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Brett8187
08-05-07, 01:10 PM
Hey thanks for help ahead of time

I go to college at UCM (warrensburg, mo) it's roughly 45 minutes out of kansas city. I was wondering if i would be able to get much if any reception of HD channels over the air out there? Theres not much in the town, only reports ive found reguarding warrnesburg and hdtv are from a pbs station. I was planning on using a mini usb tuner/antenna from circuit city. I've searched antennawebs and all it listed was the PBS one.

thanks
Brett

raouliii
08-05-07, 02:23 PM
Zip Code 64093 AntennaWeb results:

* green - uhf KPXE-DT 50.1 ION KANSAS CITY MO 290° 45.5 51
* red - uhf KSMO-DT 62.1 MNT KANSAS CITY MO 297° 45.5 47
* red - uhf KCPT-DT 19.1 PBS KANSAS CITY MO 296° 45.7 18
* red - uhf KCTV-DT 5.1 CBS KANSAS CITY MO 292° 50.2 24
* red - uhf KCWE-DT 29.1 CW KANSAS CITY MO 295° 47.3 31
* red - uhf KMCI-DT 38.1 IND LAWRENCE KS 286° 45.4 36
* red - uhf KSHB-DT 41.1 NBC KANSAS CITY MO 286° 45.4 42
* red - uhf KMOS-DT 6.1 PBS SEDALIA MO 99° 47.7 15
* red - vhf KMBC-DT 9.1 ABC KANSAS CITY MO 295° 47.3 7
* violet - uhf KMIZ-DT 17.1 ABC COLUMBIA MO 87° 63.3 22

45-47 miles will require a decent outdoor antenna.

jtbell
08-05-07, 03:21 PM
You might get lucky and pick up one or two stations if you aim a good indoor UHF antenna like the Silver Sensor (Philips PHDTV1 or Terk HDTVi) out a window that faces towards the transmitters. But for reliable reception on most of them you'll probably need an outdoor antenna as raouliii says.