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Old 7-Sep-2011, 3:19 AM   #12
Tigerbangs
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I live next door in Springfield, and know a little but about East Longmeadow reception...LOL
Most of the TV lies southwest of you in Hartford, but you probably want the Springfield stations, too. Springfield transmitters are scattered: WWLP (NBC) operates on digital channel 11, and transmits from Provin Mountain in Feeding Hills, WGGB (ABC)and (FOX) plus WGBY (PBS) come from Mt Tom in Holyoke, in a different direction: The Hartford stations are easy to get in East Longmeadow, and all lie pretty much in a straight line southwest of you. WCCT is Hartford's CW station, and it's easy to get. What to do?

If you only use the antenna with one TV set, your best bet is a good VHF-high Band plus UHF antenna mounted on your roof with a rotator. You will have to turn the antenna between Hartford and Springfield, but everything will come in just fine.

Good choices wold be a new Winegard HD-7695P or an AntennaCraft HBU-33, using all new RG-6u coaxial cable and an automatic rotator like a Channel Master 9521a, which allow you to pre-program into it the settings for Hartford and Springfield, and call them up via remote control. The situation is a but more difficult if you run multiple TV sets from the same antenna, but we can help you with that if you let us know how many TV sets you will be using.

Last edited by Tigerbangs; 7-Sep-2011 at 3:25 AM.
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