Greetings!
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So I ran GroundUrMast's a-b-c method last night to quantize my reception, and had some interesting results. My goal is to pull the "big 4" (ABC,NBC,CBS,Fox) + PBS and Ion would be nice but not required. Of those, I was able to pull:
KPXG-TB 22 (75% nominal)
KATU-TV 43 (56% nominal)
KGW 8 (77% Nominal)
What was interesting to me is I was able to pull the low end of the VHF Hi band but received blackouts on 10 and 12 with similar NM and identical transmitter locations.
I built this antenna and am currently using it indoors (Living room only, HAG ~15ft). The antenna is currently obstructed by a fir tree (tall, distance 30 ft) to the north and my exterior wall. It would be possible to position an antenna around the tree, but there are additional trees in the distance.
ApeWeek Dual Bowtie Antenna
At this point, I am wondering if it might be worthwhile to place it in the attic, I am also going to test the antenna's radiance via network analyzer (EE by trade) to see if there are any obvious reasons why I might be missing 10 & 12, but I also wanted to ping the forum for other ideas. Do you guys think that I might be better served by a Yagi setup mounted externally in this case? If that were the case I suppose I should just target a ch 22 center frequency then?
Thanks in advance for your advice and help!