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<DIV>On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Marc Paré <<A
title="mailto:marc@marcpare.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:marc@marcpare.com">marc@marcpare.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> I am
considering moving from cable to OTA and was wondering if any on this<BR>>
list would have any recommendations for an attic antenna.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">"All Depends" when it comes to
OTA. Unlike Dave's location (transmitters at opposite compass points) in
my location all of the local stations except one are located at an antenna farm
about 15 miles from here. The exception is one which stayed at an antenna
farm about three miles from here.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Because the transmitters are relatively
close (15 miles) I found the combination of an AntennaDirect DB-2e
antenna (also in the attic) with a Winegard HDP-269 pre-amp seems to
work best. The pre-amp is designed to be more forgiving of sudden signal
strength changes. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">If in your location the transmitters are
spread out but relatively local I would <U>not</U> recommend an active
omnidirectional antenna as the built-in amplifying circuitry can be overloaded,
causing signal drop-outs. (Too much signal is as bad as not
enough.)</FONT></DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype"></FONT>
<DIV><BR><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">My backend has four tuners, so needed a
4x splitter: 7 dB loss; </FONT><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">50' of RG6/U is
2.5 dB loss, hence the need for a pre-amp.</FONT></DIV>
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