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Message: [QUOTE="Rickideemus, post: 115189, member: 12677"]Must not be a thick forest, or you wouldn't be getting as good as you got. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" />That's why you need an antenna with a little wider beam width. The Yagi is very directional.Understood. Don't risk life or limb(s). I wish you could try a tall pole, but probly not worth the investment, just on the off chance... Wait! Did you try different heights in the TVF Report?Gotcha. Ouch, that means you can't get NBC! I think Steve and I are hoping to get you Boston as well as the the 125 degree stations -- with no need to rotate. (No guarantees.)If you want to get obsessive, you could find the exact direction with Google maps, provided you're close to a public road. That would be the "True" direction headings on the report. OTOH, some trial and error will come into play anyhow with the direction.Ah, there we go into the realm of witches brew and magic dust... WAIT! The Spanish WUNI is 1 edge, and the 125 degree stations are all 2 edge. That might be the super-scientific reason, or it might just be a load of :deadhorse:What kind of booster? What you need to overcome the splitting, and long coax run, is a pre-amplifier, and it should be as close to the antenna as possible -- has to be outside, long before coax meets the splitter. Splitter is inside, I assume.That's too nutty for me. STOP IT! :daffy:The amp is adding all kinds of noise to the system. We gotta get something better set up.Well, that's what you get with a weird setup like that! Or it could just be the extra length of coax from the bedroom to the living room. Or the Vizio might have a really good tuner. I have a $60 Walmart TV -- tuner seems PDG.I think I would go with this: <a href="http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/30-2425">Stellar Labs HDTV 60 Mile Fringe Bowtie Television Antenna | 30-2425 (302425) | Stellar Labs</a> which is the same antenna Steve first recommended, but $17 cheaper, after you add shipping. If you think you want high VHF WNAC and WPRI let us know now. Fox and CBS are duplicated elsewhere, but they might have subchannels or local programming you want, so that's your homework assignment. I have another antenna in mind, if those two channels are important.I also think you'll probably need a pre-amp, since you're splitting some marginal signals, but try it first with no amp, and just one two way splitter (two way -- that's important) to feed the two TVs. Then if you don't get all the green and yellow UHF stations you want (excepting WUNI, WNAC and WPRI), get back to us with the model number of your amplifier. Might have to scuttle that one and get a nice, low noise pre-amp.Good Luck,Rick[/QUOTE]

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