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looking for a new outdoor antenna

TheDingo

TheDingo

I've recently gotten a new HDTV, and i'm looking to upgrade from my FM only outdoor antenna to a full VHF/UHF/FM antenna, only problem is, the only antenna I've found with the reception I want, is 160" long, nearly half the lenght of the pole it's going to be mounted on

http://www.radioshack.com/product/i...nnas&x=9&s=D-StorePrice-RSK&parentPage=search

with 190 mile VHF reception and 100 mile UHF & FM that would be the perfect antenna, other than it's enormous lenght

what I'm trying to find, is something with as close to those specs as possible, but 80" or less boom lenght (around 6 and a half ft)
 
Most likely, all you need is a UHF antenna for HD---most HD stations are UHF and the few VHF digital stations are mostly upper band (channels 7-13) and can usually be recieved fine with a UHF antenna. The cool thing about UHF antennas is even a deep fringe model is relatively small. Also, a UHF only model will be much more sensitive than even the largest VHF/UHF combo.
 
you will not see 190 mile VHF reception and 100 mile UHF roof mounted or just above the roof...

this is only going to happen if your high enough.. somewhere above at least 40 feet is a good start... course this depends on terrain
 
160" long? We boys do like our big toys lol

I once put that antenna on the roof at a radio station I worked for... took alot longe rto put it together then the installing it on the roof

i think I recall we put it together in pieces on the ground then carried it up in semi put together parts.
 
Be sure to check the FCC web site for your local stations to make sure that no DTV station will remain on VHF after February 2009. After the "analog sunset" many stations are relocating back to their original High-band VHF assignments (7 -13). A select few have even elected to stick with Low-band VHF channels (IMHO a ridiculous choice over VHF-Hi, but they have their reasons). Where I live, which includes the Chicago market, WLS-DT is relocating from 52 back to 7, WBBM is leaving 2 (analog) and 3 (digital) for 11, and WWTO-DT LaSalle is sticking with their digital assignment 10.
 
Philip J. Smith said:
Be sure to check the FCC web site for your local stations to make sure that no DTV station will remain on VHF after February 2009. After the "analog sunset" many stations are relocating back to their original High-band VHF assignments (7 -13). A select few have even elected to stick with Low-band VHF channels (IMHO a ridiculous choice over VHF-Hi, but they have their reasons). Where I live, which includes the Chicago market, WLS-DT is relocating from 52 back to 7, WBBM is leaving 2 (analog) and 3 (digital) for 11, and WWTO-DT LaSalle is sticking with their digital assignment 10.
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We actually don't have a single VHF station here to begin with, other than a single LP staton on 11. it's always been 15, 19, 25, 31, 48 and 54 for analog, and all of them have their DT very close to the original channel except for 54 that is on 41, and 19 on 59.

I just got out there and put a pole mounted signal amp on the FM only antenna, and it started picking up a single analog station from Mobile, (WEIQ 42) from 360 miles away, but it faded out an hour later. Kind of an unexpected catch, while I was trying to see if it could bring in WIAT 42 from Birmingham (100 miles away) WEIQ-DT is on 41, as is the local WZDX-DT, while I was getting WEIQ analog, I checked WZDX-DT and it was having very frequent drop outs and pixelation
 
In your area, I doubt that any stations will move to VHF, then... But it's not impossible. The Chicago area never had anything on 12 (analog nor digital) but 12 will be brought into service in February 2009 to accomodate some relocations that will result from everyone having to evacuate 52 through 69. Chances are that for your market, 59 will revert back to 19, and all of the other stations will stick with their in-core UHF channels.
 
Philip J. Smith said:
In your area, I doubt that any stations will move to VHF, then... But it's not impossible. The Chicago area never had anything on 12 (analog nor digital) but 12 will be brought into service in February 2009 to accomodate some relocations that will result from everyone having to evacuate 52 through 69. Chances are that for your market, 59 will revert back to 19, and all of the other stations will stick with their in-core UHF channels.
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Huntsville final DTV channel assignments:
WAAY-31
WAFF-49
WHIQ-24
WHNT-19
WZDX-41
WHDF-14
WYLE-20
WFIQ-22

An exceedingly superficial scan of the table shows six markets where all analog stations are UHF but there will be a VHF DTV. Closest to Huntsville would be Lexington, Kentucky where WKYT-27's digital is on and will remain on channel 13. In Bakersfield, Cal., KERO-TV gets to move back to the channel 10 assignment they were ordered to vacate in 1953...
 
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