Need Antenna Advice

[mlw1035]

I am located in Western NY - zip 14701 - can you give me some advice regarding the best antenna setup for my area. It looks like we are in a fringe area and I may not have many choices. I would like to ditch cable and am not interested in Satellite. Primary interest is in PBS followed by the networks. Thank you

[tigerbangs]

This is a situation where it will be very helpful to have either your http://www.TVFool.com report or your coordinates because you have terrain issues that will require more specific location information: please provide that info, adn we can help you properly.

[mlw1035]

The coordinates are Lat.42.009 and Long. -79.26 I have also attached the analysis. Thanks for your input - greatly appreciated.

Marc Wilcox

[tigerbangs]

TV reception is tough where you are: you have some stations from Buffalo and Erie available to you, but large hills and considerable distances prevent easy reception. My suggeston to you would be to use a deep-fringe VHF high-band plus UHF antenna like a Winegard HD-7698P or an AntennaCraft HBU-55 plus a preamplifier like a Winegard Ap-8275 or a Channel master Titan 7777, and a rotator like a Channel Master 9521a: oyu should be able to see all of your major TV networks if you rotate the antenna.

http://www.winegard.com
http://www.channelmaster.com
http://www.antennacraft.net
http://manuals.solidsignal.com/AntInstallGuide.pdf