<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Agreed. Antenna pre-amps are useful in certain very specific situations,<br>in a lot of situations they cause more harm than good.<br><br>If the amp is that old so are the cables, connectors and any balun<br>(transformer) on the antenna, as well as possibly phasing wires etc. on
<br>the antenna itself. Check all of these and tighten, clean, replace as<br>necessary.<br><br>beww<br></blockquote></div><br>Brian,<br><br>Thanks for the response. That's probably the second to last option (which also happens to be the next step/option). I'll check out monoprice for some long quad shielded RG6 cable. The very last option being, purchasing a new antenna with better UHF capability. However, being that the top of the mast is well over 40 feet off the ground, and my general avoidance of height, that solution might prove to be prohibitively expensive. :-) It might be time to think about moving out of the country and into town where they at least broadcast local stations in the clear.
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