[ADTech]

Lara,

I looked closely at your location and its surroundings. My best description of your area is going to be "experimental". From what I see, there is no reliable prediction of reliable reception (24/7/365) for anything, due primarily to trees. Most likely, you'll be able to get very good reception during the seasons when the leaves are off the trees but not when they fully leaf out. When they're wet and the wind blows, I'd expect nothing but sporadic service.

Your signal path towards St Louis has a hill about 3/4 of a mile away that's about 250 higher than your elevation. Adding insult to injury, that single tree by the highway on the east side of your drive blocks the exact (and only) signal path towards St Louis. If it were turned into firewood, your odds would increase dramatically....

Your signal path towards the Illinois station appears to have a line of trees behind the pond that's in that path.

There is a fair chance of picking up the two VHF stations out of Quincy. While there are trees in that direction also, VHF signals are less adversely affected by foliage and you "might" find something there.

If you're up to the "experiment", I'll be happy to make specific recommendations.

Please note that I can only make observations based on data available with publicly available aerial photos and topographical maps, so I cannot actually stand on your rooftop and see the exact height of any of the trees, for example. If the trees are lower than a potential mounting location but I can't see that, then my estimates will lean towards being more pessimistic.

BTW, we used to spend a lot of time up in Elsberry. My wife's family owned property along one of the sloughs for many years and we did a lot of boating in the area around Hamburg. We still boat up there from Alton pool occasionally by locking through at Winfield. Beautiful stretch of river.