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I wont forget the cable ordered it too . i think the c4 will fit fine i dont care if it looks bad i just want my football and postseason bbl. plus if an antenna with 60mile range cant help me then it wont matter and im screwed . and would have to start in with the board about installing an outdoor antenna at that point and cost ill just find the games online and hook my CPu to my TV

Remember looking into it and the clearstreams are VHF and uhf. I guess he can call them and verify

I tried the C2 and had no luck with it. I think you will find with the C2 and others in the series,
they are really UHF antennas adapted to receive VHF.

Whichever antenna you buy, make sure it can be returned and/or exchanged.

One person's success with an antenna will not necessarily mean that it will work for you -
there are just too many variables.

That being said, I like two Terk antennas:

HDTVi - Unamplified

HDTVa - Amplified

They are the same antenna - one amplified, the other not.

Both have UHF and a VHF elements.

In fact, the VHF element are rabbit ears - gives you great flexibility in adjusting.

Good luck!
Edited by SnellKrell - 9/2/12 at 2:47pm

In addition to facing west, away from the transmitters, what floor are you on and how many floors are in your building? Also if you were on the same floor but on the side of the building facing the ESB (transmitters) is there a clear line of sight to the ESB or are there buildings, terrain or other obstacles?

I thought those antenna are for inside NYC since they are very directional.

They're not for just inside NYC.

Yes, the UHF element is very directional.

Therefore, good for dealing with multipath.

Even if there are no multipath problems with a lot of bounce signals,
it could be fine just aiming one of the Terks toward the ESB.

The HDTVa is the amplified version.

Sorry I mixed up the two Terk indoor antennas.

HDTVa - Amplified

HDTVi - Unamplifed

Thanks for catching the error.

I am surprised it says 45 miles from broadcast station with no obstructions

As I always said, This is more of an art form then science. He needs to try 5 antennas and pick the best and return the rest

Those Terks have a very well designed UHF element. I have an HDTVa that receives UHF stations from 75 miles. But of course that depends upon location and lack of obstructions. Not sure how well it would work in NYC with all of the tall buildings around. Perhaps you could also give the Mohu Leaf a try, as it has gotten good reviews. But it is optimized for UHF, although it does work well for VHF in some areas.

Honestly it looks like a toy. Yet I seen stranger things. When I was looking for my Aunt the Terk 50 was the state of the art. I tried it not knowing it would work. Can you imagine when I walked in with a 5 foot stick antenna? She was not pleased. When it worked she got happy real fast. Even in analog it got 16 channels. Of course 2 to 5 got variants of snow From 7 to above it was perfect. Now with digital she gets 55 channels with subs. Yet I know someone who tried the terk 50 and got little to nothing. It all depends on where you live.

Trying any suggestion is the way to go. It either works or it does not.

wPIX ch.11- 1,2,3 give rather low signal output, lot of pixelation, Antenna adjustments may improve reception, but then may loose some of the 72ch.

I am getting ready to try to record something on ch 7 overnight and am seeing some very weird reception issues with it. Basically, it wasn't there at all (or at extremely low levels). I even moved my antenna to my 2nd location (that I use for MY9) and same thing.

Although I still have it there now (12:07 AM) and seem to be getting solid reception now.

Ch 7 is normally my strongest NYC channel at my primary antenna location. But I had zilch there just a bit ago.

???????????

I'll set things up to record from 3:30 AM to 4:30 AM and see what I get. There's nothing else I can do.

But I've had pretty solid Jimmy Kimmel for about 5 minutes now, so I'm hopeful.

Oops -- just lost reception (@ 12:09)

It's gotta be either an atmosphere thing or they are having probems at ABC (or @ the ESB)

I have now watched what I recorded from 3:27 AM to 4:33 AM Saturday and there was nary a glitch. So reception at that time was solid. It was also solid later yesterday morning @ 90-91% for ch. 7. And also very good for all NYC channels.

That was all at my #2 (MY9) antenna location.

Then I moved the antenna to my primary location, pointed to NYC, and even better ch 7 reception there (as per usual).

So the problems I saw Friday night were apparently temporary. What those problems were due to, I dunno.

Wow you are quite the OTA trooper. You were up on your roof yesterday morning moving your antenna around? Wasn't it rainy yesterday morning?

Hi. It's 9/11/12 and at 9AM I noticed that channel 2 had no signal.

I finally found a number for CBS in NYC, 212-975-4321 and spoke with someone who acknowledged that there was a problem. He said they lost power.

I also noticed that channel 5 is off the air after 12:30AM some nights.

There is no mention of a problem on the CBS website.

OTA is not being treated seriously. That's a bad sign.

enter 33 on your remote which is its RF# and you should get CBS

At 12 noon I turned on my TV and found no channel 2.1 and 2.1 but it was there as 33.1 and 33.2. So something must have happened and they never told anyone. Funny it happened on the anniversary of 9/11.

As the cost of programming increases, so must revenue streams for broadcasters, as they will need to compete with other streams of programming (payTV, Hulu, etc.). OTA programming was paid for primarily by advertising back in the day. Now, a greater portion needs be made up by re-transmission fees. It explains why CV has dumped CW11 from the lineup. I have read that Tribune wants 30 cents per month per subscriber for CW11.. a channel that you theoretically can get free with an antenna.

You will see broadcasters worry more about their sat or microwave linkups to cable / sat head ends than their primary broadcast facility.... The money is in the re-transmission fees...

Cheers!
-Doug

I thought CBS broke the cluster of 3BuenaVista 4WNBC 5Fox 7WABC 9WOR 11WPIX 13WNET going to 33 and at night going back to 2

Is channel 2 cbs now broadcasting in postage stamp?

I been told that CBS changed formats. Is no one else getting postage stamp or elongated picture?

The main channel has always been right.

It's the sub-channel that's all mucked up...

Not on FIOS. CBS 2.1 is no all messed up and they are blaming CBS signal. So since Fios gets the signal from CBS. I thought it would of shown on CBS antenna.

No issues here with CBS.

On the cable front my understanding is that CNN was dominant news channel, on OTA front it seems that the Chinese News are serious competitors of OTA major worldwide news,
the 32 -1 CCTV shows African news in English, 32-2 CCTV4 Asian in English, 32-3 Chinese programs with Spanish subtitles, then there are 24-2 ICN and 24-3 and in the 63 few other Asia ch.

We live in a country with a very diverse population and the programming reflects who we are.... especially in the NY/NJ metro area.
I would like to see the programming that is in other languages give English speakers an option to view what is going on in English. Whether by captions or other means. They definitely show more and better movies ...that I try to watch but my Spanish is not very good.

Speaking of Spanish language TV stations...

When a Spanish language TV station shows an American movie, the audio is the Spanish dub of the movie.

Why aren't they also broadcasting the English audio of the American movie as an alternate SAP???

I emailed one station asking this, but I never got an answer.

I know FOX broadcasts the Simpsons in English and Spanish. Why not channel 68 or whatever???

It makes so much sense to do this that you would have to be stupid not to do it and get more viewers!

Just a thought here, but perhaps they only get a licence to broadcast the movies with Spanish audio. Might be cheaper for them to acquire that way.