Over-air HDTV antenna for Greeley/Weld County?

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Originally Posted by NFATrustGuy

I'm in west Windsor near I-25 and Hwy 392. I use an HD Stacker antenna in my attic. I purchased it from Denny's Antenna Service. I get all the Denver channels plus Channel 5 from Cheyenne. I also installed this antenna in my old house in west Loveland and had good results with it there, too.

I spent a chunk of money at the outset on the antenna plus some high quality splitters, signal amplifiers, distribution amplifiers, etc., but it makes me smile very month to know that I'm not paying a satellite or cable TV provider $75+ per month!

One piece of advice I'll offer is to avoid mounting your antenna directly above fluorescent lights. I did this at my prior house and I'd lose the TV signal every time I turned on the lights in the garage.

www.dennysanntennaservice.com

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You've got an extra "n" in your link, Rod.

www.dennysantennaservice.com/

I had them for a while, had to put a hi gain antenna up on a pole, it was amplified, I think we could get >22 different stations.

Wind storm took it out :(

We just decided to do direct tv instead of spending more money to replace everything.

I am a few blocks south of the 23rd Ave Walmart

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Originally Posted by def90

Greeley will be an issue, I believe the channels come from several different towers in different locations vs in Denver where everything pretty much comes from Lookout Mtn..

There is also the issue of different transmitting power issues for each station and the fact that some frequencies travel better than others.

I install TVs for a living and what I typically do when a client wants an antenna is I get up on the roof with a basic flat antenna (one that isn't tuned to receive any frequencies more than others) and I use a meter to record the signal strength of each station. You might get 3db on a low VHF channel, 9db on a high VHF channel and then 12db on a UHF channel (this is a generalization because the way things are transmitted even though you tune to channel 7 it is actually broadcast at a different channel number in the UHF range). I then take those numbers and look at the different antenna specs that the manufacturers provide and I would find one that has a high boost on low VHF, a low boost on high VHF and no boost on UHF.. What you want ultimately is an even signal level across all channels as the signal hits your TV. If you put a preamp or amp on an antenna that is not tuned then you are still just going to get a shitty signal on the lower signal stations.

Without the proper equipment you kind of just have to make a guess..

This antenna has been working well for me in the Denver metro, can't say what it would do in Weld County

http://www.winegard.com/flatwave/air

Use this link to see where your towers are and what antenna they recommend based on your location

http://www.winegard.com/selector?q=offair

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Would you recommend the Flatwave Air with a Roku streaming device?

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Originally Posted by def90

Greeley will be an issue, I believe the channels come from several different towers in different locations vs in Denver where everything pretty much comes from Lookout Mtn..

There is also the issue of different transmitting power issues for each station and the fact that some frequencies travel better than others.

I install TVs for a living and what I typically do when a client wants an antenna is I get up on the roof with a basic flat antenna (one that isn't tuned to receive any frequencies more than others) and I use a meter to record the signal strength of each station. You might get 3db on a low VHF channel, 9db on a high VHF channel and then 12db on a UHF channel (this is a generalization because the way things are transmitted even though you tune to channel 7 it is actually broadcast at a different channel number in the UHF range). I then take those numbers and look at the different antenna specs that the manufacturers provide and I would find one that has a high boost on low VHF, a low boost on high VHF and no boost on UHF.. What you want ultimately is an even signal level across all channels as the signal hits your TV. If you put a preamp or amp on an antenna that is not tuned then you are still just going to get a shitty signal on the lower signal stations.

Without the proper equipment you kind of just have to make a guess..

This antenna has been working well for me in the Denver metro, can't say what it would do in Weld County

http://www.winegard.com/flatwave/air

Use this link to see where your towers are and what antenna they recommend based on your location

http://www.winegard.com/selector?q=offair

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That link for the towers is accurate, I did not know about the tower in Ft Morgan.

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Originally Posted by crays

You've got an extra "n" in your link, Rod.

www.dennysantennaservice.com/

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Whoops. Thanks for catching that and correcting it. That's what I get for typing when tired.