Omard.

HD Antenna

This is the results I get from Antennaweb.com

* yellow - uhf WPWR-DT 50.1 UPN GARY IN 73? 8.8 51
* yellow - uhf WSNS-DT 44.1 TEL CHICAGO IL 73? 8.8 45
* yellow - uhf WYCC-DT 20.1 PBS Chicago IL 66? 10.0 21
* yellow - uhf WTTW-DT 11.1 PBS Chicago IL 73? 8.8 47
* yellow - uhf WLS-DT 7.1 ABC Chicago IL 73? 8.8 52
* yellow - uhf WMAQ-DT 5.1 NBC Chicago IL 73? 8.8 29
* yellow - uhf WJYS-DT 36.1 REL HAMMOND IN 73? 8.8 36
* yellow - uhf WGBO-DT 66.1 UNI JOLIET IL 66? 10.0 53
* yellow - uhf WXFT-DT 60.1 TFA AURORA IL 73? 8.9 59
* yellow - uhf WFLD-DT 32.1 FOX Chicago IL 73? 8.8 31
* yellow - uhf WCIU-DT 26.1 IND Chicago IL 73? 8.8 27
* yellow - uhf WCPX-DT 38.1 PAX Chicago IL 73? 8.9 43
* yellow - uhf WGN-DT 9.1 WB CHICAGO IL 73? 8.8 19
* yellow - vhf WBBM-DT 2.1 CBS Chicago IL 66? 10.0 3
* blue - uhf WYIN-DT 17 PBS Gary IN FCC Ext 151? 39.4 17

yellow means small multi-directional antenna

What would be the best Antenna fro me to get?

John S

Indoor or outdoor???


Indoor, I am having great luck with standard powered indoor antennas that do both VHF and UHF....

Robert_J

Just stay away from Terk. Radio Shack, Wingard and Channel Master make quality products.

-Robert

Eric_Connelly

Robert,

Whats wrong with Terk?

I have one, and its performance is so-so, I'm just wondering what switching to another brand will do for me.

I live about 35-40 miles from the transmitters for the Metro Detroit stations. After some playing around with the Terk Boom antenna I was able to get all channels except 1 and that is just religious programming so no loss there.

However after getting this setup properly within 2 weeks as the weather changed I lost 1 channel completely and another 2 are flaky with my Samsung reciever.

I bought it based on the recommendation of the guy at CC who sold me the TV and reciever. I originally tried the set top antenna wiht power and hardly got anything at all.

I'd like to get something fixed up soon, the wife is tired of the wire running through the house. I have it up above the garage and while I've been playing with it haven't run the wires in the walls yet, waiting to see if it will work up in the garage or I need to move it to the chimney.

Thanks

Omard.

Indoor is my preferred choice. Are there any one you can specifically recommend?

Robert_J

They are the Bose of the antenna world. Their performance does not match their price. Over at AVS Forums, about 90% of the people with Terk antennas had reception problems. Those problems were eliminated by switching to a different antenna (usually cheaper) from one of the companies above. Some people even had better reception with no antenna than they did with a Terk. There are a few people who get a good signal with a Terk antenna.

I use a Radio Shack Double Bow Tie sitting on my TV. OK performance at 25 miles from the towers. Before the Super Bowl I'm upgrading to a Channel Master 4228 mounted on the roof. It's a 40+ mile fringe antenna but I want to eliminate all signal drop-outs.

-Robert

Jim-L

I noticed you are in Berwyn. I live up in the North Suburbs and am using a Winegard Perfect Vision. It is a roof-top antenna, but it is small compared to the others. In addition to Chicago, I am picking up Wisconsin as well. I didn't get much with an indoor antenna and had to use the roof-top.

By the way, CBS will give you the most problems with reception. Once you pick that one up, the rest are no problem.

Patrick Sun

I have the same situation where 1 of the HDTV channels is VHF (NBC is on 10-3) while the rest were UHF, and I wound up using a UFH (Radio Shack Double Bowtie antenna), and an old VHF (telescopic antennae) connected via a splitter/combiner and fed into a small antenna amplifier to get all of the available HDTV channels in my area.

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Omard.

Is your Channel Master 4228 the 8-Bay Bowtie UHF Antenna or the Channel Master CM4248 UHF Quantum YAGI Antenna?

SeanA

Robert or Patrick,

What is the model # of the Radio Shack double bow-tie antenna you both mention ???

Sean
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