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Message: [QUOTE="Rickideemus, post: 115286, member: 12677"]Not weird. That's exactly how it's supposed to work. There is always a minimum of 3.5 dB signal loss from a one way split. Putting the amp before the splitter makes that loss APPEAR insignificant to the tuner. The noise from the amp still gets added, but the noise from the splitter doesn't get AMPLIFIED. It's a kind of mathematical trick. There are amp calculators on the internet, and that's how it works out when you plug in typical numbers.It's not a matter of "more signal good, less signal bad." It's mathematically misleading to add antenna gain to amplifier gain. I know all the ads for indoor antennas with built in amps do that, but they lie. They really, really do.Rick[/QUOTE]