sound. Same applies to TV and wifi signal. 😂 Hope this analogy is appreciated. Thanks for all you do Tyler I have learn’t an incredible amount from your channel.
Thanks Tyler. Stay warm buddy!
0:20 - Who just skips through ? Dude drops knowledge. Watch it all !
TH-cam analytics shows me that bowers stop watching about halfway thru most of my videos
@@AntennaMan that’s just when you get to explaining everything 🙄
Return viewers! , they’ll see why not everything works for everyone if they watch everything!
I'm so glad you where up front in what an amp won't do. Thank you for that.
6:11 I installed a Winegard LNA-200 yesterday and UT was the right choice because I mixed a Channel Master all-channel TV antenna with a Yagi FM antenna to get 89.9 WDAV, using one coax to the inside. I was pleased with the results as I was able to get all the local channels plus 50 FM
I and a client have tested and found that the very low cost GE preamp is good. In my client’s situation he had both a strong station and a week one and after trying both Winegard and Channel Master the GE was the one that worked for him.
I used to think that preamplifiers were only for compensating for cable and splitter signal loss but after testing the unique auto-gain adjusting Televes single-input preamp with a small Stellar Labs combination antenna and a short cable the difference in the antenna’s performance was so dramatic that I would not just think of it for compensating for signal loss.
4 tvs running strong with the GE amp and antenna. Jus hooked it up yesterday with great results ☺️
Is the GE pre amp better than the cheap RCA pre amp?
I suspect it is. @@KevinBradley-l6q
Thanks A.M.
You helped me select an aerial a few years back. Its been great as i Pointed it directly at the station antenna i watch the most. Other channels come in fine, but have always had pixelation on a few channels we view on occasion (SUN & MNF).
I'm hoping this pre amp will fix the issue.
Another reason to amplify is if you intend to use a splitter to feed multiple TVs/DVRs. The common 2:1 splitter costs you about 3dB[1] of gain. You will often want to run a feed to the living room and one to a bedroom or something. From there, in the living room, there may be an additional split to feed a DVR along with the TV set.
[1] the dB unit of gain is not a linear unit of measure. 3dB means the power got doubled. 6dB means the factor is 4 and 9 dB means a factor of 8. If you hook two splitters in series you get 3dB+3dB=6dB of signal loss AKA a factor of 4 on the power.
Kkensmith true but that amplifier doesn't need to be outside at the antenna.
@@larsord9139 An amplifier in the antenna means that when the amplifier fails, the whole antenna is junk. Antennas basically never fail. The same can't be said for amplifiers and this goes double when stuff is out in the weather.
Where do you install the splitter? Before or after the power inserted?
@@debbannon354 The power inserter is on the line going to the antenna and amplifier. The "TV" output of the inserter goes to the splitter.
To those who are interested, he said antenna 32 times in this video
Very important information love this channel
after a a prior model channel master got corroded and quit in less than two years, i disconnected it and connected the cables to each other to bypass the booster box on the aerial mast for a while. i think with the channel master i only got about 40 channels on a good day (in tampa bay area). after watching this vid i got that RCA booster and i now have over 70 channels clear as a bell. i had no idea there were this many channels available.
Yes we can over amplify a signal. I removed a unused cord from a signal splitter. The signal improved. Looks great 👍🏻. Thanks 😊 again Antenna Man.
I have a Winegard 8700 preamp ! Thanks for info ! 👍
I have a very old Radio shack preamp it has worked great for over 20 years. I thought about upgrading it but decided to save the money.
I made that mistake years ago with the old RadioShack preamps always thinking higher gain is better. I was wondering why the picture was wavy on certain channels back in the analog days. The answer back then was signal attenuators you could install inline just before the coax went into the TV. You could turn back the gain up to 20db. How nice it would have been to have a preamp with automatic gain adjustment.
