I live in a townhouse and use a CM3010 with internal amp. Fixed position. Works great, except WMPT 22 comes in poorly.
I am moving about a mile away to a bi-level home with a few large trees, not many. 22015. The house sits about 50 feet or so lower than the townhouse. I'll need VHF, FM & UHF. Some local digital stations will revert to VHF at the transition. Most of the stations I want are in the 51-57 degree arc, about 15 or so miles away, same as at the townhouse, so a fixed position antenna might work fine. But I sometimes watch stations at 33 degrees or 230 degrees, about 7 & 14 miles away. These usually work reasonably well. Another station is 3 miles away at 283 degrees, and is of little interest to me.
But I am somewhat interested in the analog station WMPT channel 22 Annapolis, 40 miles away at 76 degrees, 5,000 kW. Hopefully they will up their digital station (42) power, currently at 150 kW, but right now it doesn't even show on antennaweb for me. And they list that as their full power. I'd love to pull that channel in. If I could pull in Hagerstown, that would be great, too. I consider MD public TV superior to VA public TV. But we're still talking about only an hour or 2 a week, 3 tops.
I've considered the CM3671 with 7777 & the CM rotor and 10 ft mast. But that is one massive antenna. Since we are moving to a new (1977) home, my wife will likely not object, but WAF is definitely important. I could consider a CM3677 or CM3679, with or without a rotor- or their Winegard equivalents. I figure I'd better improve on the CM3010, considering the house is lower, and maybe get analog 22 better.
Would any of these antennas likely pick up WMPT-DT, or at least WMPT analog? If that's not reasonably assured, then there's no point in my considering a rotor or huge antenna. The cost and trouble of rotors may be more than it's worth to get WMPT.
One other concern- my JVC HDTV scans for digital channels and will not allow you to enter a channel to add to the list. Not sure about the other ATSC tuners I have. So I'd have to scan in one direction for the bulk of the stations, and plan my antenna moves and maybe rescan. But I can just use the ATSC tuner in my Dish ViP622, which I think allows manual entry of channels. How do other people deal with this problem of needing to scan in channels many degrees apart?
I am moving about a mile away to a bi-level home with a few large trees, not many. 22015. The house sits about 50 feet or so lower than the townhouse. I'll need VHF, FM & UHF. Some local digital stations will revert to VHF at the transition. Most of the stations I want are in the 51-57 degree arc, about 15 or so miles away, same as at the townhouse, so a fixed position antenna might work fine. But I sometimes watch stations at 33 degrees or 230 degrees, about 7 & 14 miles away. These usually work reasonably well. Another station is 3 miles away at 283 degrees, and is of little interest to me.
But I am somewhat interested in the analog station WMPT channel 22 Annapolis, 40 miles away at 76 degrees, 5,000 kW. Hopefully they will up their digital station (42) power, currently at 150 kW, but right now it doesn't even show on antennaweb for me. And they list that as their full power. I'd love to pull that channel in. If I could pull in Hagerstown, that would be great, too. I consider MD public TV superior to VA public TV. But we're still talking about only an hour or 2 a week, 3 tops.
I've considered the CM3671 with 7777 & the CM rotor and 10 ft mast. But that is one massive antenna. Since we are moving to a new (1977) home, my wife will likely not object, but WAF is definitely important. I could consider a CM3677 or CM3679, with or without a rotor- or their Winegard equivalents. I figure I'd better improve on the CM3010, considering the house is lower, and maybe get analog 22 better.
Would any of these antennas likely pick up WMPT-DT, or at least WMPT analog? If that's not reasonably assured, then there's no point in my considering a rotor or huge antenna. The cost and trouble of rotors may be more than it's worth to get WMPT.
One other concern- my JVC HDTV scans for digital channels and will not allow you to enter a channel to add to the list. Not sure about the other ATSC tuners I have. So I'd have to scan in one direction for the bulk of the stations, and plan my antenna moves and maybe rescan. But I can just use the ATSC tuner in my Dish ViP622, which I think allows manual entry of channels. How do other people deal with this problem of needing to scan in channels many degrees apart?
