Nice but expensive VHF-UHF combiners for ATSC

[wa2ise]

Here in the NYC area, some of the DTV stations have reclaimed their old NTSC channel assignments, namely 7, 11 and 13. Everyone else is up on UHF. My mom's house still has the big VHF rooftop antenna, and a master antenna network thru out the house. This system handles the VHF DTV signals fine, but the UHF signals don't do so well. But small UHF hoops or rabbit ears work fine for UHF. Using a regular splitter allows the two antennas (VHF house, and UHF hoop or rabbit ears) to conflict with each other. Had an old VHF and UHF combiner, and that worked will but I needed a few more. Radio Shack sells similar VHF UHF combiners, but they are rather expensive, about $15 apiece. But it does the job. Now I can tune about the dial without having (usually!) to mess with the antenna.