There are indoor ones, I'm having a hard time seeing how these could work. I have an albiet old, functioning outdoor up in the attic. It splits in two, then into four off the amp downstairs. The amp is quite old.
Now I have seen ATSC at work, where the reception is worse. I asked the boss and he told me there are two amps. They were installed decades ago, and are of course not "HDTV ready", so I am assuming such a thing will actually work.
Now I want to feed into a PCI ATSC tuner in a computer, and I know these things need a helluva lot of signal. Even on NTSC it is snowy, and can't aquire any ATSC channels. I know they are here, about thirty of them.
Is it even worth a try to throw in a really good amp with a high MOL and let everything else be taps instead of split ?
And, if this doesn't get us ATSC, or acceptably ATSC, should I even try an indoor ? On NTSC I expect notoriously crappy reception, but then multipath etc affect this differently. Do the indoor ATSC antennas work even decently ?
The added problem is that it is a PCI card. There is simply not enough room for a high gain front end. I understand this and figured I might have to deal with it, but I thought our regular antenna would at least get something. I even fed the whole output of the amp to it, still no ATSC. NTSC was still snowy also.
This card was not very expensive, I have no problem feeding it with whatever it needs, but I do not want to go buy the wrong thing and have it not work. I want the first thing I buy to work.
If it matters, I live in Cleveland Ohio, near Harvard and Denison. There is a cliff almost directly to the south of me, towards Parma, where the towers are. My current antenna recieves all local channels acceptably. If it is purely a matter of signal strength, perhaps all I need is a kickass amp.
Thanks for any help on this. I would like to see it work before the warranty runs out of course.
JURB