HDTV Antenna Roof Installation with proper grounding 

What a pleasure to see a Professional make a RU-vid video.Much appreciated !

Finally somebody that had installed the on singles foundation step by step . Thanks goodness now I can tell the inexperienced installer exactly how it's too be done and have the parts ready for him. I'm 65 and I'm not climbing on the 10/12 pitch roof . Thanks

I am very thankful for the information that you shared in this video, and I am especially impressed with whoever was your cameraman. I'll bet that job wasn't easy.

Thank you for this video. It really helped me with figuring out how to ground my own antenna setup.

When installing an OTA antenna, I always adjust it for maximum signal on the TV signal strength meter , to minimize interference from passing airplanes, weather etc. Great video.

Best video that I found for a do it yourself. Thank you! Helped me out.

Thanks very nice and great vid quality when showing the close up wiring details.

Very detailed and helpful. Thanks!

Nice instructional video and great tip on the putty membrane

Thank you for making this video. I am a customer service representative at Antop Antenna and this video has been sent to many of my customers!! You are AWESOME!!

Enjoyed your video a lot!

I used to live in Buffalo and we watched the Canadian stations all the time! I sill remember CBLT CFTO and CHCH. Fun to see things from the other side!

Great Video Electroguy.... Thanks for making it...8 years ago.. :)

Installer did a great job.

Nice tutorial. Good tip on the putty, clever product!

Great job. I will share your video.

The only problem is the person using the camera to record this video doesn't know how to adjust the focus. The tech is awesome. THANK YOU!

Finally! A youtuber with a cameraman! ;)

Great install Video. We are in Oakville and get 25 Channels at our Store on the 53-6165V and 31 channels on the 53-6165VA. this antenna is so Good we only sell this 2 Models from EagleStar Again Great Job.

Thanks for taking the time to produce an informative video. FYI... when using a level... horizontal is "level" and vertical is "plumb"... hence the term plumbing as taken from the days when plumb bobs were more common than levels.

I am surprised the CRTC doesn't throw a hissy fit over this kind of thing. Awesome video.

Great info for a friend you helped

Thanks, alot ot very useful information here!

Really good tutorial.

Great video, very informative, but I kept waiting for him to say "Take off, hoser!"

My company has been installing TV antennas for over 40 years. Every install we do we measure signal strengths for all channels at various locations and heights on the roof to make sure we are not installing the antenna in a dead spot for a particular channels. Often times we can double our signal strength by moving an antenna 6’ on the roof. If you don’t believe me then what do you do when you have bad cellphone reception in your house? You walk around until you get reception. These signal meters are expensive but without them you are not guaranteed to put the antenna in the best location.

Great video, I really enjoyed at 3:46 when the little guy next door head went up your nose! lol

Nice presentation. I install FiOS for Frontier Communications (was Verizon) down here in Oregon. That is video, voice and data through fiber optics. I decided to cancel my video service and use OTA, I never have mounted a roof antenna and found your video very informative. Thank you.

Really liked your video. Very clear and informative. I have several questions. I live in Iowa (USA) in a fairly new neighborhood, and have had antenna tv for over 2 years now. The antenna hangs on the inside of my glass deck window. I have gradually gotten fewer channels over time, and I think it's because the bushes around my deck are getting taller. Seems odd, but I have also noticed that reception is effected when we move around the room where the tv is. Since the neighborhood is young, I'm also concerned about my reception as the years go by and the trees all get really tall. So I'm looking at a roof or attic antenna. Not sure how to pick out the "right" one. What model is the one you mounted in the video here? How did you determine where on your roof to place it (not meaning the stud underneath it) and what direction to point it to get the best reception? The chimney close to it isn't going to effect the reception? I also thought there was an awful lot of cable running under the edge of the shingles before it got to the cable box. I have to take a look at the outside of my house to see if we even have one of these. That part seems the scariest and hardest to understand to me. Before we moved here, the resident used DSL, and then we got cable. So we have the option for both for the internet...not sure if that applies to tv though.

0:22, 0:55, Cicada sounds. Always thought they were electrical wires when I was a kid.

Thanks for the video. What type/brand of putty are you using?

What size screws did you use, and do the holes need to be predrilled?

Is there some type of meter showing signal strength that I can connect to antenna on the roof to help with positioning? I don't have a 2nd person w a cell phone to be inside watching signal strength as I adjust.

Is this the antenna that comes with a built-in amplifier? I know that there are two versions

Everything I read tells me the mast needs to be ground with minimum of #8 wire. The ground wire/coaxial combination you used seemed to be considerably smaller? Is it sufficient size to use the included ground in combination with coaxial you used?

The membrane as you call it is called "pitch patch" & the lag screws are for metal roofing (with the rubber grommet washers).

Excellent job. I also install antennas in Durham Region. I install Resisto Red Zone weather-proof membrane under the mounting pole. The stuff works great. Messy in the summer when it's hot. Where can I purchase rolls of RG6 coax with the attached grounding line??? Very difficult to find these days.

I enjoy that he sounds like Mr. Rogers.

