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ChannelMaster FLATenna 35 (mod. CM 4001 HD) in the hopes THAT will improve my signal capturing ability.
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Don't get your hopes up; I doubt that it will do any better than the RCA; it's just another flat antenna. I hope that you are buying antennas that can be returned, otherwise you are going to waste a lot of money.
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Failing that, then I will have to escalate to the 50.00 CM antenna.
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What model is that, this one?
http://www.channelmaster.com/SMARTen.../cm-3000hd.htm
The channels that you want are VHF-High channels, real channels 7-13. Flat antennas don't do very well with VHF-High signals.
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The reason I subsume, that I was given this list of channels is because they are channels whose signals were detected by the combination of my extant antenna, pre-amp and TV tuner/dongle which were then fed into Window's Media Center software.
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AFAIK, that list was based on your ZIP Code. WMC doesn't know that you are buying antennas that aren't very good for VHF-High channels. WMC doesn't know that you don't have an antenna for real channel 5. WMC doesn't know that your antenna is indoors.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...ls+from+zap2it
how to add missing channels to windows media center
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...s+media+center
Did you work out an arrangement with ADTech by PM for a suitable antenna?
Are you willing to experiment with a DIY folded dipole antenna for your most wanted channels?
http://users.wfu.edu/matthews/misc/dipole.html
CH11, 198-204 MHz, center frequency 201 MHZ
5540/291 = 27.6 inches long for dipole
CH5, 76-82 MHz, center frequency 79 MHz
5540/79 = 70.1 inches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_...on_frequencies
or would rather experiment with an antenna that you can return like the GE 24792 Attic Antenna, which Walmart has or
http://www.amazon.com/GE-24792-Anten...+attic+antenna
No guarantee it will work which is why you need to be able to return it.
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I don't know the correct terminology - 'sub-channels'?
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Correct
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KCWI (f.k.a. KDMI) as channel 19 and its sub channels - which for reasons that are completely obscure to me, show up again as channel 23 and its sub-channels,
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Click on this link
http://www.rabbitears.info/search.ph...pe=dBm&height=
and click on KDMI