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csziggy

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7. An added note - you may want to put in a distribition box
Fri May 10, 2019, 08:58 PM
May 2019

Especially if you can use the wiring that was used to distribute your cable throughout the house. That way you may only need one digital antenna for all your TVs.

I've never had cable TV - never lived anywhere it was available - but my understanding is that it usually comes in through one location and then wires are run to where ever a TV needs to be hooked up. If you need or want to put in an exterior antenna, just hook it up to that box once the cable is disconnected.

When we built this house we put in a distribution box for our satellite TV and for the telephones. When we went from satellite to Prism TV (CenturyLink over DSL TV) they did something inside the phone distribution box.

Now we are streaming all of our TV but next year I want to put in a digital antenna - which will have to go on the roof, use an amplifier, and hook it to the coax that was used for the satellite.

We're in an odd location - behind a ridge that blocks TV and cell phone signals from the direction of town. And we have an ICF house (concrete with rebar) with a metal roof. So we will have to have a digital antenna put on top of the second story roof to get over the ridge and get a signal from the west. So I have been researching the possibilities. It will NOT be cheap with the installation problem - no one wants to climb up on the second story of a slippery metal roof!

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