Setting-up two antennas, UHF

[AgHD]

I have more questions on antennas: on rotors and pre amp use in my location. After visiting with Tech. Support on phone we got the the Mod.7698P for CR and 7084P for QC and highy consider an A/B switch. With that thank-you. My zip code is 52747 approx 60 from CR and 30 mile from QC. Doing the AntWeb ( will only get QC channels with compass headings 298 to 93 and with that will the 7048P bring in channels 4,6,8,12,18,20,24,34,41,61 in UHF if transmitted as it happens. the same with CR channels they may be closer together, as 2,7,9,and others i am not sure of with AntWeb not going that direction. The antennas will be outside approx. 25ft high, replacing storm damaged(will hire bucket trck(cost)) that are 20+ years old, maybe replace the coax cable also, some age, approx 40ft, one 2way splitter to feed only two TVs. And would a rotor/pre amp on: one/both antennas and correct setup for the two antennas wold like to keep the cost down, but have it work very good and with one trip with the bucket truck. Thanks

[winegard]

Good morning AgHD -

If you are going to use an A/B switch than you have the correct antennas. I would definitely recommend replacing old coax with high quality RG-6. If not make sure all connections are snug and there are no shorts or grounds. I would recommend an AP-8700 preamp for the HD7084P and an AP-8275 for the HD7698P pointing at Cedar Rapids. I would still think the Cedar Rapids stations will be a challenge to receive. If you want to use a rotor, I would go with the HD8200U with an AP-8275 preamp.

[AgHD]

Thank-you for the info., I would like to keep as simple as needed, but get very good performance with my set-up. If i did not use the a/b switch,use one new coax cable use the antennas listed above and use a preamp on the CR antenna, but then looking at the picture, i would be preamping both antennas with one preamp. Will this work? It looks like the preamps connect to the pole/mast the antenna connects to as well. Will one preamp work on two antennas,plus other info you may have.
Different angle to veiw this, two antennas one for QC and one for CR as stated before and no: preamps, rotors, A/B switch, say a very basic setup with one new coax cable. Stay with HD7084P for QC and HD7698 for Cedar Rapids, other options, with this UHF/HD signal we seem to need? Hopefully i explained my thoughts, to get more good info.

[AgHD]

An other part of this setup the length of the pole is approx. 5feet total to use for my antennas, on the bottom 1st foot is my wireless internet antenna, with my two old storm damaged having approx. two feet between the two antennas, CR on top pointing west to NW, QC pointing east to SE, and the wireless antennas pointing west, they talk about in the plane or veiw. Looking at the specs.HD7084P is 25.5" and HD7698P is 33" in height, with the UHF 'V' giving the height, how close and then the topic of the preamp: location and usage of these. Thanks

[winegard]

Good morning AgHD -

Here is an excellent post regarding information for combining antennas. Take a read at... http://www.winegard.com/kbase/kb_tip_results.php?tip_num=380.

We still stand by our earlier recommendation of using the HD7084P / AP-8700 and the HD7698P / AP-8275 with an A/B switch... OR... using an HD8200U / AP-8275 with a rotor. Will it work another way? Possibly, but this is our recommendation.

[AgHD]

Thank-you for your input on this topic(s). Have a very good day. This answers my questions.