Downgrading (upgrading) antennas
Hi, I'm wondering what type of antenna would be suitable and adequate for my situation. The pictured rooftop antenna is ancient and the original for this house, a Channel Master from mid 1950s I assume? It's gigantic and I'm sure a modern antenna will be more effective while not having to be as large to match quality. I'm adding onto the house and redoing the entire roof while at it, as it's overdue. Roofer asked about the antenna and once I thought about it and researched, I figured I should throw away this big eyesore and get a new antenna, mounted in the attic, ideally, for a cleaner look.
https://www.rabbitears.info/s/1769901 Here are my rabbitears results. I live in a rural setting with terrible cell phone service, but I do happen to have one TV broadcast tower fairly close. Anything else besides the one tower will have a bad connection due to distance and terrain. I do have a lot of trees on my property and tall 80 and 90' silos on the farm where I live, so I was unsure what type and size of antenna would be necessary for me on the house. Ideally, I would like to avoid a roof mount with the replacement, instead going with an exterior wall mount or a clean look attic install.
The only other wrench to throw in the situation is if I do install a different antenna in the attic, I'll still need to separately mount that pictured small white wifi antenna on the roof or exterior wall, pointed at our one 90' silo with a repeater up top. Currently, the coax cable runs sloppily down along the roof and exterior brick wall and comes into the basement through an egress window framing hole, then splitting off to a couple main floor living space walls. My idea is to bring new coax into the attic and down a plumbing/duct closet chase to a little more direct of a run and a lot more clean of a look.
Any recommendations or thoughts? Thank you in advance.
Hi, I'm wondering what type of antenna would be suitable and adequate for my situation. The pictured rooftop antenna is ancient and the original for this house, a Channel Master from mid 1950s I assume? It's gigantic and I'm sure a modern antenna will be more effective while not having to be as large to match quality. I'm adding onto the house and redoing the entire roof while at it, as it's overdue. Roofer asked about the antenna and once I thought about it and researched, I figured I should throw away this big eyesore and get a new antenna, mounted in the attic, ideally, for a cleaner look.
https://www.rabbitears.info/s/1769901 Here are my rabbitears results. I live in a rural setting with terrible cell phone service, but I do happen to have one TV broadcast tower fairly close. Anything else besides the one tower will have a bad connection due to distance and terrain. I do have a lot of trees on my property and tall 80 and 90' silos on the farm where I live, so I was unsure what type and size of antenna would be necessary for me on the house. Ideally, I would like to avoid a roof mount with the replacement, instead going with an exterior wall mount or a clean look attic install.
The only other wrench to throw in the situation is if I do install a different antenna in the attic, I'll still need to separately mount that pictured small white wifi antenna on the roof or exterior wall, pointed at our one 90' silo with a repeater up top. Currently, the coax cable runs sloppily down along the roof and exterior brick wall and comes into the basement through an egress window framing hole, then splitting off to a couple main floor living space walls. My idea is to bring new coax into the attic and down a plumbing/duct closet chase to a little more direct of a run and a lot more clean of a look.
Any recommendations or thoughts? Thank you in advance.