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NastyDom
09-14-2004, 08:04 PM
Hey All, I live in St Pete Beach, is there a site or program to let me know what is the best positioning for my OTA. The last storm knocked it down. I can get some good then not others and visa versa. I heard there was a prorgam/site that I could plug in my address and get the best positioning for all stations.

TIA

Nasty aka Mike C.

Dknow
09-14-2004, 08:37 PM
http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/Address.aspx

Floyd
09-14-2004, 11:11 PM
If you only have one UHF/VHF antenna it should be pointed more or less East to Boyette, which is just south of Riverview.
If you have a two antenna setup, like a bay area special, then the main antenna points East, and the ch10 antenna points to Tarpon Springs, or North of you.
The standard bay area special antenna comes with a VHF ch 10 antenna which should also pick up enough UHF-24 to get the CBS HD signal that is co-located on the ch 10 tower. If not, and all you really want is the HD signal, then you could probably substitute a small UHF antenna for the larger standard VHF ch 10 antenna. I don't know how the antenna coupling would match on the main antenna though, but there is a second set of wing-nut connectors for the auxilliary antenna.