Hello,
Hoping for some advice. Recently the cable company (Charter) forced everyone on our system in the Upper Connecticut River Valley of northern NH and VT to get a cable box and changed to "Switched Digital Video" This made many of us very angry. In the days of analogue, we used to be able to receive CBS, ABC, NBC and PBS. Now, those channels are digital (CBS is ch 22; ABC is ch 13; NBC is ch 25--that comes in fairly strong--and ch 14; and PBS is very easy to get on ch 24, ch 18 and ch 48) I get a very snowy analog ABC station from a low power translator about 20 miles away (ch 29 and ch 38) I am most interested in pulling in the stations to the northwest at true 312 degrees... all of that cluster broadcast from the same mountain in northern VT (Mt Mansfield) With the exception of PBS stations and the two translators, all stations are 45 to 55 miles away.
There are two TV Fool reports here... The first from my front deck about 5 feet off the ground where I'm using a Super G 1483 to pick up channels 24 and 25 to the south. The further off the ground I raise the antenna, the lower the signal. A Winegard HD9032 also works well in that location.
The second TV Fool report is from my barn roof where old antennas were mounted in the days before cable. I haven't actually climbed up there to test yet. Any advice would be appreciated. The antennas I already own:
Winegard HD9032, Winegard HD 7697P, Super G 1483--rather flimsy; I couldn't picture mounting it on the roof!
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