I just built the popular youtube coat hanger bow tie antenna to use for my new tv tuner in my pc when i go away to college in a few weeks. Where i am now, a store bought antenna that my brother loaned me wasnt able to pick up anything. But the home brew one was able to hit a pbs station 13.9 miles away at 70-80% and thats all it can get. (note i do live in a fringe area that is EXTREMELY hilly, more precisely in a valley). At School i will live in the dorms about 3 stories up. my room faces north and mounting outside isn't possible.
Here is the antenna web result for my location at school ...
* yellow
vhf WTHI-DT 10.1 CBS TERRE HAUTE, IN Feb 17, 2009 (post-transition) 179° 15.8 10
yellow
uhf WFXW 38 FOX TERRE HAUTE, IN 182° 16.5 38
* yellow
uhf WFXW-DT 39.1 FOX TERRE HAUTE, IN 181° 16.6 39
* yellow
uhf WTWO-DT 36.1 NBC TERRE HAUTE, IN 181° 15.9 36
* yellow
uhf WTHI-DT 10.1 CBS TERRE HAUTE, IN 179° 0.4 24
yellow
vhf WTHI 10 CBS TERRE HAUTE, IN 179° 15.8 10
green
vhf WTWO 2 NBC TERRE HAUTE, IN 181° 15.9 2
red
uhf W43BV 43 TBN TERRE HAUTE, IN 319° 3.1 43
blue
uhf WICD 15 ABC SPRINGFIELD, IL 330° 49.3 15
violet
vhf WTTV 4 CW BLOOMINGTON, IN 96° 67.1 4
so in short i want to know realistickly if i have a chance of picking up good quality DTV signals in my concrete box room or if im wasting my time tweaking this thing. I have my doubts since the only signal i can pull in here at home is 13.9 miles away. but i am in a valley and i am facing west.
any advice would be greatly appreciated.
