Dee, if you put up a tower, you might as well install two highly directional fringe antennas. Aim one at Houston and one at Lake Charles and see what you can get.
By the way, I was in your area last weekend on a day trip to Houston.
Well that's a thought.. But I have a rotor on there now, it's pretty much a one for one clone of the G-box.
I can use either remote on the other, at least for basics.
I suppose I could put a second antenna up and leave it aimed at Houston, most of the towers in Houston are in the same general area of Southwest Houston except a few ethnic and religious stations that are scattered elsewhere that I have no interest in. They are all clustered so close together that I can point at one and get them all.
As it is now, if the weather conditions are right, I can get quite a few Houston channels but they drop out a lot. Probably going to a honkin huge antenna would help, sure wouldn't hurt. A tower would definitely help.
I've finally got all the tools on my Mac now to locate towers and draw lines from them to my antenna to help me aim it. I need to get out there are re-aim it though, last month I had Goober the Handyman remodel the outside of my house and he took the antenna down. When he put it back up he didn't put it back like I had it so it's off now by about 20 degrees and it makes aiming it a treasure hunt.
I've just been too lazy to go out and fix it in the heat... :itshot:
But I wonder if I could put two antennas up, leave one permanently aimed at Houston and the other on the rotor AND combine the signals into the single wire.
As it is now, I have a UHF and a VHF antenna combiner
http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.as...hf-band-separator/combiner-for-antenna-(uvsj)
but I wonder if it's possible to combine two antennas where one would be a UHF/VHF/FM and the other would be a simple UHF only. I'm thinking, probably not..
What I really, really wish for would be that my various tuners could actually send a disque signal to the rotor and have it automatically aim the antenna according to the channel I select, just like the G-box to move to different satellites or my HH motor does for ku... The antenna rotor is in my junk room (formerly my crafts room) where I spend most of my time anyway but unless I'm in that room, I can't turn the antenna. Like if I'm in my bedroom and I want to watch Houston OTA I'll have to get up (grumble grumble), go to the other room, turn stuff on and fiddle with the remote for the antenna rotor then go crawl back under the covers and HOPE it works. Then if I want to go local again I have to get up AGAIN (grumble grumble) and play the game all over again. Being able to operate the antenna rotor from another room would be really nice. Oh well, I should be sleeping anyway.. But then again, the 3am to sunrise time frame is when my favorite shows come on thisTV. I'm really going to miss them from FTA. With my little MicroHD I can watch ANYTHING I want from bed and if there's nothing on I can push a button on the TV remote and goto to hdmi-1 and watch Dish Network, where there is never anything on any of the 250 channels at 4am.. I've got tons of channels but they rarely have anything on when I'm awake.
I love getting stuff on FTA because with a 10' C-band, it always, always comes in great. And when local stations re-broadcast stuff, they trash the picture with very low bit-rates, huge, ugly water marks (KPLC is really bad) and the inject awful local commercials of loud mouth, 4th rate ambulance chasing lawyers screaming at you. If I could get KPRC, that would be better than KPLC, their watermark isn't as intrusive and the PQ is better.
Getting a bigger antenna needs to be my next move I suppose.