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Honestly, I'd try the VHF bow-tie first. You're in the situation for UHF that you don't need much gain and you need a practically omnidirectional antenna. Fortunately, those properties go together, and that's apparently how the elements inside the MANT are behaving. Stepping up to a more directive antenna, even the smallest from the commercial vendors, will no longer get both markets at once. You'll have to get a rotator or two antennas, and you'll only catch a couple more channels. The bow-tie will fix WOIO and WJW and maybe deliver reliable reception of WTOV (9) and, on occasion, WTRF (7).
The above advice is predicated on you getting acceptable UHF reception from stations as weak as WFMJ (NBC Youngstown).
Last edited by Dave Loudin; 17-Mar-2010 at 2:20 PM.
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