I am in sNJ 08320 and have a 40' tower with an uhf/vhf antenna on there pointed toward Philadelphia to coaxial cable to an amplifier to more coaxial cable to a splitter/secondary-amplifier to a 1984 1984 Sony kv25-xbr tube set which, with over-the-air gave such good picture/sound people would ask if we already got a HDTV. I bought the converters (actually 4 different ones) and am getting just a couple of channels. I took one to my sis's house in LI, NY about 20 miles east of NYC and she got about 50 channels. I went on antennaweb and it says I should get almost nothing. People nearby report they are getting plenty of channels. I have gotten cheap internet via Comcast which came with free basic TV for a year. The tower is pretty much in the clear and this is not a valley (sNJ is flat). My antenna has some lost vanes ...it was a good one when I got it. Nobody around here installs TV antennae. I have a tree trimmer who will do the articulated bucket thing and put up an antenna for me, but then there is the question of 1-signal strength, 2-will I get anything more after all the expense? I sure would like to avoid paying for TV if possible; I already don't want to see it for free, for the most part. Where is the problem here? 1-antenna, 2-amplifier, 3-secondary-amplifier 4-the boogie man?
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