OTA antenna at home
I hope the moderator will allow me to ask this here, because of the knowledge available. We are planning to stay for a few months at an empty house owned by a relative, while we get it ready to sel...
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First check your local covenants and restrictions and ordinances. Some places outdoor antennas are banned thanks to the effort of cable/sat TV companies.
All is not lost.
IF not banned then I would go with a mid-range Channel master.. Something advertising say a 50 mile range.. ON a roof mounted tripod with rotor
(Or if all the stations are in the same direction you can point it manually with aid and skip the rotor.
True story: When my parents were alive and living in Union City, MI,, in an area where televison reception is not supposed to happen.. I put up a 100' Tower with Channel Master's Biggest or 2nd biggest signal plucker.
I watched Channel 2 out of Detroit (Southfield) and some UHF stations out of South Bend Indiana as well as Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo/Battle Creek (All transmitting from Gun Lake) and Lansing/Jackson (Onedega) With rock solid signal.
You can plot the map distances.
IF.. You have a CC&R or Ordiance issue...
I had a boss once who mounted an antenna in the attic.. Using a rotor,, the roof only caused a slight degradation in performance (though when snow covered it might be worse) nothing visible from outside the house at all.
Of course this was in the analog days.
All is not lost.
IF not banned then I would go with a mid-range Channel master.. Something advertising say a 50 mile range.. ON a roof mounted tripod with rotor
(Or if all the stations are in the same direction you can point it manually with aid and skip the rotor.
True story: When my parents were alive and living in Union City, MI,, in an area where televison reception is not supposed to happen.. I put up a 100' Tower with Channel Master's Biggest or 2nd biggest signal plucker.
I watched Channel 2 out of Detroit (Southfield) and some UHF stations out of South Bend Indiana as well as Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo/Battle Creek (All transmitting from Gun Lake) and Lansing/Jackson (Onedega) With rock solid signal.
You can plot the map distances.
IF.. You have a CC&R or Ordiance issue...
I had a boss once who mounted an antenna in the attic.. Using a rotor,, the roof only caused a slight degradation in performance (though when snow covered it might be worse) nothing visible from outside the house at all.
Of course this was in the analog days.
