Second try at this

[rcostello]

Using 'start maps' I put in my coordinates and what came up was at least 20+ miles east of my location. The coordinates I typed in were what Google has me at and my Garmin Nuvi Satellite Navigator indicates. This is where TV fool placed me.

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=90

I dragged the pointer to the spot of our home on your topo map location but the coordinates can't be right. However the radar diagram is closer to one I got off AntennaWeb. The new readout is as follows

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d9fbe00e0c48ac5

My questions are: what antenna recommendations might someone want to give me. Can the analysis be trusted? Anyone care to comment?

I have decided to place a poll on the north side of my home and put a rotator on it. I can easily get the antenna 20+ feet off the ground and have a 360 degree sweep available. If we assume the TVFool analysis is correct (even if the coordinates shown are wrong) there are quite a lot of stations within my range. I never would have guessed it.. We are 23 miles from everything.

Dick Costello

[Dave Loudin]

You might be interested in a set-and-forget kind of installation, as a lot of the stations you can pick up are low-power stations or translators. For a fixed installation, the challenge is trying to get your NBC affiliate from the NNW while picking up everything else from the SSW. If you're interested in a DIY solution, as someone was alluding to in your other thread, go to this site (http://m4antenna.eastmasonvilleweather.com/index.html) and check out the plans for a 4-bay bowtie with 9.5" whiskers and 9" bay spacing without a reflector. Going without a reflector is key, and you can't buy a bowtie array without one.

Sticking with a rotator, I'd recommend a Winegard HD7696P or an AntennaCraft HBU-44. You need the VHF capability for the PBS station.

[John Candle]

At http://solidsignal.com the Winegard HD7696P,antenna and the Eagle Aspen ROTR100 antenna rotator

[Dave Loudin]

I'm not sure why the coordinates don't work right. The map that you interact with is actually a Google map, so coordinates via maps.google.com should be in the same place as at this site. As far as trusting the second analysis, do the distances and azimuths to the various stations seem right?