The view of the neighborhood gives the impression these folks could afford a basic cable plan to get their local channels. But then I noticed the reform school / glue factory next door 😻

Nice Video. Very Informative. I would suggest not going under the shingles. Breaking that bond from shingle to drip edge will cause water wicking problems in the future.

Did i miss something, the coax ground looked good, however i did not see the ag13 copper wire ground from the mask to a ground block???

Have you tried placing an EagleStar Pro Amplified HDTV antenna without its amplifier (that plugs in the house type not amplified @ the antenna) vs the same antenna but with a mast mounted pre amplifier? Please do a video on that I feel that it would surpass the antennas performance having a pre amplifier at the mast.

You didn't use a ground clamp on the mast, instead you connected directly to the mast. Based on NEC, it should have a ground clamp or that's fine?

Its nice to see pros do things the right way and not half ass fast and cheap.

If you are close to downtown Toronto then it might be best to use a different antenna. This antenna works best outside downtown Toronto.

Great instruction and information for the Toronto area. I have the EagleStar 53-6165CV that I'll soon be mast mounting at about 6 feet above my chimney in Etobicoke. Is it necessary to make sure that the bracket mounting from the antenna to the mast make metal to metal contact? Should paint or finish on the mast be scraped away for adequate electrical contact? Is a small ground screw on the mast (as you have shown) adequate for grounding, rather than a heavy mast grounding clamp? Dielectric grease can cause electrical resistance unless used quite sparingly. The grease will tend to liquify and run out of the fitting under the hot summer sun on the roof. "Plumber's Goop", made in Campbellford, Ontario (sold through Home Hardware) provides a superior weather seal. The Antop equivalent antenna comes with coaxial cable with a rubber boot connection at the antenna and Amazon sells separate weather boots for this purpose.

I much prefer to install this type of mount on the wall. If you don't have to much overhang you can attach it to the top of a gable end wall and get the same overall height. The benefit is that you don't penetrate the roof and won't need to disturb the mount if roof work is needed.

Before the 80's, everybody had antennae. We had a deep fringe Channel Master antenna with a rotor on 4 sections of tower. This put it up over 40 feet high. Anything higher called for guide wires. You had to get it over the height of obstructions the best you could. It looks like you can get more channels and clearer with digital signal. The old analogue signal depended on the weather and other things.

A nice clean installation. Please understand that your grounding work is only a good electrical ground. What you have, will provide little protection from a lightening strike. The most glaring example is the ride uphill a surge will have to make from the cable box to the clamp on the painted hydro/electric meter box. Most lightening likes to travel in one direction, towards the earth. Of course you are in Canada and I’m in Florida, the lightening capital of the globe. So you have a much lower lightening risk.

Is there a reason you didn't just connect the mount to the eve? No roof penetrations, and the wires are further protected from the elements. Also, I thought the strands around RG6 were shielding, but you said it was grounding wire. Could you confirm? Thanks for the great video.

Great informational video. Curious though what happens when roof shingles are replaced.

Looks like you missed the rafter with the upper lag screw when you first installed it. At first the head was flush against the mount, towards the end of the vid It wasn’t flush. Think it’s still sealed ok?

Very helpful. Especially since it looks like the Marathon which I'm thinking of getting. Basic question - maybe I missed it, but where/how do you run the wire for the power booster to a 110 plug? I didn't see that wire/extension being run.

Hello, Iam a professional installer in Greece. Just for information. I noticed you didn't use any meter to point the antenna. What about signal levels? In my country we use different type of antennas for DVB-T.

What model antenna is this? I believe you said an 8 bay antenna, but in searching ebay and amazon, I can't seem to find that specific model or style there. Are they still making that model? Thanks.

Im subscribed. but I would like to see more videos about HDTV antenna instalation. what kind of training do you recommend to do this professionally?

Did you use a signal booster before the coax cable was attached to the back of the tvs in each of the rooms?

I live in the Philippines and we have ISDB-T. is Antop ISDB-T compatible?

What is the name of that putty you use in the installation? I want to get some.

So with the grounding, is the idea that since the antenna is grounded at the base of the antenna and therefore making contact with the coax..... and the coax runs to the side of the house and it is grounded there ..either to the meter or grounding pole in the ground so both are grounded this way? Both the antenna and the coax? Thank you!

Nice video. Thanks! I was surprised to hear you say your antenna did better than an 8 bay bowtie since yours is much smaller. Is your antenna amplified?

Hi Electroguy! Thanks for the nice and informative video. Just a couple quick questions, what size bolts are recommended to secure the mount to the roof? Do you know the website for Eaglestar? I was looking for the manual for the antenna in the video, but wasn't able to find it on some quick searches. Thanks! Jim

Nice install. I also would like to know the make and model of the antenna.

Did those lag bolts actually grab? The mounting plate didn't appear to snug down against the shingles as much as it should have.

What is the cost of the antenna you installed there?.. Also what are the installation costs that u charge?

hi electro guy, thanks for your video, can you tell us what is the model and name of the antenna, thanks

Question: We are in a cold climate, Minnesota USA. Will snow and Ice degrade or stop the signal on a Marathon antenna? Great video thank you.

