dlrhawks
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Just bought a Winegard HD6010 from Home Depot, $27 ship to store. Just installed it today, hooked up to a Kenwood KT-615 in very nice original condition.
I installed it at my cabin, right next to the Mississippi River on the Iowa side. I'm right up against a 450 foot bluff to the west, and a 400 foot bluff about a mile and a half across the river on the Wisconsin east side. It's a very bad location for reception for just about any type of electronics, but I can get some reception due north to southeast. I've never really been able to get any reception with your average ordinary dipoles that one can buy for $5 - about 30 miles was the limit. I knew I needed an outdoor solution, but given the river valley aspect, I was afraid I wouldn't get much improvement.
I have it mounted on an old DirecTV j-pole dish mount about 12 feet off the ground using a 60 foot piece of rg6 coax (that's roughly 16 years old!) with zero splices. I picked up an FM station in Madison WI approximately 88 miles to the tower this afternoon. Lacrosse WI stations roughly 70 miles come in with ease. I'm not really aiming at them either!
Not bad for $27 and a couple hours work. I had zero stations worth listening to before out of maybe 10 total (modern country drivel galore). I now have 6 that are listenable. Maybe 40 stations total come in now. I now get a couple college radio stations, three decent classic rock stations I didn't get prior, a good classical station, and a low watt pirate station out of Glen Haven WI (Pool 10 FM), which was the sole reason I bought the antenna!
Considering the location and money spent, very satisfied...
I installed it at my cabin, right next to the Mississippi River on the Iowa side. I'm right up against a 450 foot bluff to the west, and a 400 foot bluff about a mile and a half across the river on the Wisconsin east side. It's a very bad location for reception for just about any type of electronics, but I can get some reception due north to southeast. I've never really been able to get any reception with your average ordinary dipoles that one can buy for $5 - about 30 miles was the limit. I knew I needed an outdoor solution, but given the river valley aspect, I was afraid I wouldn't get much improvement.
I have it mounted on an old DirecTV j-pole dish mount about 12 feet off the ground using a 60 foot piece of rg6 coax (that's roughly 16 years old!) with zero splices. I picked up an FM station in Madison WI approximately 88 miles to the tower this afternoon. Lacrosse WI stations roughly 70 miles come in with ease. I'm not really aiming at them either!
Not bad for $27 and a couple hours work. I had zero stations worth listening to before out of maybe 10 total (modern country drivel galore). I now have 6 that are listenable. Maybe 40 stations total come in now. I now get a couple college radio stations, three decent classic rock stations I didn't get prior, a good classical station, and a low watt pirate station out of Glen Haven WI (Pool 10 FM), which was the sole reason I bought the antenna!
Considering the location and money spent, very satisfied...