Need antenna recommendation for Fresno, Calif.

[jklhill]

93722, 1 set, subdivision housing tract, High tension power lines 1 block to the east, microwave tower 2 to 3 blocks to the southwest. I have a Vizio VX32L HDTV10A with a built in digital tuner.

[tigerbangs]

I suggest using a VHF-high-band plus UHF antenna like a Winegard HD-7694P or an AntennaCraft HBU-33 mounted on your roof, aimed at roughly 75 degrees as measured by your compass. using such an antenna will allow you to see all of the major network programming from the Fresno area, as well as a number of other, lower-powered specialty stations that operated in the valley. Using this recommendation should yield better than 20 channels to you.

Here is a good antenna installation guide to help you:
http://manuals.solidsignal.com/AntInstallGuide.pdf

[jklhill]

Thank-you. I'll post results when I'm up and running.

[tigerbangs]

I'd be interested in hearing about the quality and quantity of your reception results.

[Tunerator]

I live in central Fresno and recently put a Winegard HD-7694P on the roof. Tigerbang's recommendations were supported by other TV mapping services and by the desire for high-band VHF reception (for 7.1) to pick up San Francisco Giants baseball games once a week, and the price was right for the Winegard. There are a lot of tall trees in our neighborhood, but I aimed the antenna as tigerbangs suggested and was delighted to find a boat load of stations with strong steady signals.

A scan turned up 55 stations and after weeding out the ones I wasn't interested in for one reason or another I was left with about 20 good usable choices, most of which are represented in the local paper's weekly TV listing booklet. Most of the stations are in two groups of transmitters separated by about 50 degrees. I didn't really expect to be able to get them all without a rotor or a signal booster, but in fact they all come in great with 85-95% signal strength and no problems at all just as predicted by tigerbangs. Good call! Thanks for the excellent advice!