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Old 12-Dec-2012, 11:46 PM   #1
spoth
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Help with antenna selection for new house.

Hello,

My good friends are moving into a new home in Tonawanda, NY that has an interesting broadcast TV environment. The results of the TV signal analysis can be found here:

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...cc49cbcd52116c

We'd like to receive all of the local UHF channels that make it into the green region, along with mainly CBLT from Toronto. We could live without ION (23, outlier from other stations) and WBBZ (VHF).

Since they'd like to use a TiVo, I'd like to avoid a rotator, so I suspect I'd have to set up a directional antenna pointing northwest for those stations and find an antenna with a wide enough beamwidth to receive the local stations. I do not know how to combine these two antennas together, however. I found the Channel Master Jointenna, but it appears to be discontinued.

The house is two stories and an attic, and faces southeast. If at all possible, we'd like to avoid antennas on the front of the home.

My best guess was a ClearStream 2 in the attic (about 25 feet up) pointing southwest, and a 91XG on the roof pointing northwest. I wasn't sure if a preamp would be necessary, and I have no particular preference for Antennas Direct equipment either. At the moment, I'm only planning on running the antenna feed to one location.

Thank you very much for your help.

Jim

Last edited by spoth; 13-Dec-2012 at 12:33 AM. Reason: Forgot to mention I don't need VHF.
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