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[QUOTE="RandomGuy, post: 4834430, member: 6422"]
I'm fortunate to have 2 cities within 70 miles.   Did you do your coax math?    If so, you "may" be toast.  With wrong math I received zero channels.  Proper math, and placement, 70 channels.  How big is your UHF?

For anyone wondering.  A common piece of Coax can lose 3-6db in 100 feet(depends on freq)   3 db, is losing HALF the signal strength.  Add a basic splitter, and lose another 3db.   Half again.  On and on..    An amplifier compensates for these massive losses.   It doesn't make the antenna pull in more.  If your amp is too big?   Its like someone screaming in your ear.  It hurts, and you cant hear a damn thing.   You calculate the loss, and use an Amp that equals your Coax loss...

Window antennas are terrible.  Those ray gun ones, that claim 100 miles?  Terrible.   A  big 8 bay bowtie antenna, on the roof, is what most in my area are using.  I've never seen a decent antenna at best buy.

Antenna map of Cuse looks like a bunch of channels.  No way you are getting CW though.  140 miles...   Best I've seen is 80.
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