Madison, AL: Narrowed it to three Antennas for OTA HD...

The C2 offers the best shot of doing what you want. The DB8 is overkill and the C490 is simply a poor match to the all-UHF goal you've set.

You will probably have to aim the C2 a bit south-easterly to put CW into the C2's rear lobe. That station's tower is up on the TN border to your north-west. That's a bit more than 50 degrees...

A sure-fire solution would be two small UHF Yagis such as the 42XG and a channel 14 Jointenna (if you can find one). Point one at Huntsville, the other towards the CW Station.

I would eliminate the Antennacraft C490, just because the channels you mainly want in green are UHF. That's an all channel antenna, and unless you're also looking to try & get those distant VHF stations (especially WUOA RF 6 & WJSU RF 9), then you don't need one with VHF. The Clearstream 2 & the Antennas Direct DB8 look like good choices. The DB8 covers more area, & would actually allow you to point that antenna between 85° & 92°. Now if you can't get your CW affiliate from the backside, then you will either need a rotator, or a second antenna just for CW.

If yo look at my TV fool chart, I had to get a second antenna just for WYIN, which broadcasts from 184° azimuth, while all other stations are 330° & 332° azimuth. My main antenna is an older Philips VHF/UHF/FM antenna that I bought prior to DTV, but still use it today, even though no full power stations are on 2-6, & a small Winegard HD-1080 just for WYIN. I don't know about your situation if you'll get a steady signal of WHDF from a different , but my own situation warranted a second antenna for WYIN, since their signal dropped out a lot, due to my main antenna pickling them up off the side, & couldn't hold onto a steady signal. That's something to think about.

Here's a possible choice to look at, as you can adjust the direction of each panel. It's from digiwave, an 8 bay antenna where yo can have one set of 4 bays pointed in one direction, & the other pointed in another direction. This antenna might solve your issue with CW coming from a dfferent direction. http://www.summitsource.com/digiwave...le-p-9544.html

In your case KISS applies you only need a DB4 facing due East to pick up the bulk of what you want 15 miles away. The DB4 is very cost effective over the DB8 overkill option IMHO. Best if installed on a J pole roof or wall mounted so it can face East.

Only use a pre-ampliflier if you have along run of RG6 coaxial cable from the antenna to the TVs.


Cheers,

Cutthecable

Sorry for butting in here but here in Fort Wayne the Digiwave ant 7288 works good. We have a D.T. channel 15 miles north of our tower farm and the digiwave antenna has a hinged panel that can be aimed towards another transmission source. In the Columbia City, Indiana area one panel towards South Bend and the other at Fort wayne. A winegard H.D.269 pre-amp prevents overload from the one million watt erp stations in Fort Wayne. Just thinking of a way for you not to have two antennas on a mast looking like a high tech bird perch.

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Indoor, attic or outdoor, depending on building materials.

Per your TVFool, you do not need such a large antenna as the 7288.

Just a conventional 2-way splitter available at Lowes, Home Depot, etc. If your coax runs are long, you may need to add a low noise preamp. But only add it if needed, because your signals are strong and it may overload, if not needed.

You may need to experiment with aiming the antenna in different directions until you find a sweet spot to get all your channels of interest that are off-axis from each other. Start by aiming it SouthEast or NorthWest.

You are only 15 miles away from the stations. You can pick them up with a $12 pair of rabbit ears. I use the Terk TV 5 indoor amplified antenna and it picks up my PBS staton from 30 miles away. Those large outdoor antennas are only for people 50 miles or more away from the stations.

http://www.amazon.com/Terk-Low-Profi...4655773&sr=1-1

Even if someone lives close enough to the towers, it's not a guarantee that someone can get them with rabbit ears (VHF being the worst for that). I have an aunt who only lives about 15-20 miles from WYIN's tower, & can't them at all with rabbit ears. She barely gets certain Chicago stations with rabbit ears, including Chicago's VHF stations WLS-TV (RF 7, which is about to go away soon) & WBBM-TV on RF 12.

Most people on this board have already told this person that the Antennacraft C490 isn't the one, based on the stations in green being UHF that the op wants, & that antenna also has VHF, which isn't needed. This person wants an outdoor antenna (totally recommended for DTV), and I would also go that route too if I were looking for an antenna. The OP will let us know what antenna was purchased (or 2). We gave our recommendations based on UHF. I hadn't thought about the Eagle Aspen antenna, but that looks like a good choice too that another person posted.

Rabbit ears are lousy for UHF unless properly scaled. Loops or bow-ties that are properly scaled for UHF are much more effective.

If you do go with two separate antennas, they do need to be combined. Try the suggested splitter first but be aware that doing so may result in undesirable phase cancellation that would be avoided with a Jointenna.

Glad it worked well for you.