On 9/30/2015 4:56 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Don Y:
What sort of "content" are you relying on the coax to deliver?
Can you, instead, use a digital link and push "data" and whatever

OTA digital television.

Now that you have said it, I *could* move my SiliconDust HD Homerun
tuners out to the shed and let Ethernet do the rest - since I almost
never watch television in realtime; almost always watch the recording
even it it's only a couple minutes behind.

We already have an antenna on the house roof - it's just that it does
not do channel 6 very well.

The plan was to replace that antenna with one that is up to the task.
TV Fool said to use a "Small" antenna. I disregarded that and got
"Medium".... worked OK for a couple weeks, but then channel 12 started
dropping out and I ordered a "Large" antenna.

Little did I know.... "Large" turned out to be more like "Humongous" -
as in 32# and 11 x 7 feet.

My thinking is that such a large antenna is better left on the shed
because it's size/weight/wind resistance seem to ask for aiming issues
after a good storm and I can handle that myself with it on the side of
the garden shed - just walk out and twiddle it until my tablet shows the
right numbers - whereas I'd have to hire somebody to climb up on the
roof of the house (money and turnaround time...Not to mention the
communication issues while they're up on the roof and I'm down on the
ground looking at the numbers....).

Leave the big boy on the shed, let the rooftop feed the TVs directly and
live with channel 6 not being that wonderful.... Definitely possibility
there.

Only thing left to obsess about is how the HD Homerun tuners will
tolerate single digit temps in the dead of winter.

In my case, I ran two "feeds" for everything:
- two POTS lines
- two CATV
- two "rooftop" antenna (TV and radio)
- two broadband
into the "equipment closet". There, located "converters" to get
everything to a digital form that could be "served" wherever needed.
For TV, a pair of (dual tuner) HD HomeRun's.

Network switch is also located in that "closet" so each "converter"
can have a dedicated line into the switch -- no foreseeable bandwidth
issues AND keeps all that kit hidden so it's not cluttering up
the place.