I have been a Comcast cable customer for over seven years. I have always owned my own router/gateway and always resented not being able to own my own DVR,.
I decided to drop Cable TV and go with Over the air TV.
My local transmission towers are all about 6.6 miles East of my home.
My home has a Tin roof. There is a Brick building directly East of my home that is 20 feet taller than the Chimney. which is about 36 feet high.
According to the FCC website
Http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/maps,the lattitude and longitude of my location is: 40.723128,74.075489.
I had a RadioShack Rabbit-Ears antenna gathering dust, hooked it up and got almost all of my local stations.
I contacted a vendor, requested help in choosing an antenna, and purchased the Spectrum 8 SP-813 for $129.
I placed it at the same location as the Rabbit ears antenna, Indoors, facing Northeast, in front of a window facing North. There is currently no difference in TV reception. I am still playing Hide and seek with my local PBS CBS and NBC stations!
I am including the Tech data of the antenna and want to know if a J-mount attached to the side of my home (with my antenna attached to it) will noticeably improve my reception.
Frequency Range VHF 87.5 to 230 MHZ and UHF 470 to 862MHZ
The antenna Gain is 40db with an output level of 100dBuV there is a noise figure of 3.5db
The Antenna runs to the power supply (with four outputs) are by standard 75 ohm cable, and do not exceed 50 feet.
Help! Help! Help!