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Birdy
Birdy asked in Consumer ElectronicsTiVO & DVRs · 1 decade ago

HD Antenna boosting???

Here is my situation. I live 16 miles from two stations, and 30 miles from about 4 more. According to elevation I am slightly above the town 16 miles away, and about 150 feet below the stations 30 miles away. My house sits in one of the highest areas of my town, with large trees around my house. I currently have a Terk HD (Terk TV55) antenna. Its about 4 feet long and about 8 inches wide.

I cannot being in any hd stations with any type of reliability at all. With football season here, I need to know what I should do to get a better HD signal. Do I need a booster at the antenna? Do I need a booster at my receiver? How much of a boost do I even need?

Any help would be great.

Thanks everyone.

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  • Grumpy Mac
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    First - is your antenna an indoor or outdoor?

    Try typing your address into http://www.antennaweb.org/ and see what type and size of an antenna it recommends for you.

    Adding an amp to a too-small indoor antenna might help or might not. They are cheep enough at Radio Shack that you should try it.

    Chances are re-locating your antenna to a better line-of-sight to the broadcast towers, or rotating it might help.

    Also - Terk is not known to be a very good antenna. A Silver Sensor from Phillips or a Wineguard outdoor antenna have a lot of fans.

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