Greetings,
Indoors antennas are only an option in the strong signal areas. You have good strength of signal, however as it has been pointed out, your instability of reception with the current indoor antenna does not bode well. Secondly, also as has been pointed out ABC and MeTV broadcast on L-VHF which your antenna does not support. Philadelphia requires an all band antenna for full network coverage.
This disqualifies you from the smaller compact outdoor antennas like the RCA ANT751 or the HBU11. They are designed for channels 7-51. You need channels 2-51 which means larger antenna.
The good news is that you don't need one of the old 16 foot long channel master behemoths. An Antennacraft 5884 all band VHF/UHF antenna ought to serve you well. It is just under 5' long and is a suburban application all band VHF/UHF antenna. Its size is due to the larger elements needed for channels 2 - 6 support.
http://www.antennacraft.net/pdfs/5884.pdf
This antenna has a lovely wide "net" of receiving off the front. Pointing at about magnetic 225 (SW) I'd expect the majority of Philadelphia's broadcasts down to WFMZ at 22 db signal strength. You may do better, however if I were installing, this would be my baseline.
A chimney mount would be ideal due to the antenna's physical size. Make sure to mount free of obstructions and trees if possible. Trees are bad business for television signals. Even with the best antenna, trees or obstructions and reduce your reception to unreliable due to poor signal availability at the antenna.
How many TVs do you intend to serve?
Lastly, I'd return the amazon antenna. It is the wrong type of antenna for the Philadelphia market.
Cheers.
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Originally Posted by jcrock88
Thank you for replying. I live in a single home that we own.
I literally just got it. I was going by the report, but admittedly I didn't understand all of it. It seemed to say I could get away with a indoor antenna.
Is there ANY option for an indoor antenna that you think would work? I wanted to have this working by tonight so I could watch the eagles haha. It seems that FOX is the one channel giving me the biggest headache so far.
I guess a directional instead of multi directional wouldn't help much?
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