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Layout of our house is a spiral and the bones are cinderblock. Where the outside antenna is located is slightly north of dead center of the house. The box used to be located to the far left of the outdoor antenna, inside we were using a tiny whip antenna with somewhat ok signal in various places throughout the house, but the signal would drop constantly. Its location was also slightly under 30' from the outdoor antenna. To try and get a more consistent signal, we moved the box to the attic and put in a panel antenna in the furthest SW corner of the house (where the spiral layout begins) pointing at 45 degrees diagonally thru the center of the house. Hoping we would get better gain in the bigger common areas knowing we would have some drop in the weaker areas, but it should be better than that little whip antenna right? This also added another 10-12' of cable to get the 30' distnce between the outdoor and indoor antennas, but I didn't think 10' would cause that much loss.
Since the reconfiguration the signal is MUCH worse. There are frequent dropouts standing in front of the antenna. And our weak zones have become total deadzones. The guts of the inside antenna look really simple, does the quality of the interior antenna make that much of a difference? Was a panel antenna the wrong decision, should I have gone with a ceiling mount dome antenna? I was trying to get the strongest signal possible, now I'm just looking for consistency. Or is the quality of the booster itself part of the problem? Not sure which piece is giving us the most trouble
Layout of our house is a spiral and the bones are cinderblock. Where the outside antenna is located is slightly north of dead center of the house. The box used to be located to the far left of the outdoor antenna, inside we were using a tiny whip antenna with somewhat ok signal in various places throughout the house, but the signal would drop constantly. Its location was also slightly under 30' from the outdoor antenna. To try and get a more consistent signal, we moved the box to the attic and put in a panel antenna in the furthest SW corner of the house (where the spiral layout begins) pointing at 45 degrees diagonally thru the center of the house. Hoping we would get better gain in the bigger common areas knowing we would have some drop in the weaker areas, but it should be better than that little whip antenna right? This also added another 10-12' of cable to get the 30' distnce between the outdoor and indoor antennas, but I didn't think 10' would cause that much loss.
Since the reconfiguration the signal is MUCH worse. There are frequent dropouts standing in front of the antenna. And our weak zones have become total deadzones. The guts of the inside antenna look really simple, does the quality of the interior antenna make that much of a difference? Was a panel antenna the wrong decision, should I have gone with a ceiling mount dome antenna? I was trying to get the strongest signal possible, now I'm just looking for consistency. Or is the quality of the booster itself part of the problem? Not sure which piece is giving us the most trouble