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Old 24-Aug-2012, 2:34 PM   #1
ococean
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Antenna for Coastal Delaware (or Maryland)

Hi everyone, I would greatly appreciate some assistance in helping me to determine which antenna I should use. Here is my signal analysis:

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...99004b85f018c2

The channels that I am primarily interested in receiving are:

Callsign - Channel - NM (db) - Dist - Azimuth

WBOC-DT - 21 - 31.4 - 31.8 - 269 (281)
WCPB-DT - 28 - 23.8 - 30.3 - 254 (265)
WMDT-DT - 47 - 21.0 - 36.8 - 269 (281)
WDPB-DT - 44 - 18.9 - 31.6 - 288 (300)

The channels that I would also like to receive, but realize that it might not be possible (due to the azimuth) are:

Callsign - Channel - NM (db) - Dist - Azimuth

WRDE-LD - 31 - 35.6 - 15.4 - 330 (341)
WMGM-DT - 36 - 12.3 - 45.1 - 20 (32)

All other channels are not of any importance.

I'm located on the Delaware coast (near Bethany Beach, north of Ocean City, MD), and would prefer to not use an outdoor or roof-mounted antenna due to issues with both wind and salt. The one exception to this is the Winegard SS-2000, which from reading here I see another user has had success with in my area. Mounting an antenna in the attic would be fine (2-story house with attic above), as well as using an indoor antenna.

So, my questions are as follows, is the Winegard SS-2000 my best option? Would I be better off with a more traditional antenna mounted in the attic? What wiring will I need to connect this to my system? (it will either feed an HDTV or a dual-tuner TV tuner card)

Thanks in advance for any help and information you can provide, and a big thank you for the signal analysis tool, it's a tremendous help.
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