Ok I had to buy a new aerial. This is easy but this thing is odd ball. Do they make a 1 inch mask? No local places here have a 1 inch at all. I would buy one online but no luck searching for one.

Is there anything else I can use to mount this. I have to ground mount the pole being I am in a apt. So would need something about 10 feet tall. I never seen such a odd size mount before.

Years ago I professionally, erected tv antennas. The standard mast was larger, about 1-1/4", it came in anodized aluminum, raw aluminum, painted steel & galvanized steel all 10' long. Sometimes a customer would want installation of an antenna with their materials. Often the antenna was in the form of a kit with a 5' foot 1" mast. Kits like that were sold at discount stores. These flimsy antennas lasted but one or two seasons in the harsh salt water environment...

The antennas "U" bolts should accommodate the correct size mast, If not, an aluminum plate can be fabricated as an in-between adapter to accept the smaller clamps of the antenna and the larger clamps for the mast. Cut the plate to size with a saber saw and drill holes for "U" bolts. Orient the saddle for the "U" bolt to the surface of the adapter plate so the masts have a curved surface to marry too...

Ground mounting is a code to help direct lightning to the earth via the mast...

Do not substitute mast material with ordinary pipe unless the strength is known...

Chas

The cheap skates in my area used conduit.

This is the aerial I got coming any day
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007NP ... 00_details

I wish it would hurry thought sick of no tv at all. I will temp set it up inside till I can find the right mast

I used the top rail from chain link fencing very successfully. I bought muffler u-clamps at the auto store. The rails are 10' long and bigger than 1".

Go www.highdefforum.com and click on the "local hdtv reception" sub-forum and post this question there; all sorts of experts on antenna reception there.

Post back how you like this antenna. I'm pondering on one too.

Thanks

Carl

I have a similar but not exact one - based on the same double bay gray-hoverman design (DBGH). I am 95% happy with it but our deep-fringe standard antenna has slightly better reception.

For the small footprint of the DBGH design, unless you are far away from the transmitters like I am, I would think you'll love it. They are inexpensive.

It looks like it should work fairly well for UHF, but does it really work well on VHF too? At my location the station that calls itself channel 2 is broadcasting on channel 7. All the rest are on various UHF channels.

I got it and it works great. Heck I have not got it outside yet but using inside for now. I found a 1 inch J mount.

I can pick up all the channels here. Are cbs is about 79 miles away also uhf so it is hard to get this network here. I gave other types a try this one picks it up good.

I can not fig out how to earth it no info in the user guide. So for now I will be doing the 70's thing if it storms unhook the cable. The box remote part work good like others no info on what way it is pointing. But not a big deal breaker.

Very easy to put this together also it looks nice. I mean it does not stick out like a sore you know. Being in a apt I need something that looks half good and works great this was it.

To add shipping was fast and it came in a1 shape.

Edit to add

This is the mast I got coming soon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001V6 ... 00_details

I may get some tsk-tsks and laughs for this one, Yes it's a kluge. I used a 5-foot long heavy garden log as the mast base, buried into the ground about a foot with metal arms to absorb swaying. Attached is a length of fairly heavy angle iron to which is attached a length of stainless steel pipe to which the antenna is secured. Total height is about 18 feet, about equal to roof height. (It is well grounded via heavy copper wire.) But it works and has been up for over four years through sunshine, storms, and some horrific winds (even gale strength). If I need to service the antenna elements, I can alone undo the angle iron's main bolt connection to the log and swivel it down to rest on a sawhorse. TMJ70 mentioned using auto muffler clamps, which is OK, but I would not since they'll rust (unless they are galvanized, which is not usual). They will last a long time I guess, but may be hard to work on when servicing.

Like Chas, I installed many antennas for a firm for about a decade.

Here I am in New York City, about 17 miles from the Empire State Building, where the TV transmitters are. Deep Fringe antenna, mast mounted pre-amp, new RG-6-- and it pixelates ALL the time, on all the stations. One 300 foot high hill in the way, and the hill is 3 miles from me. Pre-digital, a piece of wire gave good results. With a portable tv outside during the summer, I never had to extend the rod antenna. Just the first section was good enough. I have now gone through 4 DTV converters, to try and find one that is more sensitive. "Good Luck With That".

And using the same set-up for FM gives me a nice fat locked in stereo signal.

Hell, when I lived on that previously mentioned hill, I had a rotor, and watched New Haven, Philadelphia, a UHF station in Coatesville, Pa., as well as all of the NY stations. Every day, day in, day out. Regardless of the weather.

No one around here uses an outdoor antenna at all any longer. You either have to pay well over one hundred dollars a month for cable, or over a hundred dollars a month for FIOS. And the FIOS price changes after an "Introductory Period".

Yup, technology has really advanced. I just can't say forward.

John S.