I put my sky in the attic and it was working pretty well with an amp. However recently I am loosing one channel (just a bit). Like jskenney I would recommend the Sky as well…but there are cheaper that work too.
Are you using Mohu Sky 60 in attic through brick?
-MM13
FYI I am 9 miles away from the main Philadelphia towers.
-MM13
I’m 6 miles from the major broadcast companies using an Amazon Basics ‘Regular Performance’ non-amped indoor antenna. It works great for me. My antenna is actually laying flat on my entertainment center out of sight.
@MattMan13 sorry, no brick.
Antennas Direct but it is a number of years old. The closest model is the DB2e in a current model.
I have 4 antennas in my attic combined with a splitter. The two primary antennas are the Channel Master CM-4228HD & Antenna’s Direct C4-CJM. I could probably get rid of all but the Channel Master. The DB8 style antenna seems to be the best design.
Channel Master 2020 attic mount pre amp 40 MI away from tower beautiful 1080 pic even during sports
I live 37 miles from Mt. Wilson in the LA area. I have an RCA ANT751 Compact Outdoor Antenna and a RCA TVPRAMP1R Preamp in my attic. That drops into the living room for the Tablo and tv there.
Rabbit ears can’t really pull in the high VHF (7, 9, 11) reliably, especially in the back of the house. Hence, the attic mount antenna. Any UHF antenna works anywhere in the house for the other 120 channels.
I am using an Antennas Direct, inc DB8e Extreme Range Multi-Directional Bowtie UHF Antenna with a RCA TVPRAMP1R Preamplifier for Outdoor Antenna Performance Enhancement & Extension preamp. The antenna is chimney mounted (on an old unused stove chimney) … I am about 45 miles from the general cluster of broadcast antennas… works great.
ClearStream C2 50 mile antenna (indoor/outdoor/attic) that is mounted outside on the house with a clear view toward downtown Cincinnati, OH. I’m located about 8-10 miles outside the city. It’s connected directly to the 4 tuner model of the Tablo with about 60’ of RG6 quad-shield coax.
The picture is very clear now and the has been no signal issues since I’ve moved it outside.
I have been using the Amazon Basic Ultra High Performance with my Tablo and now my Tivo OTA and it works pretty good. Unfortunately, going from hundreds of cable channels down to dozens of channels, pretty good is not good enough. FOX is consistently noisy. Most other channels are flawless…most of the time.
I have purchased an RCA ANT751 outdoor antenna and will be installing it tomorrow morning. I expect that this will end any noisy channels. I will let you know.
-MM13
I started out with an Winegard Flatwave AIR and living ~30 miles from Chicago, I got about 20 stations. I ended up returning it (I felt something was defective as I didn’t get NBC or ABC but got Fox extremely well) and got a Mohu Sky 60 and whoa…83 stations. That’s with a splitter to my Tablo and TV and not using the included amp.
@DaveG - Wow! That’s a huge improvement! It really pays to get a good quality antenna and one that works for your specific situation.
@TabloTV - how about it? I couldn’t believe it. Their website said I’d get 80 stations, which I figured that’s perfect world conditions. Never did I expect in the real world I’d get that many. Same install location, facing the same direction, same cable…right out of the box - 98% signal strength vs 70% I was seeing with the other. I couldn’t get it better than 98% on Fox - so I stopped. Most of the stations in this area are all broadcast from the same general direction. I do want to look up where some of these other stations are.