Hello Matter,
Yes, we quick draw around here, lol.
Your reception of Tri-Cities is much better than your plot suggests. Just going by your plot, I'd have little to no hope of anything other than KFFX. Receiving KNDU (where I worked for awhile in the 90s), KVEW and KTNW is fantastic.
As to specific TV broadcast bands there are three: low band VHF channels are 2-6, high band VHF channels are 7-13 and UHF is 14 and above.
With the exception of KFFX, you are dealing with UHF signals.
With your better than expected reception off Jump Off Joe (KNDU, KVEW, KTNW) with the 4221, GroundUrMast's suggestion of an Antenna's Direct 91xg and Antennacraft Y10-7-13 pointed to the Tri-Cities may yield you better results than your plot suggests.
With the TVPRAMP1R, you may find you see the translators off the side as well. With my 91xg I see all of my Spokane signals off the rear quarter @ 16 miles.
It all depends which are your priority signals. To focus on the Tri-Cities, you may only see a couple of the Wenatchee area translators if you do the 91xg and Y10-7-13 pointed at Kennewick. Is your focus Kennewick or Wenatchee?
The digital world of TV is all or nothing in terms of reception unlike the old analog fade to snowy oblivion. In digital, if you decode the signal with enough strength it'll look amazing (assuming you aren't watching ION with SIX subchannels, then that's a compression issue). Digital reception is either there or it isn't. There is no fade.
SS
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Originally Posted by matter
Wow, thanks for all the speedy responses! Unfortunately I am a bit stupid about much of this and am somewhat confused. I have my antenna aimed at around 139 deg. and that is about where I had the old one. My old one actually worked pretty good but I hoped I could make it better so I decided to open this can of worms.
StephanieS you are correct as to what my goals are (I think) as wanting a modern preamp but not knowing what one. Also I don't know how you tell channel 11 is VHF by the chart. It has always came in pretty good so I assumed it was UHF. Also I get a bit confused also matching the channels from my tv together with the radar chart.
I just did a channel scan and currently I am getting channels 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 25.1, 25.3, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 39.1 thru 39.7, 42.1 and 42.2. I guess I am not sure what I am getting from where really. They are all pretty much Tri Cities though. I guess I am thinking putting on a preamp and see what I have? The channels I do get seem much cleaner than the 20 year old UHF antenna I replaced. The KVEW 42.1, 42.2 actually comes in very good right now.
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