Splitting UHF/VHF Signals Experiment

[sajanisch]

See also these posts: http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000016.html  http://www.milwaukeehdtv.org/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000249.html

I really lucked out at Radio Shack yesterday, I went to pick up 2 $9 uhf/vhf splitter/combiners and they had on clearance their higher end UHF/VHF(hi)/VHF(lo) splitters (for $5, marked down from $20).

For those who are experimenting with splitting, and attenuating the different signals, I am curious what approach you are using:
[1] split, attenuate, combine
or
[2] split, attenuate, switch to select uhf, vhf (hi/lo) only

is there any harm in recombining the signals as in [1]?

 I'd really like to not have another switch to flip depending on which channel I am watching

thanks, Scott

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Princeton Graphics 32" Monitor
(with built in tuner/HDTV compatible)
HiDTV Pro 2 computer reciever card
Terk-55 Roof Antenna and Rotor

[This message has been edited by sajanisch (edited 01-03-2003).]

[Joseph S]

I'm using the converter in reverse with two antenna sources.

Silver Sensor for UHF and Roof for VHF. By knocking the extra stuff off the Silver Sensor my signal on CBS went from 50 indoor to 80 indoor with a minor hit on my previous ABC receception.

This is of course only in use because the community roof antenna had suddenly gone from 65 to 50 on CBS so I did some experimenting.