OK, one of my major chores during this brief semi-hiatus period is to install three antennas of different frequency bands up-top my tower.
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One of the previous owners of the house put up this stacked Yagi TV antenna up there but forgot one important detail fundamental to all antennas...COUNTERPOISE !
Giving it a good grounding earth system to push off from. It is like trying to pound a nail in a board, but you put it on your pillow on the bed to do so. You gotta have a solid push off point to get the very best out of your system and any range.
Well....after I noticed there was no ground on the tower as a counterpoise, I got an 8 foot solid copper grounding rod and pounded it in the ground and attached it to the tower after wire brushing off some of the galvanizing for a good connection.
I get back into the house and do an automatic channel search on the TV and before i had 13 channels, I now have 21.
21 over-the-air free digital TV channels.
Picked up 8 new ones just by grounding my antenna tower.
PS...deleted 3 because they were bible thumping (and boring) religious broadcasts.
One was yet another home improvement channel called TWIST, and another one is similar to MeTV with all of their oldie but goodie shows from when i was a little kid, hilariously called ANTENNA TV.
...and the wife still got to keep her MURDER PORN channel.
(why to women love Murder Porn so much, anyway ?...I swear she is taking notes)