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Good antenna for OTA channels?

Phillips / Zenith Silver Sensor is gold standard for indoor antennas, at least up to say about 20 miles or so.

I also like the Terrestrial Digital designs, but YMMV depending upon your location, where signals are coming from and how far away transmitters are, and particular tuner chip you are using.
 
If you have a relatively unobstructed LOS to the transmitters and they aren't more than 40 miles away or about 70 degrees apart, then the EZHD antenna from www.dennysantennaservice.com is awesome. It is small enough to be easily hidden or overlooked and really does get great reception. Pop your zip code into www.tvfool.com and let us know where the transmitters are. That'll be a big help.
 
Since I am a member of this forum that tends to answer such antenna questions, let me plug http://www.highdefforum.com/index.php

The other thing to note the best antenna question answer is almost unique to every individual location, some locations can do quite well with a $20.00 antenna and other less lucky people have to invest more to get less.

And while antenna.org is not horrible, one can get far more information from www.TVFool.com for the price of free in terms of an exact address report.

Tons of information to be had, both in the form of color coded for summary and hard numbers for in depth study.

As for the OP who asks antenna questions, give me an exact address TVFool report and I can make a very good informated Statement on what will work and not work for you, and without that information, anyone would be simply guessing.
 
I live about 20 miles away from the TV stations in my area and I have heavy trees around my property. I used antennaweb.org to find the headings for each of the stations in my area.

Then I went to Radio Shack and I bought two of these antennas:
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=2103088

I used equal lengths of coax and a standard splitter/combiner to combine the signals from those two. Then I ran one coax to this distribution amp:
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Signa...4213781&sr=8-1

I split the signal four ways to go to my living room, family room, attic (where it is split to three bedrooms), computer room and basement.

I've been tweaking recently but it works incredibly well now with almost no drop outs on any channel. Good practices such as waterproofing connectors, using a compass to find the exact heading to point your antenna, and using good quality coax is important.

If you are looking for an indoor antenna, try out the famous Youtube coat hanger antenna. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQhlmJTMzw
 
radioouman said:
I live about 20 miles away from the TV stations in my area and I have heavy trees around my property. I used antennaweb.org to find the headings for each of the stations in my area.

Then I went to Radio Shack and I bought two of these antennas:
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=2103088

I used equal lengths of coax and a standard splitter/combiner to combine the signals from those two. Then I ran one coax to this distribution amp:
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Signa...4213781&sr=8-1

I split the signal four ways to go to my living room, family room, attic (where it is split to three bedrooms), computer room and basement.

I've been tweaking recently but it works incredibly well now with almost no drop outs on any channel. Good practices such as waterproofing connectors, using a compass to find the exact heading to point your antenna, and using good quality coax is important.

If you are looking for an indoor antenna, try out the famous Youtube coat hanger antenna. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQhlmJTMzw
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Just curious, I've had trouble getting two antenna setups to work well if at all. Have you tried disconnecting either antenna and seeing what kind of reception you get with each individual antenna alone? Anytime I've introduced an additional antenna, it's degraded the signal. How far apart do you have the antennas physical spaced?
 
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