"HD Antennas" don't exist because they merely pickup an analog carrier which has been modulated with a digital signal. "Non HD" antennas also pickup an analog carrier which has been modulated with an analog signal. So both types of TV transmission both use ANALOG modulated carriers to transmit their programming in either the VHF or UHF bands.

I went out and bought the Home Depot 50 Ft CCS Coaxial/ground combination wire and installed it. When almost done, and having done some electrical work before I looked more closely at the ground portion of the coaxial and it reads 18 AWG. I think the minimum in Canada /USA is supposed to 8 AWG which is considerably thicker. The stuff you're using and the one I initially installed would melt in a 1/1000 th of a second and I think start a fire if lighting actually struck it vs doing what it's supposed to by sending the electricity into the ground. Could you comment?

What kind of putty are you using ?

I already have a dish on the roof with feeds to 4 TVs in the house. Can’t I go up on the roof and just swap the dish with the antenna and use the existing coaxial cable and not touch anything else?

When I was in CATV, grounding to the meter was strictly forbidden. We grounded directly to the ground rod. I would have replaced that ground wire. That old one was looking pretty bad. Give them a fresh one. Get yourself a torque wrench for tightening those F connectors. Then you won't have to worry. Dielectric grease is good, but throw on a rubber weather bootie. They're cheap.

Thanks for the video Electroguy. I am a DIY/home owner in Quebec and looking to install my first antenna in the next days. Your video has help me quite a lot in understanding the entire process ! If you don't mind me asking, why do you ground the antenna AND the cable ? Both grounds are going to Hydro's ground, so if the antenna gets struck by lightning, shouldn't it go through the coaxial cable anyway ? It might be an electrician law/regulation...I don't know. But I'm wondering why both are grounded. Again, thanks for all the details in this video ! :) Thumbs up !!

what is the antenna model.

Taking a shot in the dark here - could you recommend anyone to do a complete install like this across the lake in Webster, NY 14580 ?

The putty you are using is that Butyl Seal Tape?? I am down in Texas so trying to find everything i need to mound an antenna on my roof.

Can grounding an antenna make for clearer sound? I've had some sound distortion and wonder if I'm grounding correctly. I do have both a pre-amp and an amplified distributor.

there are cheap ones but they give you the overall signal for all channels and I never use them. most tv's are not that accurate. I usually just try and point at buffalo for my area because that is where the weakest signals are coming from. There are spectrum analyzers but they are expensive.

what kind of antenna is that, who makes it?

Thanks for the video! Might you be able to link me to some of that putty tape?

There is no such thing as an "HD antenna." Source: Tyler, the Antenna Man.

Hello, I have a question on the Bolts with rubber washers used for mounting the J-Pole mount. What length and size are they, and do you have a source for the bolts??!?? Much Thanks, Tony K. , Melbourne, Florida :o)

To assure that your connections remain clean and the pictures clear, seal your connections with plumbers goop as it will keep all moisture out, the center conductor clean. Pictures on your tv will remain perfect for a good long time, for years to come.

How is this considered properly grounded since there is no actual copper line going to the ground? Where will the energy go once it passes through ground wire to to the mount?

From my house I have broadcast towers 35 miles SE from my house and some opposite 15 miles to the NW, will this antenna get signals from the front and back? If not what kind of antenna would I need in order to receive signals from both directions? Thanks! **I ended up purchasing the antenna in this video, was no good for me, had trouble getting most channels in, replaced it and had big improvement.

I'm picking up stations 150 miles away. I'm in Virginia and getting lots of Philadelphia broadcast

What is the name and model of this particular antenna?

I don't think I would ever screw through shingles. Eventually it's going to leak as many I know have from other people. But lots of people do it I suppose.

Back when the office was running on live tv :(

If I want to hire a pro to do this, for what type of company do I search? An electrician?

OK I was thinking of the channel master and this the marathon I'll guess I need think more about this antenna. .

Do you have a manufacturer and/or model number for the putty tape you used? Thanks!

What do I do if my outdoor antenna has a 12v plug for an amplifier?

Hi whats the name of the outdoor antenna that your putting up?

Good work sir, though I find it weird that you are only getting 20 channels in the Toronto/Buffalo market. In the smaller West Palm Beach market, I get 23 with the indoor Walltenna. That isn't counting the Miami channels which I could get with a roof mounted antenna. That antenna is better than the traditional Channelmasters?

I have the same antenna in my attic in North Oshawa up on the hill and get about 26 channels, 23 watchable to me with our current configuration. I know I could get more if it were on the roof. I have it pointed about south, south east.

Thanks for the video. What is the Model and Brand name of the antenna in the video? In addition the ground depicted isn't legal anywhere in California; I know this due a neighbor was having some work signed off and the building inspector suggested I get it fixed. after I put in the new earth ground rod, AT&T came right away to move their ground for my internet.

Electro guy, difference between the antop 800sbs and this eagle star pro is🤔. If any will you please say✌️ Example will antop 800 SBS pickup hi VHF and range miles of eagle star pro ✌️

I live in Aurora, how many channel we will get? what's the approximate price to install the antenna? Let me know, I'm interested. Thanks.

Not sure why Global broadcasts in HD and SD from Toronto.