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Stacked TV antennas questions
I have been looking at the post-February-2009 TV situation for my
summer cabin, which is about 20 miles outside of Flagstaff AZ. Being mountainous, and semi-rural, it appears that there will still be a lot of analog repeater signals, even after the digital switchover date. Specifically, the TVFool website indicates that there will be 4 or 5 digital signals coming from Flagstaff, an azimuth of 56 degrees from my location; and maybe a dozen analog repeater signals that I am receiving now, mostly coming from a place called Mingus Mountain, an azimuth of 228 degrees from my location. Not really interested in using an antenna rotator. Did enough Googling to see that stacking antennas might be my answer, point one at Flagstaff and the other at Mingus. Can I just connect the antenna leads together, or do I need something to combine the signals from the separate antennas? Any other hints on how to maximize my reception? Also, the digital converter box I bought does not have analog passthrough. When I got it, I thought even the repeater stations would be going digital in February, I didn't know that they would be staying analog for some unknown amount of time. So, I guess I need to be set up to handle both signals, analog and digital. I was thinking to do the following to switch between analog and digital reception. Connect the antenna lead from the roof to the input of an A-B switch (3 bucks at Frys Electronics). Connect the A output of the switch to the RF input on the TV, use normal TV analog tuner for the analog repeater stations. Connect the B output of the switch to the RF input of the digital converter, connect the AV outputs of the converter to the AV inputs of the TV, set the TV to AV In. Is that going to work? Thanks in advance for any helpful hints, Jerry |
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