Hi gang,
I'm hoping someone with experience on the topic can help. I recently moved to a rural west Texas town, where the closest transmitters are 28.5 miles away. While I'm beginning to have more luck with them as I try different antennas, there's still one that's killing me: NBC. It's broadcasting on VHF (channel 11), and is just over 30 miles away.
So far, I've only been able to pull it in two times. Once was with a $20 walmart antenna (single loop and two short poles), but that lasted one day and then never came in again. The second is a Terk TV5, with the gain boosted 100%, and also plugged into another Terk amplifier from another one of their antennas. This will now get NBC, but only if I stand in between the living room and the kitchen and put my body directly behind the antenna while it's tilted at a specific angle. Obviously useless.
So, where do I go from here? I've heard so many great things about Antenna Directs' UB2 (and clones), but it's rated as UHF antenna. Does anyone here have experience with pulling in VHF with one of these? Alternately, is there a VHF antenna that would be more likely to help me out that I could run simultaneously with a UB2 or other UHF antenna?
A note about the distance: while it is 30 miles, it's also, as I mentioned, west Texas. This means there is virtually nothing between the towers and my apartment, which is on the second floor of a two story building. And an outdoor antenna is out of the question; I have no way of running the cable inside.
Here's a link to the TVFool info on my address: http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9409/27042437.jpg
Thanks so much for your help!
I'm hoping someone with experience on the topic can help. I recently moved to a rural west Texas town, where the closest transmitters are 28.5 miles away. While I'm beginning to have more luck with them as I try different antennas, there's still one that's killing me: NBC. It's broadcasting on VHF (channel 11), and is just over 30 miles away.
So far, I've only been able to pull it in two times. Once was with a $20 walmart antenna (single loop and two short poles), but that lasted one day and then never came in again. The second is a Terk TV5, with the gain boosted 100%, and also plugged into another Terk amplifier from another one of their antennas. This will now get NBC, but only if I stand in between the living room and the kitchen and put my body directly behind the antenna while it's tilted at a specific angle. Obviously useless.
So, where do I go from here? I've heard so many great things about Antenna Directs' UB2 (and clones), but it's rated as UHF antenna. Does anyone here have experience with pulling in VHF with one of these? Alternately, is there a VHF antenna that would be more likely to help me out that I could run simultaneously with a UB2 or other UHF antenna?
A note about the distance: while it is 30 miles, it's also, as I mentioned, west Texas. This means there is virtually nothing between the towers and my apartment, which is on the second floor of a two story building. And an outdoor antenna is out of the question; I have no way of running the cable inside.
Here's a link to the TVFool info on my address: http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9409/27042437.jpg
Thanks so much for your help!