I went to antennaweb.org, typed in my street and zipcode and it comes back and tells me where 7 stations are located and their orientation in the blue/violet zone. I hooked up a Winegard 7084p and rotor and I got 50 stations. So much for the 7! The problem I'm having, my TV does NOT have a signal strength meter and I'm having a heck of a time trying to visually figure out where to point the antenna for best reception (that's to say each station I try it at different angles trying to guess if the current position causes less pixilation than other angles and after the first 2 stations was done with that technique). On bad days, it's very picky about where to point which is when I want it most usually... on nice clear days I can just face it in 1 direction and all stations come in without any pixelation.

Is there a better site, or something that's a little more accurate? Again, my TV does NOT have a signal strength meter. Maybe it's because I live on a hill I'm getting so many. Or, maybe there's a way I can type in the area I live in, and the channel I'm receiving to find the location of the broadcast tower so I can get the angle. Thanks!

I don't know if this one is "better." For starters, you have to find your own latitude/longitude somewhere. However, it does let you set several options like maximum range, whether or not to include low power stations, etc. It will include a lot that you can't receive, but it will be adjustable to the point of giving you range and bearing to whatever you are receiving, so it might be better for that purpose.

http://www.2150.com/broadcast/default.asp

A couple more options would include www.tvfool.com, and the FCC website
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/video/tvq.html , then scroll down to "Stations Within a Radius," plug in the distance you're interested in plus your coordinates, then click "Submit Data."

Steve

TVFool.com, which also has area coverage maps that you can plug into Google Earth.

It's pretty cool to load Google Earth and look at your neighborhood and see what kind of signal you can receive there.

Certainly if you can see the towers of any of the stations or the location where they are located you can always point at them with your eyeball. Using the same idea if you can't see the location if you draw a line on a map from your location to the location of any towers and then look for a landmark on the line you drew which you can see you can point at that landmark.

Thanks, http://www.2150.com/broadcast/default.asp is exactly what I was looking for. I was able to see my 50 stations and then some. Why, they even included a magnetic offset I could enter, since I positioned my rotor to true north (not magnetic) that feature came in handy. Real cool! I just spent the last couple hours getting the info into Excel so I could print it out sorted by direction, another by channel, and last by distance (and fit it on one page each).

Thanks all!