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Old 14-Mar-2014, 6:32 PM   #5
stvcmty
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Originally Posted by ajia View Post
Here's my analysis:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...5b9420bbce5b8b

Though I am a bit skeptical because it shows the L.A. stations at 70 miles away as only needing "An indoor "set-top" antenna is probably sufficient to pick up these channels"
The analysis was generated at 25’. To see what would be more reasonable for an indoor antenna at a TV on the first floor, run an analysis at about 6’.


If you want a “check” for the TV fool model results, you could go to http://www.rabbitears.info/search.php and put in your zip, an 80 or 100 mile radius, your address, turn on the signal strength option, and put in the height you want to put your antenna at. Then compare the dBm column from rabbit ears with the Pwr (dBm) column from TV fool. I have seen differences from a tenth of a dBm to 16dBm. In my experience Rabbit Ears is less optimistic about what gets a LOS path, which could push stations from easy to get to requiring some work to get.


The antenna you describe is an example of a company selling junk to vulnerable consumers.


Given the extreme distance between you and the transmitters, I would either put up a HD7698P or a DB8e and an Y10-7-13 with a UVSJ pointed at 80 degrees magnetic.

KUHD analog on RF6 is probably being used as a radio station, so I doubt you need a VHF Low antenna. (If you look for K02RB (RF 2) in the FCC database, it is not there. If you look up KVTU (RF 3) in the FCC database, they have multiple applications in so their long term future on channel 3 is questionable, rabbit ears has them listed as off air. Long term, the effort for a VHF-low antenna pointed at Los Angeles is not justified by the low power stations on chs 2-6)
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