Update!
Thank you folks! Your recommendations bore tasty fruit:
Posting the DB8 4' high on a temporary post out in the front yard,
pointing it imprecisely, we picked up 31 digital stations and 2 analog!
I'm not sure just yet if we picked up our New Haven ABC affiliate,
a VHF channel ( yeah, I know we shouldn't get it ) but we got all
channels on our wish list plus several that we thought had no chance
of receiving:
GetTV, The Works, and up to three PBS stations.
What's really cool is the possibility of getting GetTV from Manhattan,
well over the antenna's 70 mile specs – and the antenna's not even
mounted on the roof yet! ( I've checked on Get's transmitter, the only
info I have is it's on the Empire State Building. The station is in Smithtown
New York, so I assume the signal may be "goosed" there but I've not seen
anything online indicating such. ) We're also picking up PBS out of Springfield
Mass, a transmitter up in Holyoke. We're very positively impressed with our
results thus far. Even if nothing improves on the roof, it's all good. In fact,
there's a chance some signals may suffer once the reflectors are more in
line with tree leaves ... who knows?
We can't thank you enough in your guidance. Cheers!
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