Almost 20 years ago I bought a Channel Master model 4221 4-bay UHF antenna and a Channel Master cheap preamp model that had built-in 300ohm to 75ohm balun. I believe that preamp gets about 15dB or so gain which is plenty for my setup with just under 100feet RG6 coax from the antenna in the back of the house to my garage where I have a 4way splitter and the preamp power supply. The splitter feeds the existing RG59 coax lines inside the house walls to 4 rooms, that was originally used for years with cable TV, but now after switching to cable internet only I use that instead for the split antenna signal to three TVs internal digital tuner and also to my PC which has a wintv tuner card. I figure the loss of the outdoor RG6 coax cable and 4 way splitter plus shorter runs of the indoor old RG59 cable is about or under the 15dB gain of the preamp so I get good signal strength and SNR at the TVs. Also my old 4221 antenna is able to receive the two high VHF signals in my area (channel 8 and 10) fairly well even with one hill that causes those VHF signals to have to bounce over it, compared to the UHF signals in my area that are further away but have line of sight so they come in stronger. My VHF channels I get 28-30dB SNR and the UHF channels I get 33+dB SNR and no dropouts or other issues. Luckily my house is at the top of a hill and near the highest elevation in my area about 800ft above sea level. Other houses nearby are way down the hill and would probably have very poor reception compared to mine. Because of my house's high elevation I've found I don't need a tall mast above the house, I get great signal with the low profile 4-bay UHF antenna mounted stealthily under the eaves of my house in the back using a Channel Master universal antenna mount that has a 44" mast included that I have mounted up-side down. In my area of north San Diego county, the two VHF channels come from slightly west of south while all the local UHF channels come from south east so I have almost 60degrees between those two TV broadcast locations. The 4-bay UHF antenna handles that wide coverage well without a rotor!
Televes is the preamp professional installers prefere to use here in Costa Rica for areas with weak signals. Lots of mountains here!
I've never, never placed any confidence is a pre amp. I believe I'm with you inorder to get the antenna going with as close to 30 db gain, as possible. Sorry I learned this from ham and CB radios. I became easily able to connect to people thousands of miles away and even with skip across to Sidney. Very amazing to me all with a standard, or so I say, antenna.
I was playing with antennas for my crystal am radio set. And the world became bigger.
Gee I made improvements from creating a good ground plain.
What ever you are right on for all your recommendations. I should not say how I improve all my stationary CB & FM, & even marine. You keep up the good work.
That cheap one you mention has worked well for over 3 years at our homestead. Guess we lucked out
I've watched a number of your videos and they are very informative. At home I mostly watch cable TV but I do have an OTA for back up when cable goes out. I also have a travel trailer that came with an OTA antenna and amplifier. I travel a lot up and down the east coast. What I have found out is that I get mostly the same content no matter where I travel. I usually get the locals, but get a lot and I me a lot of infomercials, Spanish speaking channels and duplicates, which I assume are both HD and non HD of the same channel. It doesn't matter how good an antenna works if the content your receiving is bad. Out of the 30 to 40 some channels I'll get, only one or two have something I want to watch. THIS, COZI, GRIT, Comet, LAFF, Newsy, QVC and HSN seem to be OTA everywhere. I don't see me giving up cable in the near future.
I ran an insane amount of cheap cable to an outside antenna and got 15 channels. I got a high quality cable that's 6 ft to a mohu w/ their booster in a corner wall & didn't think it would work. I can get sometimes get 61 channels or as low as 29 upon rescan. I never thought cable meant so much.
The antenna booster I use on my RCA indoor antennas work fairly well. I get many channels and the signals are pretty strong most of the time. I don't really have nothing to complain about.
As a retired Navy TV repair man I can attest to much of what he said. I have a neighbor that has property in Palm Coast FL. He is not at this property enough to pay for cable. Sadly the closest TV signal is out of Daytona. He purchased an attic antenna and amplifier and is able to get 5 channels. I would like to get information on an antenna system that can bring on WiFi sources from open Wi-Fi networks. He is a Comcast customer and should be allowed to utilize one of Comcast's open Wi-Fi hotspot. He could then use that system with a streaming player for TV programming. I find it unacceptable that there are TV antenna's that can pick up signals 40 plus miles away but a open Wi-Fi connection that is 3 miles away is impossible to get. :(
Have that model you showed and never had a major issue. Even used whatever splitter and cable was left from the previous TV service into the house. Only issue was the crappy cable it came with dry rotting over the years and cracking.
My antique Terk HDTVa indoor antenna, combined with a 15dB NeXxtech single port RF amplifier, gets me up to 50 channels here in Toronto Ontario Canada. Many are transmitted from New York. Without the amplifier, I only get a few local channels.
*ANTENNA MAN*
Hmm -- Sounds like a superhero!
Guess he kinda is a superhero to those of us who can't afford cable/satellite services. I appreciate ur videos cuz ur honest and non-bias toward products. I trust ur advice and recommendations. Grear job, my friend. 😉👍
Pre-amp, my best experience is with a Kitztech 200 Coax by far.
