Thanks for the feedback. Looks like I may have to do without WNYA since a tower in my backyard doesn't appeal to me. With one of those roof mounts I can get the antenna to about 30 ft off the ground. At that height WNYA has an NM of -8.8. The next weakest signal is WMHT at -5.3 which is probaby on the fringe.
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...cc49adff8a4444.
On a related note, looking at the HD7084P I see different gain values for each channel. So would I take the NM value from the report and add the channel specific dB gain to see what is the predicted signal that channel will come in at? Reference
http://www.tvantenna.com/products/tv.../HD-7084P.html
I also see one page listing the gain as 14.6 dBi m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail.jsp?skuId=4529592&pid=1218480929549.
I understand how to work with the single gain value but not sure how to interpret the channel gain numbers.
Also, if I ran the cable from the antenna to a say a 4-tuner network card installed in a PC does that eliminate the need for a preamp or does the tuner have the same effect on the signal as a splitter would? The cable run would be 30ft or less.