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There is no room to place a VHF above the UHF antenna, can I place it on a separate mast near the UFH antenna?
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I think that would work, as long as the antennas are side-by-side instead of one in front of the other.
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I have a combiner on the antenna, because of the VHF accessory antenna I bought from Antenna direct.
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There are 3 versions of combining that they have used for the VHF kit.
ADTech can help you with that if he sees this.
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Also, this sounds really dumb, I used my iPhone's compass to set the direction. I set the UHF to about 220 degrees. What do you mean by setting to true north?
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That wasn't dumb to try to use the iPhone compass, but the compass in some smart phones isn't very accurate; better to use a regular pocket compass.
If you look at your tvfool report you will see two columns for antenna azimuth, true and magnetic. If you use a compass to aim the antenna, use the magnetic number and that will be the same as the true north reading as shown by the green signal lines on the tvfool interactive map. The difference between the two numbers is called the magnetic declination, and it varies according to location.
I picked a house in your area as an example. If it happens to be your house, it is a coincidence. You can use the green line and a landmark for aim. You can do your own green lines here by moving the cursor to the antenna location:
http://www.tvfool.com/index.php?opti...pper&Itemid=90
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Is the signal straight tester something expensive?
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Some TVs have a signal strength indicator in the menu that will help you find the antenna location for the strongest CBC signal. After some testing, you will find out how weak a signal can be on that scale and still be received.
Your SiliconDust HDHR has a signal monitor feature that gives signal strength, signal quality (SNR), and symbol quality (lack of errors).