Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Antenna with Mast


 
Your first step might be to check out antennaweb.org to see your distance and antenna type recommendation. You may not even need an outdoor antenna.

I am about 30 miles from the St Louis broadcast towers and get about a dozen stations with my basement TV and indoor antenna.
 
JSaus said:
Your first step might be to check out antennaweb.org to see your distance and antenna type recommendation. You may not even need an outdoor antenna.

I am about 30 miles from the St Louis broadcast towers and get about a dozen stations with my basement TV and indoor antenna.
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Mine is in my attic. I’m about 32 miles from the antennas. My antenna is a 60 mile range to ensure I had no issues.

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Even though I have an open stick built attic, my antenna is so huge and requires me to have a rotor on it as even "local" stations come in on slightly different compass points and I also need to point it pretty much due north as well as west, SW and NW along with NE.
 
I had tried to use the compass on my iPhone to set the antenna direction. However, every time the phone gets close to the antenna, the compass goes haywire giving erroneous direction.

I wound up using the iPhone compass app on the ground and squared off to the house and fixed object on the horizon. Then while on the roof, aimed at the object, came down, rescanned the TV, rinse and repeat.
 
ChuckO said:
Looks like one station (KRCR-TV) is "Fair" and most are either "Poor" or "Bad"


Just curious what the results you get from this site, especially those who are getting several channels

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The rabbit ears for my location says many of them are poor to bad yet I receive them just fine.

I’m an amature at cord cutting but I think my success stems from:
- mast mounted antenna on chimney. It is probably 25’ above grade
- 8 bay UHF antenna with claimed 80+ mile range
- VHF dipole add on antenna
- mast mounted pre-amp
- distribution amp
- RG6 quad shield coax with runs as short as possible. I added a weatherhead thru the roof which allowed me to eliminate almost 100’ of cable
 
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Wilmer Cogburn said:
The rabbit ears for my location says many of them are poor to bad yet I receive them just fine.
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That's what I was hoping to hear :)

I ordered the EXTREMEtenna 80 for $169 and the TV Antenna PreAmp 1 for $85 tax was $18, total $272 and it should arrive 02/21/25 at the latest. At some point I'll go to Home Depot and get a 30' pipe (1.25" outside diameter) I'll get several Chimney Straps to hold the pole in place and we'll see what we can get with this setup. Thanks everyone
 
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