06-10-2015, 12:38 PM
Weeeeelll our townhouse is 3 stories tall and I don't have a ladder tall enough nor the desire to find one and scale it to those heights to do it :lol:
An easier button might be to unplug the DTV dish outside and extend its coax around to another part of the deck that would let me point an antenna in the signal direction. It would still be pointing into the backside of another townhome but maybe better than facing southeast when the signals are all coming from N / NW.
The good news is that I plugged the indoor antenna into the wall jack that the DTV guy "activated" as an input into our home media box and it successfully sent signals to my man cave TV and I am assuming the rest of the coax outlets inside of the house. That bypassed all of the former incoming DTV cables, splitters etc. but at least I know that portion would work assuming I could get a better signal into the home. I thought this whole process would suck but it's actually kind of fun for me to brainstorm. Just pointing the indoor antenna in the general direction of the signals let us pick up 11 instead of 6 channels.
An easier button might be to unplug the DTV dish outside and extend its coax around to another part of the deck that would let me point an antenna in the signal direction. It would still be pointing into the backside of another townhome but maybe better than facing southeast when the signals are all coming from N / NW.
The good news is that I plugged the indoor antenna into the wall jack that the DTV guy "activated" as an input into our home media box and it successfully sent signals to my man cave TV and I am assuming the rest of the coax outlets inside of the house. That bypassed all of the former incoming DTV cables, splitters etc. but at least I know that portion would work assuming I could get a better signal into the home. I thought this whole process would suck but it's actually kind of fun for me to brainstorm. Just pointing the indoor antenna in the general direction of the signals let us pick up 11 instead of 6 channels.
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2017 Mazda CX-5 GT AWD Premium
Past: 2016 GMC Canyon All Terrain Crew Cab / 2010 Jaguar XFR / 2012 Acura RDX AWD Tech / 2008 Cadillac CTS / 2007 Acura TL-S / 1966 5.0 HO Mustang Coupe
2001 Lexus IS300 / 2004 2.8L big turbo WRX STI / 2004 Subaru WRX / A couple of old trucks