On December 16, 2013 at 21:23, Iwanttvfofreeee said...
Thanks for your reply! Sucks to hear Toronto doesn't like Buffalo, might be because of the hockey teams lol.
More likely Buffalo advertisers were able to exert influence and have the Toronto stations minimize the Canadian ads that go into the US. This might even be an international treaty issue! I doubt hockey is THAT important. But hey, I'm in California, where it's 9:30 AM and the temperature has lately gone down into the sixties....
On December 15, 2013 at 14:36, Nueatit said...
One thing at a time, the existing co-ax from sat, can be reused, normally very good cable.
Definitely.
The other questions, from your location, stations are in all directions, to get all, an outdoor antenna with pre-amp on a rotor is the only option.
This is true as regards the direction signals come from, but you might need to work out some way to bypass the amp when the antenna is pointed generally toward strong stations. A strong signal can overload the amp and make it perform poorly (no damage as a result, though), including perhaps not letting a weak channel get through when strong ones are in the same direction.
Then start doing one thing at a time. I would look at using an outdoor pre-amp and antenna to get the distant channels in one direction, eg Toronto, run co-ax into house, and After the power inserter just before tv, place a two way splitter and combine your locall indoor antenna with the outdoor one, to your tv AND see what happens.
Also try a switch instead of a splitter. If one antenna has a great signal from a station and the other has a totally crappy signal from that same station, combining the two may give a crappy result. When the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers mix, the first one does not clean up the mud of the second one: the combo is muddy all the way to the gulf.
PS: Any good 8 bay antenna covering chn 14 to 69 should work, Toronto chn 9 is actually on chn 9 rf VHF, not available on UHF bow tie antennas.
Right. Look at the tvfool info's "Real" channel column. Bowties won't pick up any stations from 13 on down.
