A:AnswerI live in South Jersey and had the same question /concern for my area. I contacted the Manufacturer of the antenna twice with questions and they were very helpful and honest. I bought the antenna and it worked except for recieving one chanell which they expected would happen. Also if it dont work as expected you can just return it for a refund.
A:AnswerThe higher you mount the antenna, the better. Mine is in my attic and I never have any problems. If you mount it lower, the signal might have to go through your walls and your neighbor's walls to get to you.
A:AnswerIt probably depends more on your TV or whatever receiver you are using to receive the TV signal (for example, I have a DVR+ receiver to record OTA programs).
The antenna merely collects the signal. During rain, you technically are experiencing a condition called "rain fade". Typically, this affects satellite signal more than terrestrial signal as satellite signals are far weaker than terrestrial signals. Once the condition returns to normal, e.g., no longer raining, the antenna will receive the normal signals that it usually sees. How your receiver, be it TV or DVR, handles this change in signal inputs varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. Some receiver will drop the channel from its list after unable to receive the signals for some period of time while others will keep the channel on the list. Worse case, you can manually tune to the channel and then "remember" the channel OR do a re-scan (this can be painful).
Some more technical details - receivers usually operate in either "acquisition" or "tracking" mode. During acquisition mode, it tries to lock onto the signal using one set of parameters that are more "forgiving". Once acquisition is complete, the receiver switch to tracking mode which allows it to optimize the receiver performance at the cost that if conditions change drastically, it will no longer receiver the signal. Most receivers will automatically switch back to acquisition mode if it looses lock in tracking mode but the TV might manually keep the receiver in tracking mode by remembering the receiver tracking parameters and disabling automatic switch back to acquisition in order to minimize the time to switch channels. This is also the reason that a scan or re-scan takes so much time because the receiver is basically doing acquisition for each channel.
Anyway, take all of this with a grain of salt as each manufacturers have their own secret sauce on how they deal with signal acquisition and signal loss. The main take away is that it is probably not up to the antenna since antenna performance is fixed for a given setup and condition.
A:AnswerSteel siding could create interference with the reception. As long as there isn't steel between the roof and inside of the house you should be able to find a location to mount and get reception.
A:Answeryou cannot use the same coax for cable and atsc, if you have an unused one in your outdoor box you can use it you just have to take it off the splitter and put it directly to your antenna, if you are only using uverse for internet its likely you can narrow down the one that is being used for your modem and pull the others off the splitter and put another splitter in the box with it for your tv signals, if you have uverse equipment everywhere you would have to double coax your whole house, a pain to do and why do it if you have paid for tv that gets your local channels
A:AnswerI just cut the cord with DTV and tuned into The Fox News channel daily. With this antenna you can only pick up all local channels and many others. I get the local fox channel but not Fox News. You can stream it on your laptop or smart phone. The Fox News Channel is a basic cable and satellite news tv channel.
Hope this helped with your question.
Johnboy
A:Answerdrive a thick copper rod into the ground and connect antenna ground term to it? OR
connect to the ground wire from your breakout panel on the exterior of the home
A:AnswerThis antenna disappointed me after reading the reviews I purchased it. I don't have any trees or obstructions and verified the antenna was pointed at 125 degrees SW for the main channel 33.5 miles away that I was trying to pickup and could not get it, but my indoor antenna can. Unfortunately I waited 3 day past the best but return date so I am stuck with it. Save your money I wouldn't recommend this antenna
A:AnswerNo it doesn't come w a splitter. You can buy a 5 connection splitter (1 input for antenna and 4 outputs for TVs) for usually less than $20 at a big box hardware store or on the web. May want to consider a signal amplifier instead with the same outputs. You can find them for under 50.
