I'm actually in Queens, I just connected my Silver Sensor straight up and pointed it to a spot that had previously given me some sort of signal. What I first did was to check Antennaweb and see what was available. Then I actually got 3 antennas. I got 1 Radio Shack Double Bow-Tie, Non-modded, then another RS Bow-Tie with Mod, then a Silver sensor. At this point in time I was just using my Sony HD-100 to recieve OTA. The Radio Shack Antennas did OK but they werent sufficiant enough to get a stable signal, the Silver Sensor was much more stable with it but still not nearly perfect. The RS Mod did not seem to improve my situation. The way I tested the signal on my HD-100 was to just connect it straight up and then set the STB to the signal meter mode and manually move the antenna by hand until I got a good signal. At one point I got the STB to say 92% using the Silver Sensor antenna, but it sure did not seem like it. At 92% the signal was still dropping every couple of seconds. I had used a ton of devices such as attenuators, amps, FM traps, RF traps. They did not help at all. BTW, The Hipix software has an awesome signal scanner that lets you balence it out between all your ATSC channels.
Then I got the Hipix and when I hooked it straight up using the Silver Sensor antenna it worked 100% stable at 40% signal strength. Unfortunatly I'm having a problem now though. At first I thought I was getting all 3 ATSC channels available here, but it seems I'm only getting 2. The Hipix picked up all 3 in the channel scan. But the channel I can't seem to get is 5.2 (WWOR-DT) and another station 5.1 is physically mapped to the same channel #. I am able to recieve 5.1 which is FOX, but I cannot recieve channel 5.2 using the Hipix, the signal is not an issue because I can get 70% on that channel, and it seems the window isn't showing any data at all, it's just a blank screen. However I do remember getting this channel on my HD-100 STB (even though I was getting a ton of drops I could still get a partial picture). Any idea why this might be happening?
UPDATE:
Ok I checked Antennaweb to see what WWOR-DT is and it seems it's UPN. FOX and UPN seemed to be both physically mapped to 44. However, Antennaweb is reporting that WWOR-DT's physical channel is 38 and isn't live till May 2003, weird. I don't know why the Hipix isn't able to tune into it though. I think I remember trbarry say that his Hipix couldn't tune into UPN either?