CBS reception for 61261

[RFrancis00]

I am wanting to know what antenna will work best for my location to pick up CBS station WHBF. We used to get this before the digital change over and we miss it. We do receive all the other channels in our area but them. Please give me any advise you can think off that may help because missing the Football playoff games stunk.......
I live east of 61261 on a high point of ground with no obtructions any where near my location.

[tigerbangs]

WHBF lies in a different direction from your other stations: do you have a roof-mounted antenna now? WHBF operates on digital channel 4, and you will need a low-band VHF antena aimed at the transmitter in order to see it.

[RFrancis00]

Roof mounted. Can you give me any advise on which antenna to get? Can I run 2 antennas

[tigerbangs]

Here's how I would handle it: You can use a UHF only antenna for all of your other stations: they all lie in the same direction, 220 degrees from your location, at a distance of about 37 miles, WHBF operates on channel 4, a VHF low-band station, in a silghtly different direction, at about 250 degrees and a distance of 32 miles. I would use a Winegard YA-6260 6 element VHF-low-band yagi aimed at WHBF, and a UHF yagi, like a Winegard HD-9032 aimed that the other stations at 220 degrees. Separate the two antennas by 4' on the same mast , and use a Pico-Macom UVSJ antenna joiner to combine the signals from the two antennas into one new coaxial cable feed into your house. If you are running more that one TV set from your antenna, consider using a splitter-amplifier like the Channel Master CM341x series of amplifiers to recover signal strength lost by cable runs and splitting the signal.

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