Anyone have an idea how to connect two antennas to a Tablo? I want use one that is focused and goes out about 150 miles to pick up some channels that are really far away and the second antenna just wanted to be a regular 50 mile range one. I read some stuff about couplers etc… but just wondering if anyone has done something like this?
Getting in a couple of days late on this, but I’m curious - would these be pointed in the same direction? If that’s the case I’d first try seeing what the results are just using the single directional antenna. I’d also echo @ChrisFix, try the inexpensive options first, and also his caveat about the “ton of variables” involved with combining.
Feel free to take a look at my TV Fool chart, and also this chart of the signal levels I made using a Magnavox ATSC tuner with its arbitrary 0-100 scale. At around 18-20 reception starts to cut in and out, so those readings are in red.
I have two identical ~80 degree beamwidth Winegard Flatwave Air pre-amplified antennas, one at 28’ pointed north and the other at 30’ pointed south in the general center of the stations of interest. I tried the Channel Plus 2512 splitter/combiner and some inexpensive generic Gemini/RCA/Magnavox 10 and 24db distro amps I had laying around in various combinations pre- combiner and finally got all channels. A week later atmospheric conditions changed and I lost the +80mi stations, never to return.
Without the combiner, I get that south PBS station (and the north Fox) just fine, for the last three months anyway (knock on wood). The south PBS is necessary to my cord cutting agenda since the wife likes Create TV. I ended up purchasing a second Tablo and dedicating one to each antenna rather than spend the money on test equipment trying to figure it out. YMMV
