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To: Kid Shelleen

I don’t recall the model number of the antenna, and I actually no longer see it on the Radio Shack website. It’s a directional antenna that actually looks a little like a satellite dish. The whole thing is encased in a plastic cocoon, and the untrained eye might think it was a satellite dish pointed sideways.

This last week I moved it to the top of a 10 foot mast, and also installed a rotator. I get every channel from Fresno to Bakersfield.

I’ve still got some more setup to do. I plan to move the wires inside of the mast to protect them from the chimney exhaust. I didn’t want to use a chimney mount since my chimney is brick and I was concerned with wind-load and cracking, but it was by far the easier way for my particular setup.

And I need to install guy wires also. But for now it’s working great. The big hassle now is getting all of the channels scanned in, and then deselecting all of the foreign gibberish.

Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.


118 posted on 05/07/2014 11:03:23 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: MarineBrat

Thanks FRiend. I have a Radio Shack indoor antenna and it works pretty good. I will look into the outdoor antenna ;


127 posted on 05/07/2014 5:04:45 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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