Hello all. My father-in-law has a summer place in upstate NY. I'm trying to help him with his TV reception.
He currently has a Yagi type antenna mounted about 15' up. It's right next to the TV and the distance from the antenna to the TV is not far.
When we pointed his antenna to 139 degrees we were able to pick up the top ten channels from the TVFool.com
report
2.1
3.1, 3.2
5.1, 5.2
6.1
10.1
12.1
22.1, 22.2
33.1, 33.2, 33.3, 33.4
57.1, 57.2, 57.3
Then we mounted a homemade bowtie style antenna that I made following the instructions in this
youtube video. With my homemade antenna we were able to get two additional channels.
15.1, 15.2 (Global Montreal - 22 degrees)
44.1 and 44.2. (Fox - 139 degrees)
We also tried aiming both antennas towards Sherbrooke (85") and a couple of other public television stations in nearby Vermont to see if we could get anything else on the channel list but with no luck.
My father-in-law is happy with the result because he has two more channels. But channel 5 (NBC) is still a bit sketchy, and Global 15 was hit or miss.
Since my homemade antenna did a reasonable job, I'm thinking of getting an inexpensive digiwave multidirectional antenna. I also want to get an additional signal amplifier so I can put one on each antenna, and then combine the two signals into one cable. Then try pointing the Yagi and the multidirectional bowtie in different directions to get a good lock on all his favorite channels.
That's the plan. What is the opinion on these cheap antennas? Is there a considerable difference between ant-7287 and ant-7293?
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...46aec34cc8d34a
New/exact radar map and channel list