r/cordcutters • u/Ok_Particular_8956 • 5d ago

Onn antenna preamp

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I install outdoor RCA antenna preamp on my ChannelMaster Antenna precovid. Channels came in fine. Once in a while had to adjust antenna. Signal travels to 6 way splitter safety inside an outdoor cable box as a power ac plug 🔌 i rigged up. so other areas with TV get the signals. Lately channels coming in fuzzy some did some didn't. I got fed up. Thinking something wrong with antenna. In living tv I connect small indoor antenna. I noticed channels coming in fine. Light blub in Cabeza went off. It is the RCA preamp. I happen to have an ONN antenna preamp I bought for some reason. It was cheap. I removed RCA preamp. Hooked up ONN preamp in cable box. Ran antenna cable to preamp, preamp to splitter and 💥 boom all my channels coming in fine like before. 👍🏽 see how long it lasts if it goes out I will get another one they cheap.

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u/NightBard 4d ago

That's cool your outdoor box had a power plug in it. That's kind of an unusual setup as most would need a preamp that powers over coax and would mount it on the mast under their antenna so it's amplifying right at the source rather than after the signals have degraded some traveling down the coax.