The first antenna I received was the HD 4400 so I unboxed it and hooked it up to the tv in the bedroom with the antenna leaning against the wall. To my amazement, it picked up just about every channel I wanted, even the Fox channel which is 38 miles away. It also picked up channel 8 with good signal strength to my surprise. The only channel we didnt get which was one the kids watch quite a bit is PBS.
A few days later the Jointennas and the YA-6713's showed up. Since I already got channel 8 with the UHF, I would only set up one of the yagis.
So here is how I put it together.
I attached the UHF antenna to a piece of 1 1/4 pvc piping which was very cheap at Home Depot. I then attached the yagi underneath the uhf. To join the two together, I used the jointenna for channel 10 and connected the UHF coax cable to the "all channels" coax on the jointenna. I then attached the coax cable from the yagi to the "channel 10" coax connector on the jointenna. There is one more connector and that is the connector to the coax cable that will be run down to your tv's. Once all connected, I brought up to the attic to test out. I connected an RG6 cable to the "to tv" connector and ran it down the stairs from the attic to the bedroom tv and ALL CHANNELS CAME IN! The PBS channel 10 came in with really good signal strength, in the 70% range once it was pointed in the right direction (tvfool.com can help you with the direction).
Now the hard part, run the cable down to the basement. After cutting a hole in the drywall in the kids room and a hole in the drywall behind the fridge and some drilling, I was able to run the 50 ft of cable down to the basement where the splitter for our cable tv is. I connected the antenna coax cable to the cable in connection and the other tv's were already connected. The only problem is, the hdtv's coax connector to the tv tuner was broken so I'd have to come up with another way to get the hd signal to the hdtv.
A few days later the Jointennas and the YA-6713's showed up. Since I already got channel 8 with the UHF, I would only set up one of the yagis.
So here is how I put it together.
I attached the UHF antenna to a piece of 1 1/4 pvc piping which was very cheap at Home Depot. I then attached the yagi underneath the uhf. To join the two together, I used the jointenna for channel 10 and connected the UHF coax cable to the "all channels" coax on the jointenna. I then attached the coax cable from the yagi to the "channel 10" coax connector on the jointenna. There is one more connector and that is the connector to the coax cable that will be run down to your tv's. Once all connected, I brought up to the attic to test out. I connected an RG6 cable to the "to tv" connector and ran it down the stairs from the attic to the bedroom tv and ALL CHANNELS CAME IN! The PBS channel 10 came in with really good signal strength, in the 70% range once it was pointed in the right direction (tvfool.com can help you with the direction).
Now the hard part, run the cable down to the basement. After cutting a hole in the drywall in the kids room and a hole in the drywall behind the fridge and some drilling, I was able to run the 50 ft of cable down to the basement where the splitter for our cable tv is. I connected the antenna coax cable to the cable in connection and the other tv's were already connected. The only problem is, the hdtv's coax connector to the tv tuner was broken so I'd have to come up with another way to get the hd signal to the hdtv.
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