New To HD - Meno Falls

[DBL]

Looking for some recomendations, I just purchased a
Sony KDF50WE655 LCD HD TV with dual tuners.
I have direct TV with TIVO and have no plans to upgrade to HD Direct tv until local stations are offered. So that being said , I would like to connect the Sat to one tuner and a OTA ant to the other. According to the TV manual this can be done.

Here is the question any recomendations for an Indoor Ant. Or an Attic mounted Ant. ?
Prefer indoor (less work)

Location MENO Falls 2 story home (TV Located on first floor)
East of Pilgrim Between Appleton and Goodhope Road

Thank you For your help as the new TV arrives in a day or so and I was just trying to get my wiring complete before it came.

[Gregg Lengling]

There are lots of different antennas you can use. I use an 8-Bay BowTie and you probably will have good luck with either a 4 or 8 in the attic. However your mileage may vary when trying to receive the low power stations on digital such as Fox and CBS.

For the Directv input, you set has 3 S-Video inputs and if your Directv box has S-Video output I would use that first rather than using RF to go into channel 2 or 3. If you don't have S-Video on the box use the Composite audio (analog) to feed it. You'll have a much better picture using S or Composite versus RF.

Welcome to the group.

[Den Mayer]

I agree that a good attic antenna is a UHF 4 bay bow tie...

or an 8 bay if you have 'twice the width' room....

Note that most Milwaukee HD transmissions are UHF...

THe Channel Master 3021 4 bay ($25) covers UHF chans 14

thru 59+ very well, VHF chans 7 thru 13 Good, and

Poor for VHF chans 2 thru 6.... Low Power FOX-HD

might force you to an 8 bay bow tie unit ??

As for antenna cable, use dual shielded RG-6 rather

than RG-59... For antenna aiming, I hope you have

few home obstructions or features to the East...


Congratulations on your Sony HDTV purchase...

[Chinatown]

Where can you buy that antenna?

[StarvingForHDTV]

Originally posted by Chinatown
Where can you buy that antenna?

http://www.warrenelectronics.com/antennas/chmaster_ant.htm