10/23/2017 0 Comments How To Install Yagi AntennaAmazon. com RCA Compact Outdoor Yagi HDTV Antenna with 7. Mile Range Home Audio Theater. Fantastic for non line of sight hilly areas 3. By. Vince. 52. on. October 2. 8, 2. 01. The indepth review will help you to choose your optimum Outdoor HDTVcompatible Antenna. The single most important thing you can do to extend the range of your 802. 11 system is to install an external antenna with some good gain and. A Free Do It Yourself guide on how to pick a TV antenna, install a TV antenna, and point a TV antenna. The Diamond 2 Meter Beam Antennas are easy to assemble and install. Only a few cautions are necessary in their installation. The A144S5 may be installed for either. Verified Purchase. OK gang heres the story Tried a few antennas before settling on the RCA. Background 4. 0 years Broadcast Engineer. Radio, TV, Ham, Radar. Havana FL Terrain Hilly in a slight valley and trees surrounding the property. The Story. Cut the cord a few years ago with Direc. TV. Prices constantly rising every month. You know, nickle and dime stuff until the bill was close to 1. Bye, Bye satellite. I then went exclusively with Amazon Prime, been an Amazon customer some 1. Netflix. These 2 gave me the best bang for my buck. Movies and TV shows streamed via my DSL and my DVD collection helped. Recently I decided to try a converter box on my TV, its an oldie but goodie HD 1. DLP. I keep stuff forever. I purchased a View TV AT 1. ATSC box with a 5. You know the antenna Im talking about, the one that looks like a mouse pad. I used my old satellite RG6 cable and hooked the antenna to it and laid it on the patio rail. Sort of aimed it to see what Id get. I am. 3. 0 miles from the antennas in a valley with trees all around and yes the signal was breaking up I expected that. Decided to see if I could do better so. Antenna number 1 was a Winegard Omni directional 4. MS 2. 00. 2 and a Winegard DS3. J Pole mount for side of the house. This antenna was 3. AGL. Reception was terrible and this antenna was supposed to be amplified also. The same 7 channels with break up. Back it went. Antenna number 2 was a 1by. One 6. 0 mile Amplified Omni directional. Up the pole it went 3. AGL. 8 channels some usable the others constantly breaking up. Back it went. Antenna number 3 was the RCA Yagi Directional ANT7. R antenna UHFVHF. It boasts about a 4. I also decided to pick up a Windgard XT LNA 2. Boost preamp since this antenna is not amplified at all. The RCA comes with everything you need for mounting on the side of the house. I have an extra pole, thanks RCA, love yasUp the pole it went. AGL. I placed the LNA on the pole right under the antenna, hooked everything up and aimed the Yagi to 9. Had the converter box re scan for channels and got 1. Terrific. I now have view able television. This RCA ANT7. 51. R is a keeper. Construction is of high quality aluminum, stainless, and plasticnylon parts and I have no doubt it will last for years to come. Networks received ABC CBS NBC FOX and a few piggyback stations that transmit from the networks including a channel that plays old B W movies, love em, and a local weather channel so I can tune into MY area for up to date weather feeds. All of these networks are approximately 2. TVFOOL. com. All the other antennas I tried only got signal strengths fluctuating of around 4. The RCA ANT7. 51. R and the Wingard LNA Preamp are a perfect combo if you live in an area like mine. There are other stations to the South of me as well and I see another RCA Yagi in my future. It has proven itself completely reliable Oh By the way, I put this antenna up under very cloudy skies with intermittent rain. Signals should increase slightly when the weather clears. Enjoy. v Update on OTA TV Box, 0. Was using a View TV AT 1. ATSC box. Box has since failed and I went to a Mediasonic HW 1. PVR Home. Worx ATSC Digital TV Converter Box. Ive reviewed this box and find it to be superior to the View TV and i. View boxes that Ive tried. v Update 0. The antenna reviewed above with its Wineguard Preamp are still functioning perfectly. Absolutely no adjustments have been needed as of this date. Very happy with this combination and recommend both. v Update 0. Tweaked the antenna a bit and signal strength is 7. G0. KSC Simple to build, High Performance Yagi and Quad Antennas Home of the LFA Yagi. Google Translate. Select Language. English. Afrikaans. Albanian. Arabic. Armenian. Azerbaijani. Basque. Belarusian. Bulgarian. Catalan. Chinese SimplifiedChinese TraditionalCroatian. Czech. Danish. Dutch. Estonian. Filipino. Finnish. French. Galician. Georgian. German. Greek. Haitian Creole. Hebrew. Hindi. Hungarian. Icelandic. Indonesian. Irish. Italian. Japanese. Korean. Latvian. Lithuanian. Macedonian. Malay. Maltese. Norwegian. Persian. Polish. Portuguese. Romanian. Russian. Serbian. Slovak. Slovenian. Spanish. Swahili. Swedish. Thai. Turkish. Ukrainian. Urdu. Vietnamese.
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