I live in Palm Bay in east central Florida most of the antenna i use works pretty good. My home made antenna works better than some of the ones i bought I use one of those paper type in my living room works fine about eight feet off the floor one thing i can say sometimes i get as much over thirty channels.
For longer runs, you might try RG11. More expensive, but has less loss at the higher channels (UHF).
RG11 is good for runs over 100 feet but it's just a pain to work with cause of how stuff it is and the need for bigger strippers and compression tools
That’s all I use even for short cables.
@@RarestAce Agree, but one thing about RG11, is you can bury it and never worry about it. It is tough as nails. Depending on what type of RG11 you get too. Some is more flexible than others.
@@patrickmartin4996 That is very true. I honestly was considering going RG11 for my antenna setup just from the antenna itself down to my distribution system. But with the cost of it plus having to get the rg11 tools and connectors sadly put my project over budget. I went with a very high quality quad shield rg6 and the system has preformed beautifully
@@RarestAce I ran RG11 out to the Antennas Direct 91XG, at about 65 feet. I know it was over kill, but I had some and used it. It had connectors already on it, so I did not have to deal with that. It was a hair short, so I added a barrel to it and completed the run to the amp with quad shield RG6. I really doubt the RG11 made any difference, as I am 12.2 miles from our translators, Line of Sight. They run in power from 6200 watts to 548 watts and they all come in well. A couple of them, so not work well with indoor antennas, and the 91XG works well.
I live about 35 miles from Nashville and have a Channel Master Digital Advantage 60. I bought the single antenna input Televes preamp and it works great for my 75 foot quad shield RG6 coax run.
Ideas for handling signal changes over different seasons? Even from day to day, morning to evening, some channels toggle between fine/perfect and marginal just by a 5 point HDHR signal shift. The signals become too strong in winter, after the solar equinox and the leaves fall, so I put attenuators in line - 3, 6, 9, 10dB, as needed.. Then in the spring, I remove them as leaves return. No attenuators used now (August). The required gaim-modification changes every few weeks in autumn and spring.
Have an RCA pre-amp that seems to be adding too much gain. Think it is 20dB gain. With it, we get about 100 subchannels - a few are TOO strong for the HDHRs causing pixilation even with 1 splitter. Without the pre-amp we get about 15 subchannels total, so there's no question a pre-amp is needed.
I've searched for reasonably priced variable attenuators or pre-amps. Looks like you get what you pay for.. Perhaps a pre-amp with fixed 10-15dB gain would better fit? Channels are between 17 and 52 miles away.
Anyway, how do you handle seasonal signal changes as a professional?
Today I did some testing of different configurations. Initially, 133 subchannels were listed on the HDHR "scan" interface, but many of those were "iffy". Was using a DB4e pointed at 155deg and a yagi pointed at 335deg combined then used the $20 RCA pre-amp for a 50ft run to HDHR Quad and HDHR4 network tuners. Many of the signals were too strong, resulting in pixelated images. Of course, some were too week and also had pixelzation. About 50 subchannels were interesting. Remember, the RCA has about 20dB of gain.
Got a Channel Master 7776u Pre-amp (11 dB gain) and installed it instead of the RCA. Reran the channel scan and got only 33 subchannels. A weaker amp definitely matters.
Thought it could be the combiner so removed the yagi pointing for just 2 channels and did straight connections to only 1 of the HDHR tuners, the Quad. Recanned and got 50 channels with nearly all of them nearly perfect, if not perfect. Of course, ABC and the 4 sub-channels on it are bad. CW, CBS, Fox, NBC are excellent. Ion is completely gone. The too-strong signals are now perfect.
I use the HDHR tuning android app. It has Signal Strength, SNR Quality and Sym Quality, which seem related to "enough" signal, but doesn't work for too strong a signal. Basically, when the SS is 100, that's likely to be too strong. Really desire 99 for the SS and steady 100 for both the SNR and SQ numbers.
Around here, most of the stations broadcast on RF 18-29.
