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Old 31-May-2015, 12:54 AM   #2
rabbit73
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Welcome to the forum, CWGriswold:

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I'd like to hit 23.1 (Fox)
No chance for that, WPFO is way too weak, but Fox is available on WVII real channel 7, and WFVX real channel 22.

http://www.rabbitears.info/market.ph...&callsign=wabi

click on the call signs to see the subchannels.

See Attachment No. 1 for added networks

NBC is going to be a problem. It is on real channels 2 and 4, which are VHF-Low channels that require BIG antennas.

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Low VHF (2-6) digital broadcasts are particularly prone to interference and is often hard to receive reliably, regardless of what model of antenna is used. Note: The physical size of low VHF and high VHF antennas is much larger than that of a UHF antenna.
https://www.antennasdirect.com/faqs.html

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My question is mainly on how to get these channels since they are mostly in opposite directions.
Yeah, it's not going to be easy. It will take a while to figure it out.

A lot of your signals are 2Edge, which means that there are terrain obstacles in the signal path that cause interference, making reception less reliable. You can see what the terrain profile looks like if you click on a call sign in your tvfool report. The transmitter is on the left end, and your location is on the right.

I see a lot of trees in your area. See Attachment No. 2. If you can't get you antenna above the trees, you will have reception problems, especially with UHF signals, real channels 14-51.

http://www.hdtvprimer.com/antennas/siting.html
scroll down to Trees and UHF
sometimes the link doesn't work
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