I am failing to get reception from KERA TV channel 14 in dallas Texas. my TVFool.com radar plot
here indicates my home town of mesquite is about 25miles from the station. That with a set top ant. i should get this station. well the little coby tv in my upstairs BR cannot get this station but the bigger one in LR pick it up just fine.
i am using home made youtube coat hanger antenna mounted in the attic. i have added a dipole antenna on top of it (rabbit ears antenna). but it's not helping as yet with kera. however, all the other channels have an extremely strong signal.
my understanding is the youtube antenna is a uhf ant. and has no vhf solution/cabability. i have been searching for a vhf solution. i came across this
page which indicates how to build a simple dipole antenna. i am thinking i should move the dipole further in the attic to be on it's own, i don't know if this will this help?
i need help to find the exact measurements i should use for this ant.
or if you do have a different way to effect a vhf solution please let me know.
btw tvfool.com shows it as channel 14 and my tv downstairs indicates kera as ch 13.1 (it used to be channel 13 before dtv transition). i don't know what is it's transmission frequency, etc.
this is the antenna type that i built. i only added rabbit ears at the top
