On 25/01/2021 11:22, Roger Hayter wrote:
On 25 Jan 2021 at 10:17:18 GMT, "The Natural Philosopher"
wrote:

On 24/01/2021 18:51, charles wrote:
If you're in an area that needa masthead amp , forget a loft aerial.
Also, a bigger (multi-element) might just double the signal you are
gettting. You might do better with a higher gain amplifier. Or go for
satellite

Most TVs have plenty of gain these days.

if you have crap signal to noise the only thing that will improve it is
a bigger aerial.

Boosting **** just leads top bigger **** and/or being overloaded with ****.

A masthead amplifier can improve signal to noise ratio a little because of
cable loss. A small effect, but if the aerial is nearly good enough it can be
worthwhile.

cables may introduce loss, but not much noise.

So I still say that masthead amps have had their day. Only place for an
amp is to feed multiple aerials but that's a distribution amp



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