Thanks guys. After reading and chiming in on this thread I had a bug up my @ss about upgrading my antenna lol. Went with a Channel Master 4228HD and a Channel Master titan # 7777 high gain powered amplifier. You can see the difference between the rotational antenna I put up last year vs the rectangular 4228HD. Definitely an improvement. More channels and the signal strength is much stronger and steady. I'm almost 60 miles away from the broadcast towers in Philly. I might try pointing the rotational antenna towards NYC and see if I can use both of them.
So that one you put up last year, is that one of those claimed "150 mile" antennas? I see some elcheapo ones like that on ebay that make some pretty unbelievable claims...still wonder if they would work any better than my old school channel master (one of the huge ones) I'm only 40-50 miles from most of the stations, but ever since the change to digital signal, some of the channels that are supposed to be the stronger channels for us, come and go with weather.
It is. It definitely doesn't get 150 mile range. If I was 20 miles from the stations it probably would be better. It's not a bad antenna but I just live too far from the station for it to keep a steady signal.
Update: Watched some of the Eagles preseason game last night on NBC. The signal strength was consistently around 70%. Absolutely no lag or picture distortion. The other antenna would be in the upper 50s then drop down to 30% and would cause lag. Very impressed with the CM 4428
I deal with the occasional dropouts depending on the weather and I'm relatively close to 2 cities. The antenna stays in one direction though. I basically only watch TV for football so I do risk missing a Pats game in bad weather, but hasn't happened yet in 9 years with antenna. Congrats to your Eagles as well (not for last night, for the real game
My wife asked me why I was upgrading the antenna. I said football season started lol. Thats all i use the antenna for also. I still can't believe they won a SB lol
