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So I'm trying to fix a problem my parents are having. They want to stop paying for satellite, and just pick up public stations, but they can't seem to get any of the stations they care about no mater what antenna they buy. I thought there could be a system put in place that uses one antenna hooked up to a wireless box that would repeat the signal and then have individual antennas for each television that picked up that signal, similar to how a wifi modem works. Problem is I can't find any products that clearly states that is what they do, so I don't know if this method even exists. Anyone have suggestions on either getting my method to work or a better method?
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Oct 25, 2017 16:17
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Have you tried large attic or roof mount antennas?
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Oct 25, 2017 16:31
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Don Lapre posted:Have you tried large attic or roof mount antennas? I don't think so. They have the room to do it too. Maybe that would work. Still the issue is that not all the TV's in their house can be hardwired to that central antenna so I was hoping for a wireless solution.
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Oct 25, 2017 16:50
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Are you sure it's possible for them to get the signal in the first place? If they're on the edge of the range it might not be doable no matter what antenna. Keep in mind when over the air tv switched over to HD I'm pretty sure the reception range dropped so if they used to get service back in the 80s and 90s they might not necessarily get service now.
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Oct 25, 2017 17:12
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Start with http://antennaweb.org/ to see what the antenna industry thinks they could get, you might be SOL without something on a mast. https://www.silicondust.com/product/hdhomerun-prime/ These people make network TV tuners, but that doesn't get it on your TVs without additional hardware. edit: Are you sure these are HD TVs? They did make LCD TVs for a few years before everything was HD, they would have worked fine with a satellite box but have no tuner for OTA HD signals.
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Oct 25, 2017 17:22
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All the TV's in their house are HD at this point. And they can pick up all the stations they care about but only when the antenna is located in a particular spot, usually a window, on the north facing side of the house. The issue is that they have to run a long coax cable that is unsightly and in the way to do so, which is why I wanted to find a wireless option to tie into that antenna. Honestly, though at this point, I might just sell them on the idea of a Roku since they can get all the public stations on there as well.
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Oct 25, 2017 17:29
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Oh yea if they have decent internet then just forgetting about the antenna part is the way to go in this situation.
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Oct 25, 2017 17:33
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Why can't you put a big antenna on the roof/attic and then split the feed coming off the antenna?
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Oct 25, 2017 20:41
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BAILOUT MCQUACK! posted:I don't think so. They have the room to do it too. Maybe that would work. Still the issue is that not all the TV's in their house can be hardwired to that central antenna so I was hoping for a wireless solution. If they have satellite or cable now then you can wire an antenna into the locations.
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Oct 25, 2017 20:46
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BAILOUT MCQUACK! posted:All the TV's in their house are HD at this point. And they can pick up all the stations they care about but only when the antenna is located in a particular spot, usually a window, on the north facing side of the house. The issue is that they have to run a long coax cable that is unsightly and in the way to do so, which is why I wanted to find a wireless option to tie into that antenna. Honestly, though at this point, I might just sell them on the idea of a Roku since they can get all the public stations on there as well.
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Oct 28, 2017 22:10
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Ebay for a BDA-S1and BDP-100/pi, that's a antenna booster with a power injector so you can drive it without having to run 120VAC out to the antenna. You want a booster for most antenna runs over about 20' as the cable losses begin to be a factor over normal SNR problems.
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Oct 31, 2017 14:33
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