trublue, you need to either post in the right Montreal thread in the French forum I pointed you to at DigitalHome or go here
http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=129 and choose the right Montreal thread in English. You will need to post the link to your TVFool report, also.
Don't post in a satellite thread! Over the air television is completely different.
If you don't heed any other advice, try starting with a simple loop and bunny ear combination like
this one at The Source. Don't buy anything that amplifies or has a tuning knob. Connect it to your converter box. If that doesn't work, the HDTVi would be the next step.
By the way, you do need to be receiving the digital, mostly HD, signals. The converter box reformats to analog 480i that your TV can display.
To everyone else, most, if not all analog broadcasting is off in Montreal. trublu does not need channels 2 - 6.