Reddit mentions of Mediasonic HD TV Outdoor Antenna Support 1080P 4K - 80 Miles Range Support UHF / VHF (HW-27UV)

Hi and welcome to NC. I'm in Raleigh, just up the road from Fuquay-Varina.

This UHF-VHF antenna works great in my attic, and I highly recommend it for the stations available here. It's quite small and I just have it tied to rafters. From Fuquay-Varina, most of the stations are ENE from you with the towers located between Garner and Clayton. I am about the same distance from the towers as you will be.

For some reason recently TVFool has left out two of our major stations - WRAL-5.1-NBC, and WRAZ-50.1, FOX. These should also be "Green" on the chart with very strong signals, so you should get all the major networks.

For this market, September 6 2019 is "Repacking day" so many of our local stations will be changing channels and in some cases upgrading their transmitter facilities. In one case, WNCN-17.1 is moving from physical channel 17 (UHF) to channel 8 (VHF), so you will definitely need a UHF-VHF antenna for good reception. The "Repacking" is as a result of reallocation of spectrum from TV to mobile phone service, part of the upcoming 5G transition.

Me: former broadcast engineer.

so bowtie antennas are for UHF.. they can sometimes pickup VHF but they are not designed to do that

any channel below 14 is VHF.. the lower the number the harder it is to get that station with all things being equal...

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the dipole for Channel 2 is about 9.5 feet wide to pickup one full VHF channel 2 wave

for VHF 7 and above the dipole has to be about 21 inches wide

for UHF 14 and above the dipole only has to be 8.5 inches wide

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so you get the idea.. there was a time when most stations moved to UHF because it was easier for most people and didn't require one of the large roof top antennas.

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but then Cellphone companies started buying up TV Spectrum and so far they have bought everything Channel 36 and above so now tv stations are forced to go to VHF or go off the air if they can't get a UHF station under 36

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so you are going in the wrong direction... that 8bay is going to give you amazing uhf reception and no VHF reception.

you could try an antenna like this

https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-HOMEWORX-HDTV-Outdoor-Antenna/dp/B01C1YL16Y

its a high vhf antenna.. they also sell similar ones at HomeDepot

but VHF antennas are directional and you have 2 directions for your tv towers

so trying to get ABC and NBC is going to probably lose you Telemundo and TBN .. which you say fine but those networks might also broadcast other stations on their signal.. my spanish network also broadcasts quest which I like.. but I havent been able to receive Quest or Fox from Philly for a month now or more idk something is screwing up

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its just something to keep in mind

I've ordered this one and I'm also going to go pick up that GE one you mentioned. I'll try them both and let the best one win.

I'm really hoping I just got a defective antenna and one of these two will do the trick.

What are you're thoughts on this one? Should I avoid cheaping out?

My mother lives in Fairview Park and to pull in CBS we needed to put a small antenna in her attic. The leaf type of antenna would not pull it in. I put this one in and just zip tied it to her rafters. https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-HOMEWORX-HDTV-Outdoor-Antenna/dp/B01C1YL16Y/ref=pd_sim_23_5?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01C1YL16Y&pd_rd_r=YQ9JFA6ZRSBMV86KXRG7&pd_rd_w=HgQO9&pd_rd_wg=JjU80&psc=1&refRID=YQ9JFA6ZRSBMV86KXRG7

Thanks for the suggestion. Just looked at the antenna's pics, and I don't think it will work in the location where the dish was mounted. The boom looks like it's 13' long, with 4-5' on the back side. the mount is about a foot from the side of the house. I think I need something like this style to physical fit in the area:

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