Please help with Antenna choice

[LDPerry]

Please advise on my antenna options.

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d60b5ee33db3da0


My first choice is to have an antenna in the attic since we often get a lot of wind from the river and across the fields. There are no trees or buildings around the house except for a line of trees 100 ft away on the edge of the river. Mostly 30-40 ft tall and to SW, W and NW. I tried a RCA ANT751 from Walmart and it does OK picking up Virtual channels 65.1, 8.1, 35.1, 6.1, 23.1 either inside or outside at about 6 ft above ground level and pointed roughly SW. Is there any hope for getting any of the weaker channels? Especially those to the NW?
An antenna in the attic would be at either 15 ft or 25 ft. The roof is 1/2 in ply with felt paper and heavy 50 yr shingles. Nothing other than the roof to obstruct a signal getting into the attic. We are pre-wired with coax feeds to 5 rooms from the crawl space. Will amplification be required? I have a RCA 10db amp from Lowes attached to the RCA antenna serving just one TV and it helped with drop-outs and stutter on some of the channels above but did not add any channels.
Thanks in advance for your guidance.

[LDPerry]

I fixed the link to Signal Analysis.

[Billiam]

Those signals are too weak to be received with even a large indoor antenna in my opinion. You may be able to do it with a pre amp like the Winegard 8275 or Channel Master 7777 but I sincerely believe you will need to mount a large VHF Hi and UHF antenna with a pre amp on your roof to obtain most of the signals in red.

I'd recommend the HBU 55 from Antennacraft or Winegard 7698 for this situation. Either antenna combined with the pre amps I mentioned should give you ever signal down to the NBC channel as long as the antenna is mounted up on the roof.

[GroundUrMast]

I agree with Billiam. The signal levels shown in your TV Fool report call for a high performance outdoor antenna.

I would choose a 5' heavy duty tripod, a 10' heavy duty mast section, a Winegard HD7698P and an Antennas Direct CPA-18 preamp.

[LDPerry]

Thank you Billiam and Ground for the advice.
Another ? - Can I get FM on the same antenna?

[GroundUrMast]

The antennas designed for reception of channels 7-69 will provide some reception of FM signals. You can certainly try running a drop off the splitter to your FM receiver.

I would generally favor a separate FM antenna cabled to the FM receiver, independent of the television antenna system.

You can run an FM Fool report for your location and post the image of that report here. If you have one or more strong FM signals nearby, you may need to include an FM trap in the TV antenna system to protect the preamp from overload. If that's your situation, the only practical approach would be separate TV and FM antenna systems.

[John Candle]

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