In our experience, any antenna placed indoors will suck bronto. We tried
several iterations, and even just the roof attenuated the signal too much.
We had a small yagi-type antenna for a while, but the wind just ripped
it apart. The last antenna we got was a Winegard "FlatWave Air
(https://winegard.com/products/hdtv-digital-antennas/outdoor-antennas/flatwave/flatwave-air).
We have used it now for several years. It's relatively small, and
doesn't "look" like an antenna either.
Almost all the stations we get are on a single large tower in San
Francisco at about 40 miles (all UHF and one VHF). There is a single
station (VHF) that is about 35 miles away at almost exactly the same
azimuth, and another UHF station that is about 75 miles away. Curiously,
the 75-mile UHF station is the strongest signal of all.
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On 1/28/2020 6:37 PM, Nate Burke wrote:
I know it's been brought up in the past, but I'm too lazy to go look
through the archives.
What good OTA Antennas are out there now? Is channel master still the
gold standard? Looking to mount inside an attic. 35 miles to the
transmitter across water, and through a couple sand dunes and a forest
(NW Indiana across lake Michigan to Chicago)
Looks like there are square and yagi antennas. The Yagi antennas say
'line of sight' Does that really mean LOS like we think of LOS, or
LOS as in it has to be aimed at the receiver?
Has to go in the attic because my mom says 'anything that goes on the
roof will leak', but she's ready to dump Comcast because they keep
raising her price and taking away her channels (last straw was them
pulling TCM from her package). I was at least smart enough to put in
a conduit from the attic to the basement when they built the house.
Yagi might be hard to aim in the attic. Would it work just the same on
a post in the yard, or does the extra 15' of height to the attic
really help.
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