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Well I'm sure I can skip all the details, but I'm looking to find a good antenna. I don't want my apartment to look like a SETI station, but I want to ditch the rabbit ears on my BBQ (I will explain...) and the amplified POS antenna on my patio.
Due to the fact that I can't post a link just yet, I went to TVFool.com and I put in my location, Hobe Sound, FL with a zip code of 33455 and this is my issue.
Of course I don't expect great things, and the stations I need to get are all within reasonable range and fairly close together in direction. Basically, the normal channels like ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox & the CW. All under 40 miles, but not all in the same direction. I don't live in a very developed area, at least there aren't any tall buildings within 10 miles that I know of and the trees aren't very thick.
Right now I have 2 antennas outside and a splitter inside. One antenna is a cheap $10 VHF/UHF that I have positioned on my BBQ to just pick up 2 stations (Real Channel 12 & 13, VHF) and it does a decent job at that most of the times. I then have a Phillips UHF amplified antenna, which can be temper-mental (Yes I meant to spell it that way, the antenna is very MENTAL)at times. While this system seems to work for the most part, I use my PC as a DVR for my OTA stations and I'm not home to switch between the two (Or a racoon knocks over my VHF off the BBQ) so I want one decent omni-directional antenna to take care of it. If I have to use a pre-amp, that's not a huge deal for me, I just hate having to switch between 2 antennas.
In my house I have my PC with a TV Tuner (HP-M9000T, Win7 64bit, Vixus-PureTV, No Internet) along with a TV in the livingroom that has an external ATSC Tuner and a TV In the bedroom with it's own built in ATSC Tuner. The 2 antennas outside are connected to their own individual coax connections coming into the 2way switch, then that goes to a 5way splitter.
I've been looking at the Winegard HD-1080, or something along that line. Any suggestions on what's the best bang for the buck for what I'm looking at?
Any help is appreciated!
Due to the fact that I can't post a link just yet, I went to TVFool.com and I put in my location, Hobe Sound, FL with a zip code of 33455 and this is my issue.
Of course I don't expect great things, and the stations I need to get are all within reasonable range and fairly close together in direction. Basically, the normal channels like ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox & the CW. All under 40 miles, but not all in the same direction. I don't live in a very developed area, at least there aren't any tall buildings within 10 miles that I know of and the trees aren't very thick.
Right now I have 2 antennas outside and a splitter inside. One antenna is a cheap $10 VHF/UHF that I have positioned on my BBQ to just pick up 2 stations (Real Channel 12 & 13, VHF) and it does a decent job at that most of the times. I then have a Phillips UHF amplified antenna, which can be temper-mental (Yes I meant to spell it that way, the antenna is very MENTAL)at times. While this system seems to work for the most part, I use my PC as a DVR for my OTA stations and I'm not home to switch between the two (Or a racoon knocks over my VHF off the BBQ) so I want one decent omni-directional antenna to take care of it. If I have to use a pre-amp, that's not a huge deal for me, I just hate having to switch between 2 antennas.
In my house I have my PC with a TV Tuner (HP-M9000T, Win7 64bit, Vixus-PureTV, No Internet) along with a TV in the livingroom that has an external ATSC Tuner and a TV In the bedroom with it's own built in ATSC Tuner. The 2 antennas outside are connected to their own individual coax connections coming into the 2way switch, then that goes to a 5way splitter.
I've been looking at the Winegard HD-1080, or something along that line. Any suggestions on what's the best bang for the buck for what I'm looking at?
Any help is appreciated!
