Answered by mohu customer service 3 years ago helpful 1.
Mounting wireless antenna against metal siding.
Your metal roof might make a nice ground plane for a vertical to work against.
Wanting to install a camera by my patio door and there is no wood to mount to just siding.
When metal is involved the antenna would need to be placed in a window that faces the direction of the towers for a clear line of sight.
Most customers with metals in their building materials will often look into a roof or attic mounted antenna to get the antenna up and over the blockage.
Top sources of obstruction interference that can impact your over the air tv reception.
Probably a bad antenna but it might be fun.
Just keep the power low.
But the signal would still need to go through the metal roof.
This includes any object especially metal that would potentially block a signal from reaching the antenna.
Boxes furniture clothes and other items near or around your antenna can have an effect on performance.
Place the antenna on a metal surface that provides a ground plane to bounce the signal.
Savvy cord cutters know that an over the air ota tv antenna is the best and most cost effective way to watch your local broadcast tv stations like abc cbs nbc pbs and fox.
But it occurred to me that maybe i could build a better antenna inside my office.
So i could at least get an antenna above my office and at least over those darned metal walls.
I guess that an attic antenna my previous plan is unlikely to work well under a metal roof.
Consider a filing cabinet cookie sheet or another metal surface.
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If the home is made of metal.
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Keep any wire antennas like dipoles as far away as possible especially the ends of such antennas.
Actually i was thinking of running a wire up the wall and through the ceiling tiles.
A roof type mounting bracket such as the channel master cm3078 is adaptable for use in attic installations.
Could i use the roof itself as an antenna.
We also have a suction cup window mount for mounting magnetic based antennas.
Also aluminum foil on insulation aluminum or steel siding metal gutters at the attic level metal lath or older plaster walls and metal mesh under stucco all can interfere to some degree with reception.
You could try to load the roof like a random wire with the tuner working against an rf ground.
The mounting bracket is used.
Along with your tv antenna and your location the next critical aspect in your ability to receive free.
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Mount them to a window inside your home or office.
