Stockton Antenna Reccomendation?

I have 21 year old 8 foot VHF/UHF antenna on my roof. It's about 55 feet high. While I have a rotor it's not necessary for Sacramento only stations. My quest is to reliably pick up the SF stations. So far I tried the monster Radio Shack VU-210 which while stronger was not strong enough. In mid-Stockton so I'm about 27 aerial miles from Sacramento's Walnut Grove towers but it's 65 miles to the Sutro towers in SF. My quest is on hold for the moment.

I am in Pittsburg, but am also 27-28 miles away from the Walnut Grove antenna farm. I'm using the small Radio Shack Yagi(~$20), fixed-no rotor on a 5 ft mast on the roof. With my DST-3000, I pick up all the Digital stations @ 100% signal.


The non-digital stations look pretty awful running through the component input as 480i is being converted to 1080i. I'm planning on hooking an s-video cable to view those, but haven't done it yet. Others have reported they should look on a par with cable.

I am ready to utilize my Channel Master 4228 that I bought and am not sure how to mount it. I am in Manteca and went through the antenna web.org site to check on which one to buy and where to point it. With the antenna in my upstairs theater room, I can get only 13-1 KOVR in HD. I put it outside on the garage roof and now can get Fox's up-converted signal or whatever that is on 40-1 or something. If I stick it on the roof on a mast, how much better will it get? I would like to get CBS and NBC since I have heard so many great things about the CBS primetime lineup. Any info on what the channels are for those?


I am running the Panasonic HD box with my Sony 10HT.

Well, when I first got my small UHF Yagi, I just stood it up in the backyard just to see what I could get. I could only get 1 of the digital stations and just barely so at that. I raised it up ~20' onto the roof and now I get all 5 digital stations @ 100% on my DST-3000. I even pick up some VHF signals(pretty crappy though).


It's amazing what a lttle elevation will do! Higher is better.

Saam47, thanks, I will keep that in mind. I am now looking at getting a rotor and putting the whole thing on the chimney. My wife was not real happy, but I told her that she wouldn't even see it, well, like the dish. It has to be there.