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In Reply to: been there, done that posted by petew on January 05, 2002 at 11:38:19:
Pete,In the attic what's the model number of the RS antenna, and how far away from the source towers are you? Is it direct line of sight, with no hills or buildings in between?
Thanks,
bstan
Follow Ups:
oh, wait, I remember I didn't get the RS but one from the Sears hardware. I hate going into RS -- will do anything to avoid it. I think most of the building supply places have them too: like Home Depot and Lowes.I bought the smallest "rooftop" model they had, it was about $30. It's not easy to get up in my attic or I'd go and get the model number for you, but it has about 7 or 9 VHF elements and the YAGI reflector in the tail with a bunch of UHF elements.
I suspended it from the rafters with string--but now I wish I'd put up some kind of mast with a rotor, even though it'd be a pain to run a cable down to the control...I may do that soon, now that it's cold up there.
Was worried about grounding and lightening for a while but it's been up there for 2 seasons and the house hasn't caught fire (yet). I suppose it's grounded thru the coax shield where I spliced into the cable TV distribution (had to cut the coax and put a "T" in line--that wasn't too hard and came out OK, but be sure to disconnect your cable TV feed where it comes into the house to the ground block, then just re-plumb the coax so the antenna feed goes on the IN side of the distribution/ground block where the cable feed was disconnected--get it?), but I really ought to do it properly, I suppose. don't turn me in.
I'm fortunate to be up on a hill facing a direct line-of-sight to most of Philly's broadcast towers, about 20 miles or thereabouts. I think I"m within 30 miles of all the antennas in the Philly area, and can even get Allentown, which is over the hill behind me. The link below says I don't even need the antenna in the attic, but what do they know.
But check out the link that Tom (was it tom??)posted below. I think I'm going to go with the biggest antenna that will fit between the rafters and still rotate. I'll let you know how it works out.
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