Perhaps I need two antenna setups with 2 different amplifiers? One for the strong signals and 1 for the weaker signals. My media center software, Jellyfin, can choose which channel to get from which tuner, so it is just a matter of having another cable run from the attic to where the HDHR tuners are located. ABC (RF32) is just so bad. A local station "MyTV" on RF25 is pretty bad too. RF25 is a rebroadcast set of subchannels for affiliated stations of NBC, I think. Maybe next week I'll give up and go back to the RCA amp setup with the combiner. I have 3 antennas available - one is a custom, DIY, DB4 that I used for years. The whisker length was sized for the Hi-VHF channels here and works really well. Bought the Antennas Direct DB4e with Hi-VHF antenna and it is a little better - definitely better for an outdoor install than my DYI 2x4 and copper wire setup. ;)
Some of the bad channels have huge swings in SQ and SNR going from 100 on each to 50 and 0 from second to second. This is during a sunny day, light breeze (under 2 mph). I just don't understand how the signals could vary THAT widely?
Have a Winegard flatwave air on my home and it performs flawlessly, but I recently purchased the winegard rvw sensar IV and it is pathetic at best even at 17' old the ground and 10 miles closer to stations than my home.
My question is whether I should replace the thin cheap feeling coax that came with the antenna or just try to but something better?
Thanks.
Boston has low VHF, PBS channel 2.1, CBS 4.1, ABC channel 5.1, then Rhoad Island/New Bedford ABC is channel 6.1. We also have a lot of UHF channels ranging from 15, 24, 25, 36, 38, 44, 46, 56, 62, 64 and 68. I might check this one out as the RCA mini yagi is struggling to pull in PBS and CBS.
Actually, PBS is the only low VHF channel in Boston. CBS and ABC broadcast on the UHF band. Most TV stations don't broadcast on the RF channel that's shown on your TV. See video below: th-cam.com/video/uyGWtFm1q24/w-d-xo.html
How good are the antop dual control signal gain amplifier I'm planning on getting one soon already have a antop 14db signal gain booster amplifier does good but I need one stronger to bring the signal up more than what I'm getting now
We normally pick up a lot of stations now after storm there is no reception at all we are in the country 80 miles from Dallas 40 miles from Tyler texas
I have just an inside antenna that hangs on the wall ass high as possible, going to a roku TV that is almost 3 years old. I can not get any PBS channels & CBS is hit & miss. What do you feel is the best way to attract those channels. I live in the St.Louis Mo.area.
I purchased the Mohu Leaf Ultimate 65 Amplifier Indoor Antenna. Had to use a 25ft cable to the TV. Mohu came with it's own JOLT amplifier. Is there a better product for this antenna to give me a more signal boost? Let me know and thank you for your time.
I use nothing but channel Master preamps. Now that preamp that can take two antennas caught my eye though.
I use the channel master titan 2 model CM-7777. It's been a very good performer, not exactly cheap as some but we'll worth the cost. I wouldn't advise using it though if you're close enough to TV stations. My guess is 30 miles or less away with little to no interference and you probably wouldn't need it, a lower powered one, or no amp at all and you'd probably be ok if your antenna is high enough in the air. I agree, you over power a signal and it's actually worse than no extra power at all. You'd think these manufacturers would put a db gain adjuster on these amps? I think some might have it?... I just don't recall any that does have one.
I am looking to cut the cord and have tried a couple different antenna options. Question and Delia I have is I want to have 1 antenna that can feed a signal to multiple (3) Tv's. What type of setup do I need to achieve this goal?
Tyler,. I have a Channel Master CM -2020 directional antenna mounted on a 30' telescoping pole. The pole is mounted about 30' from the entry point of the house, close to ground level. It then goes up to the attic and across the attic about about 25' to a two way distribution amplifier CM-3412 ultra mini distribution amp. Then output #1 about 20' to one TV, and output 2 about 30 feet to a second TV.
About a month ago, the signal strength meter on the TV dropped all of the signal strengths from about 1/2 of the available channels from 3,4,or 5 bars down to one bar out of 5.
The ones that were one bar, remained at one bar, or dropped off to zero bars.
Should I try replacing the distribution amplifier, or the preamp? Or what do you recommend?
Thanks for a great channel. Your videos have helped me get about 65 channels. I live about 1/2 way between San Antonio and Austin Texas in the Texas Hill Country. About 50 miles or more to most of the broadcast channels. The antenna is facing toward the S.A. towers, but receives pretty well from Austin off the back of the antenna.
Thanks Tyler, great information!
Probably the most important specification for an antenna preamp is the noise figure. This is the first thing I consider.
