HDTV Antenna Recomendations?

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PabloCruise

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According to antennaweb.org, I need a "Large Directional Antenna" (Violet color code) to pull the channels we want.

I need to receive from towers ~55 miles away.

If I can avoid a roof-top or external install, I would like to. The TV room is in the second story of the house, so I could put an antenna in the attic and drop the coax through the ceiling.

What do you all recommend in terms of best bang for the buck?

TIA,
 
I don't have to pull from 55-miles away but Alvaro pointed me to this antenna and its been great in our attic for HDTV. We do live near the mountains, with resulting transmission shadow zones, and we have perfect HD reception from all the channels that are broadcasting in our area. They also make a booster for it...but I can't comment on its effectiveness.

We live in a restrictive CCR development and can't mount the antenna on the roof...so the attic was the only alternative for us.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EHWCDW/?tag=ihco-20
 
splitshot said:
You can do this?:hhmm: Our rooftop is beat up and needs to be replaced.
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So I've heard!

spressomon said:
I don't have to pull from 55-miles away but Alvaro pointed me to this antenna and its been great in our attic for HDTV. We do live near the mountains, with resulting transmission shadow zones, and we have perfect HD reception from all the channels that are broadcasting in our area. They also make a booster for it...but I can't comment on its effectiveness.

We live in a restrictive CCR development and can't mount the antenna on the roof...so the attic was the only alternative for us.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EHWCDW/?tag=ihco-20
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Thanks, I'll check it out!
 
The first owner of our house installed one UHF and one VHF directional antennas INSIDE the attic back in '85. For reasons I can't explain, I'm using these old antennas to receive HDTV signal over the air and they work very well.
 
alia176 said:
The first owner of our house installed one UHF and one VHF directional antennas INSIDE the attic back in '85. For reasons I can't explain, I'm using these old antennas to receive HDTV signal over the air and they work very well.
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Are you running a digital converter between antennas and your digital TV?
 
Shouldn't need a special antenna. The magic is in the tuner. If your TV is too old it will need an external tuner. I'm using an old large directional aerial antenna I had up for radio, and HDTV channels comes in clean and crisp. I am about 41 miles out from towers.
 
Ahh, that explains why I'm able to get HDTV using old aerials.
 
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