terry quinn

Where we are located, all but one of our over-the-air stations are in
the same direction from our house, and a single UHF antenna in our
attic picks up the digital signal just fine.

The remaining station is almost 90 degrees to that direction, and
under good conditions, we'll get good HDTV reception from that station
on the same antenna. But under windy conditions, or when the trees
are iced, we get breakup on the HDTV signal from that once station in
the other direction.

Obviously we could put a rotator on the antenna we have, which would
solve the problem. My question is, as a less expensive fix that would
not require rotation, could we also just put a second antenna, point
it in the direction of that one station, and bring both signals into
the house distribution cable with a antenna splitter?

I realize if we were receiving analog, that this would probably cause
ghosting. But with digital, will the TV tuner just choose the
stronger signal?

Try it, it MAY work. It's just a likely you will get multipath.
A rotor is really the best solution, although not the cheapest.

Chip

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robinlos

How far away is the odd station?

netmask

maybe you could bandpass the second antenna (so any other signals other than
the desired station are severely attenuated) and then combine the 2 antennas
via a multiplexer like they do on many high rise apartment blocks with
antennas pointing in every which way..

terry quinn

Thanks for the suggestions. I got back up in the attic and
repositioned the antenna, and found a point where I was able to get a
good signal on all stations. I think the reason is that they are
broadcasting the digital signal using another station's antenna, so
all of the stations are now aligned.

Terry

puckdropper

Would an A/B switch work? You'd simply switch between the two antennas
when you wanted to watch the different programs.

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glenzabr

You want to buy a Multidirectional antenna.

terry quinn

I bought an antenna housed in a disk from Radio Shack that looked like
it might be multi-directional. But it did not work as well as a
regular antenna. Much worse, in fact. Is there a good multi-
directional antenna that might work?
tq

glenzabr

Read the CEA remarks at the bottom of this website to help locate the best one
for you.

http://www.solidsignal.com/channelmaster_antenna_chart.asp

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