I have a channel master vhf/uhf outdoor antenna that's mounted about 25 to 30ft in the air with a channel master rotator. I have it connected to 4 tvs using a 2way and 3 way splitter .( I used those splitter cause I just happen to have those on hand) I noticed that on 3 tvs I got 40 channels but on one I got less channels. What could be causing this .? Splitter issue or do I need a amplifier? Any help would greatly be appreciated.
I have a clear stream max-v antenna... Would a amplifier booster improve the picture clear? A lot of westerns I watch are too blurry to watch. Most are old westerns. Pleas reply, thanks...
I have 4 TV's on my antenna. Do you have a video for that? Only the two closest to the antenna give good signals.
Can you install the pre amp and power source in an outdoor rated box?
Hi Tyler, I’ve just got an antenna to add a UHF from another area to the south, it’s a Wineguard 8 bow tie(bay), I’m in Mi. And I aiming for Toledo Ohio, should I use two preamps or just a booster to improve the reception?
My radio shack amplifier from 1987 finally died. The two models I tried have slightly stronger reception, but drop RF 26. I have an interesting puzzle to solve.
Did you try the amplifier below? It has automatic gain control and might work better than other models you've tried which usually have a fixed gain that can overload some channels. amzn.to/3A7WHSH
Do in the attic antennas work?
The Televes preamp that you recommend, what type of guarantee comes with unit Antenna Man ????? Thanks
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the Televes 560383 Single Input Antenna Preamp model doesnt show a preamp to put on at to antenna which i will need since my antenna is at least 100 ft away. (connect on a tree 25 ft away from house 70 ft up. am i missing some thing?
Good video and information thanks.
Thanks for the video information
at end my rope centurylink, did you say for price you can fix please let me know how can pay for help
I live at the bottom of a very steep hill, with most of the transmitter towers located in back on me. I’m considering putting an antenna at the top of the hill. This would require at least 500 foot cable run. What do you recommend regarding cable type and preamplifier?
I have a bad signal with a digital indoor aerial I have two of them is there any way of making signal stronger please
Thank you for a very good explanation
I have GE multimedia drop amplifier that i bought from radioshack. Can this be used to amplify my TV antenna? It can't be exposed to rain.
what about the Winegard LNA-200 Boost amp. That is what I use and it seems fine
That wasn't mentioned because I received several reports that it failed over time.
@@AntennaMan add me to that list. First one failed in about 30 days. Cycling its power would bring it back for a while but eventually just failed completely. They sent me another one and going for about 2 years now. My line is about 75 foot.
Lna200 is now a disappointing amp. Cheap usb power inserter. Avoid it.
Do I leave the on/off switch in the off position on the Televes 560383 Antenna Preamp Amplifier/Combiner if I’m just using one antenna?
I just ordered the low and high gain pre amp from channel master, the $89 one. I installed it outside yesterday, worked perfectly and boosted channels from 33 to 48. This evening, however, something seems to have happened without me touching anything.
There is no light when the amp is on low setting, and the red light on high setting is barely on, and flickers a little bit. The only thing I can think of is the crazy wind and rain storm that just happened. Should I have installed the amp inside, instead? I have an outdoor antenna, so I thought it was supposed to be as close to the antenna as possible.
Now it's back on... again, I have not touched the amp at all except to change the gain settings. Can anyone explain this random occurrence?
Sounds like you may have a bad coax cable. A junk coax cable won't carry the right voltage needed to power the preamp. You can find a list of recommended coax cables below: www.amazon.com/shop/antennaman/list/4RBGOO8SD5CC
Can you do a test on the telva in action sir
Hello Tyler, seems antenna's I have tried I still get pixlation. Currently purchased a Clearstream 2 and using indoors on 8 feet of RG6. I am right between 2 highways and vehicles make it worse, any ideas? Thanks
What is the difference between having two antennas hooked together and having a 8 directional bay
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considering dual televees two way tv splitter you mention difficulties holding onto CW 11 WPIX sub channels...
