San Diego is a 2-antenna market: the VHF stations (channels 8 and 10) lie almost due west of you, and the UHF stations (NBC, PBS and FOX) lie south of you. Even though you are fairly high on a mountain, your TV signals are somewhat blocked by hills between the transmitters and you, meaning that you will need larger antennas than would be needed in flat terrain.
I would use a Winegard YA-6713, or an AntennaCraft Y-5-7-13 VHF high-band yagi antenna aimed at 260 degrees by your compass for channels 8 and 10. I would mount an AntennasDirect Xg-91 UHF antenna on the same mast, mounted 4' above the VHF antenna, aimed at 190 degrees, as measured by your compass. Combine the 2 signals using an AntennaCraft 10G221 high-input preamplifier, which has separate inputs for the VHF and UHF antennas, and is powerful enough to run 4 TV sets from the antenna system with no line or splitting losses.
After the power supply is mounted inside your house, use a high-quality 4-way splitter in line AFTER the power supply, then make your coaxial cable ruins to your TV sets. If your house is already wired with coax cable, identify where in the house the cables converge, mount the preamp power supply and splitter there, bring in your coaxial cable line from the antenna, and make your connections to the various TV sets at that point.
I expect that you'll have no problems seeing the major San Diego stations using that system, however, XETV, the CW station, which operates from over the border in Mexico may be difficult to receive .
In my estimation, no one antenna will adequately see the VHF and VHF antennas without using a rotator: a compromise position between the two sets of transmitters is unlikely to give you enough signal on NBC, PBS and FOX to work reliably.
Last edited by Tigerbangs; 26-Oct-2010 at 7:33 PM.
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