9 stories high 60 miles away nyc
previous antenna suggested by you Dab televees
uhf vhf antenna works but maybe due to shared
vhf uhf access may cause my issues
curiosity question maybe you can respond to this ATC uses same vhf signals could they cause interferences ch s 7 -13 ?... hmmm
anyfilter out there that can elimibate this idea ..
please research respond when able
I've been running the Channel Master Medium Gain pre-amp for about 10 years now. I have a fairly long coax run (75 ft.) from the antenna to my main distribution point which has an 8-port distribution amp that feeds all the separate coax drops. Both those amps are powered off solar, so totally off-grid:
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What is opinion on a Omni directional RV antenna and booster....I'm currently using a Wingard 360 mounted flat on the roof of RV...It does not work very well at all. I'm hoping to find a better system. Thanks
As in a lot of things "it depends" is a good answer. If the transmitters are nearby and scattered around you, the omni directional antenna is a good idea. If they are all in one direction, pointing a directional antenna at them is better. Generally, the higher you can mount the antenna the better.
This wouldn't work in an older RV would it where there is no access to the antenna cable near the antenna.
There is only access where it comes out of the wall in the media center.
Tyler
I have a problem with my rv antenna (no signal). It worked fine and then one day it would not work at all. I confirmed that I had 12 volts from the power booster to the antenna. I replaced the power booster and it started working. I thought the problem was solved until I tried to use it again and it would not pickup a channel as before. So I replaced the antenna still didn’t work. I temporarily hooked up a regular residential style antenna on the roof bypassing the booster going straight into the tv and it worked fine.
I replaced Omni directional antenna, replaced power booster, confirmed proper voltage and still nothing. I really need someone smarter than me to help locate the problem?
Does the Televes preamp burn out after a year or 2? It seems to have dropped many channels all of a sudden.
Which works best for a portable tailgater satellite ?
What's the best amplifier for me in my area that would help me get more channels
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QUESTION; Tyler, I need a new antenna amplifier, and due to a number of circumstances, it can only be mounted near the tv, not up on the pole near the antenna. I like the Channel Master Adjustable gain amp, but not sure if I need med, high, dual or pro gain. I have used cheap amps til now. Time for a $90 bad boy. Other stats... I'm near an airport and get a lot of airplane interference. I'm about 18 miles from Providence, RI towers and 45 miles from Boston towers running a 2007 Terrestrial Digital antenna. Coax run is about 35 feet of cheap coax. The cheap amps have always worked even tho they're in the wrong location. Any help is appreciated.
Why wouldn't you be able to put the amplifier near the antenna? Keep in mind there's a separate power inserter that comes with all of these preamps that will send power through the coax cable so you don't have to send power up to where the antenna is located.
That CM 7777V3 is out of stock everywhere or id buy one.
Good morning.. I have a Clearstream 4 TV Antenna, 70+ Mile Range, UHF, Multi-Directional antenna. I didnt realize the VHF wasnt part of the antenna until I had purchased it.. I live in an area with poor signal reception anyway and had pretty low expectations from the start. I was able to get around 15 channels but sometimes not very well.. Couple questions, (1)I am only using 40ft(approx) of RG6 cable so distance isnt the problem, would a booster make any difference in your opinion and (2)can I add a VHF antenna to the antenna I have or would it lessen the already low signal quality?
Thank
I can't help without running a reception record at your location to see what the frequencies are like. If you're interested, sign up for my antenna recommendation service below: www.antennamanpa.com/antenna-recommendations.html
Cool video, what type of amplifier can I get for an indoor antenna? Or what is a good indoor antenna? I live in Philly suburbs, thx
Amplifiers usually don't do anything for indoor antennas. If some channels aren't picked up reliably, you will need to either adjust the antenna or replace it with a better model. Most indoor antennas do not have VHF elements needed for 6ABC in Philadelphia. You can find a list of recommended antennas or sign up for an antenna recommendation from me below: www.antennamanpa.com/antenna-recommendations.html
I just got the televes single input model 560383 pre amp with the power distribution plug. I followed the directions and have the one line going to the pre amp from the antenna and the other going to the f connector/power distributor where it branches out to the tv. I turned the switch on and I don’t get a green light. If I hook up a small amplifier (no included in kit) with a coax cable and connect that to the pre amp then I get a green light. Can someone please tell me what the hell I’m doing wrong? 😂
I have the Televes Boss antenna that came the indoor amp. Is there a need to add an amp to the antenna end also.
Nope - just use the power inserter inside. It will power the preamp on the antenna with the coax that goes to it.
The amplifier on antenna is getting damaged In lightening storms we have our antenna up 40 feet can we just attach amp inside this is 3 Rd time hard to get it down and back up I'm 65 years old
Can I use 2 antennas with a Channel Master high gain ? What else is needed?